jabatan tetap: abdullah dan khalifah

Jabatan duniawi silih berganti, namun jabatan tetap (artinya juga kewajiban kita yang terus melekat) adalah sebagai abdullah sekaligus khalifah.

jangan panggil anak kita: "adik"

Barusan saya bertemu dengan ayah seorang mahasiswa yang kuliah di tempat saya. Kami mendiskusikan anaknya yang sangat nyaris DO. Anaknya lali-laki. Bapak tadi bercerita sang anak beberapa kali pindah kuliah. Dia tidak bodoh. Salah satu problem utamanya, menurut psikolog yang ditemui bapak tadi adalah sang anak terlalu dimanja utamanya oleh ibunya. Hingga kelas 6 SD saat sekolah dia ditunggui ibunya. Dan sehari-hari anak itu hingga sekarang (usianya saat ini 27 tahun) panggilannya adalah "adik", karena dia adalah anak bungsu. Saya pikir, juga dari kasus lain serupa yang saya temui sebaiknya kita jangan memanggil "adik" ke anak kita. Panggil saja mereka dengan namanya.

The Jews Face a Double Standard

Ini pendapat seorang tokoh Yahudi. Saya posting dulu, nanti pengin saya komentari.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123137495711862883.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
8 Januari 2009

The Jews Face a Double Standard
Why doesn't Israel have the same right to self-defense as other nations?

The world-wide protests against Israel's ground incursion into Gaza are so full of hatred that they leave me with the terrible feeling that these protests have little to do with the so-called disproportionality of the Israeli response to Hamas rockets, or the resulting civilian casualties.

My fear is that the rage we see in the protesters marching in the streets is far more profound and dangerous than we would like to believe. There are a great many people in the world who, even after Auschwitz, just can't bear the Jewish state having the same rights they so readily grant to other nations. These voices insist Israel must take risks they would never dare ask of any other nation-state -- risks that threaten its very survival -- because they don't believe Israel should exist in the first place.

Just look at the spate of attacks this week on Jews and Jewish institutions around the world: a car ramming into a synagogue in France; a Chabad menorah and Jewish-owned shops sprayed with swastikas in Belgium; a banner at an Australian rally demanding "clean the earth from dirty Zionists!"; demonstrators in the Netherlands chanting "Gas the Jews"; and in Florida, protestors demanding Jews "Go back to the ovens!"

How else can we explain the double-standard that is applied to the Gaza conflict, if not for a more insidious bias against the Jewish state?

At the U.N., no surprise, this double-standard is in full force. In response to Israel's attack on Hamas, the Security Council immediately pulled an all-night emergency meeting to consider yet another resolution condemning Israel. Have there been any all-night Security Council sessions held during the seven months when Hamas fired 3,000 rockets at half a million innocent civilians in southern Israel? You can be certain that during those seven months, no midnight oil was burning at the U.N. headquarters over resolutions condemning terrorist organizations like Hamas. But put condemnation of Israel on the agenda and, rain or shine, it's sure to be a full house.

Red Cross officials are all over the Gaza crisis, describing it as a full-blown humanitarian nightmare. Where were they during the seven months when tens of thousands of Israeli families could not sleep for fear of a rocket attack? Where were their trauma experts to decry that humanitarian crisis?

There have been hundreds of articles and reports written from the Erez border crossing falsely accusing Israel of blocking humanitarian supplies from reaching beleaguered Palestinians in Gaza. (In fact, over 520 truck loads of humanitarian aid have been delivered through Israeli crossings since the beginning of the Israeli counterattack.) But how many news articles, NGO reports and special U.N. commissions have investigated Hamas's policy of deliberately placing rocket launchers near schools, mosques and homes in order to use innocent Palestinians as human shields?

Many people ask why there are so few Israeli casualties in comparison with the Palestinian death toll. It's because Israel's first priority is the safety of its citizens, which is why there are shelters and warning systems in Israeli towns. If Hamas can dig tunnels, it can certainly build shelters. Instead, it prefers to use women and children as human shields while its leaders rush into hiding.

