Berdukacita menerima perkhabaran mengenai kebakaran di Taman Desa Tambun yang meragut tiga nyawa daripada sebuah keluarga. Salam takziah saya zahirkan kepada seluruh ahli keluarga mangsa atas kehilangan ini.
Saya telah meminta saudara Mohamad Hairul Amir Sabri mewakili saya menziarahi keluarga mangsa serta menyampaikan sumbangan bagi meringankan beban mereka.
Pusat Khidmat Rakyat Parlimen Tambun juga telah diarahkan untuk membantu segala urusan dan keperluan keluarga, termasuk penempatan sementara, manakala pihak ICU akan membuat penilaian bagi menyegerakan bantuan baik pulih kediaman.
Semoga roh mereka yang terkorban dicucuri rahmat dan seluruh keluarga dikurniakan kekuatan serta ketabahan menghadapi ujian yang amat berat ini.
Al-Fatihah.
Alhamdulillah. Buku terbaru saya, Geopolitik Dunia Islam kini dibuka untuk jualan.
Buku ni akan bawa korang menyelami sejarah dan isu semasa umat Islam dari lensa geopolitik (betul-betul "geo" punya).
Ada 30 bab semuanya, dan setiap bab akan menjawab satu persoalan besar:
A sad thing happened in Japan
An 11-year-old boy named Yuki was reported missing in Kyoto.
His stepfather was out on the streets, handing flyers to neighbors, asking for help finding him.
This week, that same stepfather was arrested.
He has reportedly told police he “lost his temper and strangled” Yuki, then dumped the body in a mountain forest.
The boy’s mother, by every account, believed him until the end.
This is where most people will stop reading, and this is exactly where the harder conversation should start.
Japan has a quiet, persistent problem that rarely makes it into the English-language conversation about this country: children living with stepfathers or their mother’s new partners are overrepresented in serious child abuse cases.
In Japan, when child abuse crosses into criminal prosecution, around 72% of offenders are “father figures” — and within that group, over a third are stepfathers, adoptive fathers, or the mother’s live-in boyfriend.
Given that stepfamilies make up only around 7% of marriages in Japan, that share is not small.
Child welfare data tells a similar story, case after case — sustained beatings, torture, sexual abuse, disposal of bodies.
It is not that stepfathers are monsters. Most are not.
It is that a country that treats family as a private black box — where divorce still carries stigma, where mothers are often financially cornered into remarrying, where schools and neighbors are trained not to intrude — systematically fails to see the children inside those homes until it is far too late.
Yuki’s mother handed out flyers next to the man who now says he killed her son.
Japan just began allowing joint custody this month, after decades of delay.
But the harder reforms — mandatory home visits, real authority for child welfare workers, serious screening around non-biological caregivers — are still stuck.
This is not an abstract policy argument. It is the difference between an 11-year-old going to school next week, and an 11-year-old becoming a headline.
Rest in peace, Yuki.
🚨 BREAKING
IRGC Missile Command:
"We announce the end of all targeting restrictions. We will strike infrastructure in a manner that will deprive the United States and regional countries of oil and gas resources for years to come.
Orders have been transmitted to local missile bases, and operations will begin immediately."
Interesting how wars are named after the country attacked: Vietnam War, Iraq War, Afghanistan War, Iran War... That's because if they were named after the attacker, it would be too confusing, since 80% of conflicts would be called the US war.
Harga minyak naik. Namun, kos untuk menggerakkan minyak itu dari sumbernya ke Malaysia turut melonjak, dalam beberapa kes, lebih tinggi daripada kenaikan harga minyak itu sendiri. Ini gambaran penuh yang perlu difahami.
KEMASKINI
BANDUAN PALESTIN KINI DIBIARKAN MATI
Video dari banduan Palestin di Gaza yang dibebaskan IDF menyatakan bahawa semua banduan Palestin dalam Penjara Israel kini dalam bahaya kerana Warden Penjara Israel tidak lagi beri keselesaan, makanan, air dan tidak lagi menguruskan banduan Palestin. Ada yabg sakit tidak diberi rawatan langsung dan dibiarkan mati . Dia meminta agar semua orang terus bercakap mengenai nasib banduan Palestin dalam Penjara Israel
Israeli MK Limor Son Har Melech announces the passing of the death penalty for Palestinian hostages with tears of joy in her eyes.
There is a deep sickness here.