of Mas Selamat and Monsieur Filiu

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

It is almost 1 MONTH since Mas Selamat escaped. This dude needs no introduction. He's everywhere but nowhere. He's like the most talked person in town. But what really come as a surprise to me was that this dude actually managed to stay out of the authority's sight in teeny weeny singapore for weeeeks..

Well actually my post is not gonna be so much about Encik Mas Selamat, but rather on a talk that I went to at S. RAJARATNAM SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES by Professeur Jean-Piere Filiu

and guess what the topic was? Al-Qaeda terrorising Islam

and guess what date it was? 27th MARCH 2008

and guess what time it was? 1530 hrs to 1700 hrs..

and guess who attended? prominent people in uniforms, people from the different ministries and embassies.

The talk was awesome and i felt enlightened at the end... and the thing is i felt super dumbed out by the smart people around me. I think my friend and I were the only 2 undergraduates there.. so yeah.. we kinda 'busy-bodied' but hey.. anything for the sake of knowledge and insyaAllah i'll make my way down...

so anyways, he talked about how Al-Qaeda terrorizes Islam by changing doctrines, by making instant sheikh, and this is the new thing i learnt that day was Al-Qaeda means the BASE and the irony is that they have no basis in whatever forms be it in territory,religion, history etc..

so i looked at the clock.. 4+.. hmmmm.. i gotta get backed to my FOC stuffs pretty soon..

there were lots of heated exchanges between this lady from some ministry and i was kinda impressed that there were lots of non muslims around... (which is good so they know that AlQaeda is a total wacko).. and there were questions on Jemaah Islamiah (J.I-- that's where our dude comes from).. and the professeur was being super humble since he is not so much an expert on the regional terrorist base and that there are people in the room who holds more knowledge in that area

anyhow... i went back... didnt watch the news but i kept hearing my dad ranting that somebody had escaped.. i didnt really bother.. and it only struck me that this coincidence of the talk was at the end of the week... it was when the intellectuals were talking about terrorist cells etc etc that dear mr singapore jemaah islamiah got his 'freedom' by going to the toilet.

sarcasms aside... let us make du'a that he'll get caught pretty soon and that we are protected from any bad terrorist attacks etc. Ameen