And then there are the clarion calls for a cease-fire. These words, which come so easily, have proven to be a recipe for disaster. Hamas uses the cease-fire as a time-out to rearm and smuggle even more deadly weapons so the next time, instead of hitting Sderot and Ashkelon, they can target Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

The pattern is always the same. Following a cease-fire brought on by international pressure, there will be a call for a massive infusion of funds to help Palestinians recover from the devastation of the Israeli attack. The world will respond eagerly, handing over hundreds of millions of dollars. To whom does this money go? To Hamas, the same terrorist group that brought disaster to the Palestinians in the first place.

The world seems to have forgotten that at the end of World War II, President Harry Truman initiated the Marshall Plan, investing vast sums to rebuild Germany. But he did so only with the clear understanding that the money would build a new kind of Germany -- not a Fourth Reich that would continue the policies of Adolf Hitler. Yet that is precisely what the world will be doing if we once again entrust funds to Hamas terrorists and their Iranian puppet masters.

In less than two weeks, Barack Obama will be sworn in as president of the United States. But there is no "change we can believe in" in the Middle East -- not where Israel is concerned. The double-standard continuously applied to the Jewish state proves that, for much of the world, the real lessons of World War II have yet to be learned.

Mr. Hier, a rabbi, is the founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and its Museum of Tolerance.

A satanic, genocidal Israel

from palestine-info

Hamas spokesman Abu Ubaida said in a speech on Monday: "We have prepared for you, Zionists, thousands of tough fighters who are waiting for you in every street, every alley and at every house, and they will meet you with iron and fire."

KOMITE INDONESIA UNTUK SOLIDARITAS PALESTINA ( K I S P A )

http://www.kispa.org

viva Palestine, viva justice

Mahmud Abbas

Negaranya diserang, namun Mahmud Abbas yang mengaku presiden hanya mengutuk. Tanpa tindakan militer apapun.

victims of Zionist Israel brutality & stupidity

Psioterapis Corrie Vaw Wijk dari Belanda yang bekerja untuk sukarelawan Palang Merah Internasional memberi perawatan kepada gadis Palestina, Jamela Habbash (15), yang kehilangan kaki akibat serangan misil Israel pekan lalu di Rumah Sakit Al-Shifa, Gaza, Kamis (8/1-2009). --Kompas--

Israel is a terrorist state

Ya Allah hancurkan tentara zionis Israel.

Zionis Israel adalah perampas tanah Palestina dan pembantai anak-anak

Zionist Israel is a land robber and Palestinian children's butcher.

pandangan orang Israel

Baca salah satu pandangan orang Israel. Baca juga komentar2 atas artikel tersebut.

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/saul_singer/2009/01/israels_moral_high_ground.html

Warna merah dan huruf diperbesar oleh saya. (arif)
Israel's Moral High Ground
Saul Singer
Jerusalem, Israel
Saul Singer is Editorial Page Editor and author of the weekly column “Interesting Times” for the Jerusalem Post.

The Current Discussion: What's the most likely outcome of the Gaza invasion? A wider war? A Hamas defeat? Just more of the same?

Rather than make a prediction, I would like to address the rampant moral confusion regarding the Israel-Hamas war. Here is something from an email sent out by Isaac Luria of J Street, a left-wing Jewish group that claims to be pro-Israel, but also reflects a lot of thinking by journalists and well-meaning people:

Israel has a special place in my heart. I lived there last year while my wife was studying to be a rabbi. But I recognize that neither Israelis nor Palestinians have a monopoly on right or wrong. While there is nothing "right" in raining rockets on Israeli families or dispatching suicide bombers, there is nothing "right" in punishing a million and a half already-suffering Gazans for the actions of the extremists among them.

The equation of the actions of Hamas and Israel is disgusting. But take Jews and Israel out of it. Imagine terrorist group A attacking country B, where A is trying to maximize civilian casualties on both sides and B is trying to minimize civilian casualties on both sides. What sort of moral judgment would have trouble distinguishing between the two?

