Serious It's Official! Drugs Are Now Like Pork! Haram!

[JohnTan]

The battle against the drug scourge in the Malay/Muslim community has been taken to all 71 mosques in Singapore, with imams delivering an anti-drug message yesterday during Friday prayers.

This follows last Sunday's launch of the Dadah Itu Haram (Drugs Are Forbidden) campaign at the Sultan Mosque.

Malays account for more than half of the drug abusers arrested last year, up from 32 per cent in 2006.


The sermon, titled The Well-being Of The Community: Drug Abuse Is Haram, urged the jemaah (congregation) not to be "passive about the problem".

"This is a (drug) problem that requires cooperation from all groups, at all levels, in order for us to successfully tackle the issue," stated excerpts of the sermon prepared by the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis).


"This is because every life is precious, and every youth carries with him the hope of the community."

Muis initiated the anti-drug message "as a follow-up to the Dadah Itu Haram campaign", a spokesman for the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) told The Straits Times.

Mr Marof Khan, 47, who was at Kampung Delta Mosque yesterday, told ST: "The situation must be serious enough if the whole sermon was centred on the drug issue. It's a reminder for me, as a father, to be more concerned about my children's activities."

Last year, 1,700 Malays were arrested for drug-related offences, up from 1,380 in 2010, Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Home Affairs Amrin Amin said in a speech at the Dadah Itu Haram launch.

The number of new offenders has also increased, rising from about 590 in 2010 to nearly 730 last year.

Mr Amrin, along with campaign partners from the Singapore Islamic Scholars and Religious Teachers Association (Pergas), the Muhammadiyah Welfare Home and IslamicEvents.sg, among others, gave away campaign stickers and car decals at Al-Ansar Mosque in Chai Chee yesterday before the start of prayers.

MHA said various stakeholders in the Muslim community are actively battling drug addiction and rehabilitating former offenders.

"In 2015, Pergas designed the Insan Mukmin curriculum, an intensive religious rehabilitation programme for drug inmates, and worked with mosques to organise the aftercare programme component," said the MHA spokesman.

Retiree Ibrahim Abdul Halim, 68, who was at Al-Khair mosque in Teck Whye Crescent, said the sermon was a "wake-up call" for the community. He said: "If you lived through the 1970s, you would know that heroin was a big problem for the Malay community. We can't allow a repeat of the past."

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/reinforcing-anti-drug-message-in-friday-sermon

 

[scroobal]

Using religion to preach about evils of drugs? Whose idea is that ? People who go to mosque aren't the usual drug users or pushers. Straightaway you know that this is not going to have an effect on the community's woes. It has never worked over 40 yrs.

So what is CNB doing? Why are drugs getting thru? So is the change in policy about DRC detention having the wrong effect.

 

[tanwahtiu]

British Empire opium drug is legal.

The pommies will show u how. They were drug traffickers for 100 years. Their history of drug trafficking worldwide was sweep under carpet. They can run but cannot hide.

 

[halsey02]

Using religion to preach about evils of drugs? Whose idea is that ? People who go to mosque aren't the usual drug users or pushers. Straightaway you know that this is not going to have an effect on the community's woes. It has never worked over 40 yrs.

So what is CNB doing? Why are drugs getting thru? So is the change in policy about DRC detention having the wrong effect.

You are the 'same type' of people, all you need to do, is hop on a bus heading north out of here or south by ferry...it is so easy to get drugs.Even you are not the same type of people, even though; the authorities there have done a great job cleaning up the place. CNB can only control here....outside there they cant police.

 

[Cottonmouth]

Haram lampar, m&ds and Drugs go hand in hand.

 

[JohnTan]

If the mosques can do such a great job in getting m&ds and muslims to quit pork, surely they can do the same with drugs. They just need to inculcate into muslims from young that drugs are haram, drugs are fucking unclean and one will burn in hell if one takes drugs. That same approach has worked spectacularly well for pork.

 

[songsongjurong]

if only they preach hardwork, make hay while sun shine, perseverance, dedication,responsibility ....the community be able.to comlete on merit

 

[scroobal]

I have heard of a single programme that involved a PAP MP succeeding unless they are Ministers. Remember when Walter Woon when he was NMP when to move a bill, the Govt panicked and immediately initiated it and the same with Chiam See Tong who wanted to move a bill to make schooling compulsory, again the Govt stepped out of shame. No ordinary PAP backbencher has done anything of value except collect their pay. Even if they keeled over from a stroke, no body will miss a beat.

 

[JohnTan]

if only they preach hardwork, make hay while sun shine, perseverance, dedication,responsibility ....the community be able.to comlete on merit

From what I have seen all these years interracting with so many different muslims from different countries, the only message that sticks are those against pork, jews and christians. Far more muslims obey those teachings on hostility towards pork, christian and jews than they do towards their basic 5 pillars of worshipping allah.

Most muslims are divided on values like hard work, courtesy, respect, drugs, alcohol, women's rights, racism, etc.

It's funny what sort of teachings are prioritised in Islam's teachings.