Juan dela Cruz

I used to watch Juan dela Cruz on TV but since I started working, I have not seen any episode.  Last night, my mother told me about a post she read that condemns the use of Muslim names among the aswang characters in the TV show. I goggled and found this.

Teleseryeng Juan dela Cruz, Anti-Islam

https://www.facebook.com/abscbnNEWS/posts/10151614337010168

Ako ay nananawagan sa lahat ng Muslim sa Pilipinas na kondenahin ang ABS CBN at lalong higit sa lahat ang Direktor, Scriptwriter at Producer ng Teleseryeng Juan dela Cruz.

Sa mga nagdaan at kasalukuyang takbo ng istorya, ang Haring Aswang na si Samuel Alejandro ay walang pakundangang tinatawag at binabanggit ang mga Islamikong pangalan na OMAR, ABDUL, at MIKAEL (or Mikal - Angel Michael)

Lumalabas na ang plot ng teleseryang ito ay digmaan sa pag-itan ng mga Kristiyano sa pangunguna ni Juan dela Cruz laban sa mga aswang na pinamumunuan ng Haring Aswang na si Samuel Alejandro, lumilitaw na ang mga alagad at tauhan ng Haring Aswang ay pawang mga pangalang Muslim.

Batid natin na ang Omar ay pangalang Muslim lalo pat ito ay pangalan ng isang matapang, matuwid, matapat at iginaglang na Khalifa ng Islam na si Omar Ibn Kattab (radialahu anhu). 

Ang Mikael (Mikal) ay pangalan ng isang malakas na anghel na si anghel Michael na anghel na tagapagpaulan.

Ang Abdul ay nanggaling sa salitang Arabic na ‘Abd’ na ang ibig sabihin ay ALIPIN. Ito ay sinusundan ng pangngalang pangtangi ni Allah at ng Kaniyang mga Sifat (katangian) kagaya ng:
Abdull’Allah (Abdullah - alipin ni Allah)
Abdul ( r ) rahim, (alipin ng Maawain)
Abdul ( r) rahman, (alipn ng Mahabagin)
Abdul Malik (alipin ng Hari)
Abdul Gani (alipin ng Mayaman)
Abdul Jabbar, Abdul Mu’min, Abdul Aziz, Abdul Fattah, Abdul Mannan, Abdul (s) Salam at lahat ng 99 na asma wa sifat (pangalan at katangian) ni Allah.

Ang Abdul, kalian man ay hindi maaaring gamitin o iakibat sa kahit na sinong nilalang kagaya halimbawa ng Abdul Haring Aswang, Abdul Samuel Alejandro…. Sapagkat si Abdul sa teleseryeng ito ay taga sunod ni Samuel Alejandro.

Ang pangalang Abdul ay sagrado ito ay tawag o ngalan tangi sa taong sumusunod, sumusuko at tumatalima lamang kay Allah, hindi alipin ng isang nilalang na may kakaibang kapangyarihan, malahalimaw na hitsura na makikita sa katauhan ng Haring Aswang. 

Batid natin na ito ay kuwento at kathang isip lamang subalit hindi dapat na gamitin ang mga pangalang ito sa ganitong uri ng kuwento, kung hindi rin lamang ang istorya ay patungkol o tumatalakay sa istoryang may temang pang Islamiko. Kaya naman, ito ay tantos na paglapastangan kay Allah (azza wa jal) at sa relihiyong Islam.

Sa palabas na ito, ang hitsura, kasuotan ni Abdul ay hindi maipagkakailang larawan ng isang Muslim na mandirigmang aswang at alipin ni Samuel Alejandro. Kailan man ang mga Muslim ay hindi naniniwala sa ganitong uring nilikha. 

Oo ngat ang istoryang ito ay isang Mitolohiya at walang basehan, ngunit ang pagkakasangkot ng mga pangalang Muslim ay mariin kong kinokondena na maaaring maging dahilan ng pagkakaligaw ng maling paniniwala at maaaring sa murang isipan ng mga batang manonood na ang mga Muslim bago pa dumating ang mga Kastila ay nilikha ng diwatang si Feruha at ginawang mga aswang.

Ako ay nananawagan sa ating mga Ulama at maging sa mga kagaya kong tagapagturo at tagapagpalaganap ng Islam na kondenahin ang palabas at tutulan ang patuloy na paggamit ng mga pangalang Muslim. Kalampagin at papanagutin ang pamunuan ng ABS CBN, dahil ito ay isang diskriminasyon at kabastusan, insulto sa ating pan iniwala bilang mga Muslim.

Kung hindi ito mabibigyang pansin at ipagsasawalang bahala patuloy na yuyurakan ng mga Kufar na ito ang ating pananampalataya at karapatan bilang isang Muslim.

Hangad ko na bibigyang pansin ninyo ang panawagang ito.

Eisa Batallones 
Islamic Teacher, Propagator & Writer
Al Malha Jizan KSA
Attention: MTRCB, ABS CBN, MGA MUSLIM

     

CDO Chicken Longganisa...

 ....is HALAL! Finally, a Halal longganisa in the supermarket.

Blog

I started this blog while I was in Riyadh. I was so bored I thought of blogging. Apparently, I was not bored enough to keep posting :D

I had a lot of drafts but I never got to post them. I deleted some of those drafts and posted old and new ones, and even started posting photos..

I only had 14 posts since 2011! And my blog has 1131 pageviews since then. I had visitors from all over the world. That's amazing.

My entry about ISCAG has the most pageview. InshaAllah my blog had helped our brothers and sisters. I hope to visit ISCAG again, with my husband and our daughter.