The Palestinian victims of this war know better. Watch this video, broadcast on Palestinian TV, no less, of a girl whose 4-year-old sister died next to her in their home. She says, "Hamas is the cause, in the first place, of all wars." Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said he pleaded with Hamas "don't stop the ceasefire, the ceasefire must continue and not stop, in order to avoid what has happened, and if only we had avoided it." Hamas openly justifies using women and children as human shields, and is likely at this moment hiding and shooting at Israelis from hospitals and mosques.

By taking on Hamas, Israelis deserve the gratitude of decent people everywhere. More than that, by sending in troops to fight them on the ground, Israel is risking its precious soldiers to minimize Palestinian casualties. These soldiers risk becoming martyrs to human rights and the Geneva Convention because they are fighting in places where other countries, including the U.S., might have called in an artillery or air strike and been done with it. We should be proud of them and least have the decency to honor their sacrifice.

Finally, these soldiers are doing a service for humanity, not just for the Israelis. A defeat of Hamas is a defeat of it sponsor, Iran. It is no substitute for using economic, diplomatic, and - only if necessary - military means to prevent Iran, the world's primary terrorist regime, from going nuclear. But it should help concentrate minds regarding the necessity of doing so. The Israeli wars with Hamas and Hezbullah are only holding actions. The only way to give peace in the region real hope is to defeat the main source of war and terrorism, and that is the regime in Tehran.

moralitas: israel - hamas

Ada yang mengatakan israel bermoral karena setiap kali hendak menghancurkan sasaran tentara Israel menelpon dulu ke penduduk sipil agar menjauh.

Sebenarnya Hamas juga telah menyampaikan hal serupa: seluruh penduduk israel agar meninggalkan tanah yang dirampas secara ilegal, kalau tidak mau kena serangan roketnya!

Gaza

Nyawa muslim tidak ada harganya.
Kita bagai buih.

melatih vocabulary

melatih vocabulary bhs Inggris al. bisa dengan Google Image Labeler.

sayang lemparannya meleset

"This is a farewell kiss, you dog. This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq."
Muntadar al-Zeidi

kita sudah mengambil nomor giliran dipanggil

Ada seseorang.
Masih muda.
Badannya segar.
Suatu hari didiagnosa dokter: sakit kanker.
Tiga pekan kemudian meninggal.

Hari ini, badan kita segar.
Semoga usia kita dipanjangkan. Berdoa dan berikhtiar.
Semoga sisa umur kita bermanfaat.

Namun yang pasti, sejak hari pertama lahir kita sudah mengambil nomor giliran dipanggil.
Entah kapan.

Komputerisasi pengetahuan keislaman (khususnya al Quran)

Saat hendak full time ke dunia akademis, saya bermimpi nanti ingin intens dalam bidang "komputerisasi pengetahuan keislaman", ada lab khusus tentang itu... Ini bidang yang multi displin (baik intern ilmu komputer, maupun dengan disipilin diluar ilmu komputer) Namun ternyata sangat sulit bagi saya, karena al. multidisplin itu, salah satunya karena saya sudah lambat masuk ke dunia akademis (hampir kepala 4 baru full time).

Saya sudah menawarkan ke teman2, ada juga yang cukup berminat namu belum tindak lanjut..
Juga masjid kampus sebenarnya bisa sebagai "koordinator"... ini juga sudah saya lontarkan ke pengurus masjid.

Barusan saya terpikir lagi salah satu pekerjaan terkait komputerisasi al Quran. Dalam computional lingustics ada proyek pembangunan corpus dengan anotasi2 peran semantik spt misalkan PropBank. Saya pikir kita akan sangat terbantu kalau al Quran, hadits dll diberi anotasi, baik itu peran semantik seperti PropBank itu atau yang lain. Nanti aplikasinya cukup banyak. Ini butuh waktu lama, dan terus menerus.

