After 3 nights of sleeping on Kakak's green couch, she finally gets to sleep on her jungle-to-be bed in the jungle-ish room shared with her 2 sisters & 2 nieces.
And oh, why the couch?
because it saves time, as she has been attempting to collect enough facts, understand them, select the relevant ones, rephrase them, and write her own version of the topic. It's for the Post-Graduate Diploma again, this time the assignment was on Islamic Political System. And she chose Turkey, the self-declared secular country with almost 98% Muslim population, whose then-Prime Minister-now-President Recep Tayyip Erdogan apparently continues to issue more legislations that are seen as Islamicly-inspired. Such as lifting the ban on hijab in universities and public offices, restricting sales of alcohol, prohibiting mixed-gender dorms in universities and converting more secular high schools into the Imam-Hatip (religious) high schools in which students learn not only Maths, Physics and the humanities, but also Qur'an, Fiqh and Sirah.
The intriguing part is how the President insisted on being committed to secularism, instead of relating his actions to Islam. For instance, he cited the hijab as part of human rights and to ban it would be against democracy!
Brilliant, isn't he?
He's facing loads of criticism from others. And I believe he very well realises that changing the mindset of generations who have been brainwashed with secular (Atatürk-style) doctrines since the past decades is no easy job.
But at least he's brave enough to attempt it. And even prevailed over the military :D
#mcmnakgiTurkey
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Now summoning The Semangat to begin packing for tomorrow's IOK Trip to KL with my colleagues. Last module to look forward to, biidznillah. On Islamisation of Society. #whoa
Earlier this morning (oh, I finally managed to submit my assignment at almost 1:30am! Alhamdulillah :')), b/w 10+ to around 2pm, was at Pasir Ris Park with my 4 students. Despite the meagre amount of sand (ironically, esp for a place named PASIR Ris. Thus we didn't get to build sandcastles as planned. Hehe), the girls and me had a great time picnicing, swinging, sliding, spider-webbing, climbing, running, walking, chatting... Under the Super Warm Sky. hehe.
Alhamdulillah...