May be this year I'd be able to post more and share more. InshaAllah.

The Cat

In June 2011, my husband and I were in Makkah to perform Umrah. We finished before daybreak and stayed around. While waiting for prayer, we saw this cat. And a lot others noticed, too. 

Holiday

I read from the news that the Philippines is the only Christian country in the world to declare Eid ul-Fitr as a regular holiday. 

Stereotyping Muslims
BY CMFR | 11 MAY 2012

JEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for a front page photo caption that stereotyped Muslims, and Muslim women particularly, last May 9.

The paper published a photograph of President Benigno S. Aquino III shaking hands with an unidentified Muslim woman in a burqa. The photo caption read: “SECURITY RISK? President Aquino greets a Muslim woman wrapped in a burka andniqab during the oath-taking of officers in charge of the ARMM Regional Legislative Assembly held in Malacañang on Tuesday. The unidentified woman is reportedly a relative of one of the officers.” (emphasis by PJR Reports)

The Inquirer did not explain why a woman wearing a burqa (“a long, loose garment covering the whole body, worn in public by many Muslim women” as defined by the 2005 New Oxford American Dictionary) and niqab (“a veil for covering the hair and face except for the eyes that is worn by some Muslim women” according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary) should be considered a security risk.

In the online posting of the photo, the Inquirer had  “PALACE GUEST” for caption instead of “SECURITY RISK?”

The offending caption was in violation of two provisions in “the Canons of Good Taste for Journalists” of the Inquirer’s own Stylebook: A Manual of Style and Usage for Editors, Writers, Reporters and Students:

• “6.2. Avoid language that perpetuates racial stereotypes or is offensive to certain races.”
• “6.3 Avoid language that denigrates certain religions.”

The caption is also in violation of existing journalism codes of ethics, among them:

• “I shall not in any manner ridicule, cast aspersions on, or degrade any person by reason of sex, creed, religious belief, political conviction, cultural or ethnic origin.” (Filipino Journalist’s Code of Ethics, Article VII)
•  “I shall avoid stereotyping and represent reality without personal bias to race, creed, sex and religious, political and cultural beliefs.” (Philippine Center for Photojournalism, number 3)
• “Be complete and provide context when photographing or recording subjects. Avoid stereotyping individuals and groups. Recognize and work to avoid presenting one’s own biases in the work. (The National Press Photographers Association, USA)
• “In mixed societies, editors should be aware of the danger of feeding by selective reporting, common prejudicial stereotypes about groups. Generalizations based on the behavior of an individual or a small number of individuals are invariably unjust.” (Reporting Ethnic Tensions, number 3, Press Foundation of Asia)

Media groups National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) and Philippine Center for Photojournalism (PCP)justifiably criticized the caption.

It was “disturbing that the paper cleared such a blatantly bigoted caption, especially after the firestorm of criticism it reaped in the wake of the Demetrio Vicente fiasco, when PDI ran a series of unflattering photos of the stroke victim when he appeared at the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona and labeled it ‘Character witness’,” the NUJP said in a statement.

The Inquirer published a set of photos of a Corona defense witness Demetrio Vicente on its March 14 front page that CMFR found to be unflattering at least and malicious at most.

The PCP described the caption as “uncalled for, insensitive and even libelous.”

“We believe labeling a dress a security risk does not take into account the nuances of the Islamic culture. It is also an affront to the minority Muslim population of this country that a symbol of Muslim culture is labeled outright a security risk and further fuels the stereotyping of our Muslim brothers as terrorists,” said a letter to the paper signed by PCP chairman Fernando Sepe Jr.

The Inquirer apologized on May 11  and published the NUJP statement and PCP letter.  But the apology appeared at the same time as a front-page report which said that Malacañang had no policy on women wearing the burqa, and recalled an incident in the United States during which, for allegedly heckling US President Barack Obama,  a woman in a burqa was removed from a place where  Obama was speaking. A sidebar explained that the burqa is banned in some countries. The article and sidebar tended to suggest that while it was apologizing for the offending caption, the Inquirer was nevertheless justifying what it did.

SOURCE: http://www.cmfr-phil.org/2012/05/11/stereotyping-muslims/

Halal Manila

I just want to share with you Halal Manila, a Facebook page I found when I googled for Halal food and Halal meat in Metro Manila.

When I became a Muslim, I gave up a lot of favorite food because they have become haram - no more sharks fin, siomai, tocino, longganisa, fiesta ham, and siopao.

I do not even buy chicken longganisa or tocino in the local market or grocery.

So I was excited when I browsed through Halal Manila's Wall and saw the products they sell.

I sent them a message and gave my number. In less than an hour, I got a call and referred me to a Halal Manila dealer near my place. The following day, I got my orders and my family had chicken longganisa for breakfast. It was cheap, tasty and above all, halal.

Here were my orders.

Chicken Balls Php 150/pack (Halal Manila photo)

Chicken Longganisa Php 120/pack (Halal Manila photo)

Beef Tapa Php 120/pack (Halal Manila photo)

They also sell embutido, chicken nugggets, siopao, raw meat, and more. They even sell sweets. Isn't that nice? I'm going to try more of their products soon. InshaAllah.

May Allah (SWT) bless them.

" Your Food is Our Concern." - Halal Manila 
For Your Halal Meat Delivery .:
contact us.: 09199917467 - 09175215594 - 09328771488
Telephone . : 4288026.

Visit Halal Manila at https://www.facebook.com/HalalManila