Resepsi pernikahan: salut untuk Aa Gym

[gb dari jawapos]


Aa Gym Mantu, Disuguhi Bakso Tahu
http://www.surya.co.id/web/Berita-Utama/Aa-Gym-Mantu-Disuguhi-Bakso-Tahu.html

Monday, 24 November 2008

Sekarang musim pesohor menikah jor-joran. Tetapi Abdullah Gymnastiar (Aa Gym) menabrak kebiasaan itu. Saat menikahkan anak perempuannya, Ghaida Tsurayya, 20, dengan Harpinadi Ihram, 24, justru konsep sederhana yang dibuat Aa Gym. Dia ingin memberikan contoh jika pernikahan tidak mesti dirayakan dengan glamor.

Sebenarnya pernikahan ini akan berlangsung setelah Aa Gym menjalankan ibadah haji. Namun untuk efisiensi, maka resepsi dilakukan Minggu (23/11). “Pernikahan ini kami buat sederhana begitu pun makanannya. Ada 22 gerai para pedagang kaki lima,” tutur Aa Gym sehari sebelum menikahkan anaknya, Sabtu (22/11).

Benar saja, saat resepsi berlangsung di Gedung Central V Komplek Pesantren Darrut Tauhiid, para pedagang kaki lima yang biasa mangkal di Gegerkalong diusung.

Makanan yang disajikan adalah makanan rakyat seperti bakso tahu, kue-kue, hingga tutug oncom. Makanan untuk para pejabat dan tamu undangan lainnya tidak akan dibedakan. Semua pedagang melengkapi diri dengan nama menu dan identitas pedagang.

Meski dikemas sederhana, masyarakat yang ingin menjadi saksi pernikahan itu sangat banyak. Menurut pantauan Tribun Jabar yang satu grup dengan Surya, diperkirakan sekitar 2.000 orang datang. Ini membuat Jalan Gegerkalong sempat tertutup padahal Aa Gym sudah berpesan agar tak perlu menutup jalan.

Selama akad nikah, mempelai pria dan wanita dipisahkan. Harpinadi Ihram duduk di depan berhadapan dengan Aa Gym, petugas KUA, dan Ustad Yusuf Mansyur yang menjadi wali nikah Harpinadi. Mempelai wanita, Ghaida duduk di belakang Harpinadi dengan jarak kurang lebih empat meter. Ghaida didampingi oleh ibunya, Ninih Muthmainnah yang sering disapa Teh Ninih, istri pertama Aa Gym.

Tempat duduk para tamu dibagi dua dan dipisahkan sekat. Sebelah kanan untuk laki-laki dan sebelah kiri untuk perempuan. Acara resepsi juga dibagi menjadi dua sesi. Pukul 10.00-12.00 WIB untuk undangan Aa Gym dan pihak besan. Pukul 12.00-15.00 WIB waktu untuk teman-teman Harpinadi dan Ghaida.

Ghaida dan Harpinadi yang bekerja di Jogjakarta, bertemu empat bulan lalu ketika umroh. Setelah menikah, mereka akan tinggal di Bandung.

Tampak di antara undangan Menpora Adhyaksa Dault, Hadad Alwi, dan Syam Bimbo. Tetapi Alfarini Eridani, istri kedua Aa Gym, tidak tampak hingga resepsi berakhir. Menurut kabar, dia tak datang karena tak bisa meninggalkan bayinya yang baru dilahirkan beberapa minggu. tribun jabar/krisdiantoro

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tambahan dari Kompas:

http://www.kompas.com/read/xml/2008/11/23/20372172/pernikahan.putri.pertama.aa.gym.menyedot.perhatian

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Para tamu udangan disuguhi nyanyian religi kelompok musik Ummy Maqtum Voice, yang semua anggotanya tunanetra. Aa Gym tampak sangat menikmati lagu-lagu mereka yang menyetuh hati. Beberapa kali ia tampak kaget ketika tamunya hendak berjabat tangan. Ada banyak menu pilihan di sana. Mulai dari mie kocok, sate padang, batagor Bandung, pem pek sampai es krim

Dekonstruksi Sistem Kekuatan Keuangan Dunia: Analisis dari sudut pandang lain.

http://wakalasauqi.blogspot.com/2008/11/dekonstruksi-sistem-kekuatan-keuangan.html