UU gila di Inggris

Ternyata negara yang maju seperti Inggris saja masih memiliki UU aneh dan gila, misalnya spt. dibawah:

1. Adalah melanggar UU kalau mati di dalam gedung parlemen.

2. Meletakkan perangko bergambar anggota kerajaan terbalik dianggap pengkhianatan terhadap negara.

3. Di Liverpool, wanida dilarang topless kecuali sebagai penjaga toko ikan tropis.

4. Pie cincang tidak dapat dimakan pada hari natal.

5. Di Scotland, bila seseorang mengetuk pintu rumah anda and memohon pinjam kamar-mandi anda, ia mesti diperbolehkan.

6. Seorang wanita hamil diperkenankan secara hukum melepas hajat dimana saja dia suka, termasuk di atas helm/topi polisi.

7. Kepala ikan paus mati yg. ditemukan di pesisir Inggris secara otomatis menjadi milik raja, sementara ekornya milik ratu.

8. Adalah pelanggaran hukum menghindari memberitahu tukang pajak segala sesuatu yang anda tidak ingin dia tahu, tetapi legal untuk tidak memberitahunya informasi yang anda tidak keberatan dia tahu.

9. Merupakan pelanggaran hukum untuk masuk gedung parlemen dalam baju besi.

10. Di kota York adalah sah untuk membunuh seorang skotland dalam jangkauan dinding-dinding kuno kota, tapi hanya jika ia sedang membawa busur dan anak panah.

Sumber: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071106/od_afp/britainlawsoffbeat;_ylt=AkXOywl6shQC4MeNs27HDwWs0NUE

Kelihatannya, UU ini berasal dari zaman kuno Inggris dan masih dipertahankan sampai sekarang.

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The cheapest days to buy stuff

I got this from smartMoney:

1. Airplaine Ticket: Wednesday morning
2. Books: Thursday
3. Cars: Monday
4. Clothing: Thursday evening
5. Department-store: Saturday evening
6. Dinner out: Tuesday
7. Entertainment (theme parks, etc.): Wednesday
8. Gasoline: Thursday before 10 am
9. Groceries: Saturday or Tuesday
10. Hotel Room: Sunday

NASDAQ Composite Index

This is how to calculate NASDAQ Composite Index:

Market cap of a company listed at NASDAQ = mv[i] =p[i] * s[i]

where:
mv[i] = The market value of the company
p[i] = the last sale price of the company's stock
s[i] = the total outstanding shares of the company


NASDAQ Composite Index (N.C.I) then = sum(i=1..N, mv[i]*bv/ABPMV)

Where N = total number of companies listed at NASDAQ (which currently is 3121).

ABPMV = Adjusted Based Period Market Value
= (MVA2/MVB1)* ABPMV'

MVA2 = market Value after Adjustment
MVA1 = Market Value before Adjustment
ABPMV' = ABPMV before adjustment

Kisah Saritem

Nama Saritem memang tidak asing lagi bagi masyarakat terutama masyarakat Jawa Barat. Apalagi bagi pria yang punya hobi bertualang cinta. Bahkan karena informasi dari mulut ke mulut nama Saritem semakin dikenal di sebagian masyarakat yang ada di luar wilayah Jawa Barat.

Selama ratusan tahun Saritem dikenal sebagai tempat para pekerja seks komersial (PSK). Tidak diketahui secara pasti kapan lokasi ini dijadikan ajang bisnis seks. Berdasarkan literatur dan keterangan beberapa tokoh setempat lokasi ini telah berdiri sejak zaman Belanda. "Kalau kata orang tua-tua, Saritem sudah ada sejak tahun 1838," kata Agusman (53), warga RW 09 kepada detikcom.

Dikisahkan nama lokalisasi Saritem erat kaitannya dengan nama gadis belia asal kota kembang Bandung bernama Saritem. Saritem memang berwajah cantik dan berkulit putih. Pesona Saritem ternyata memikat seorang pembesar Belanda kala itu. Kemudian Saritem dijadikan gundiknya. Sejak itulah gadis Saritem menjadi ‘Nyonya Belanda’. Namanya pun berganti menjadi Nyi Saritem.

Beberapa tahun kemudian Saritem disuruh Kompeni mencari wanita untuk dijadikan teman kencan serdadu Belanda yang masih lajang. Waktu itu daerah Gardu Jati dijadikan sebagai tangsi atau markas militer serdadu Belanda. Untuk kegiatan itu Saritem difasilitasi sebuah rumah yang lumayan besar.

Lambat laun perempuan-perempuan yang dikumpulkan Saritem bertambah banyak. Saritem mengumpulkan perempuan-perempuan dari berbagai daerah dari Bandung dan sekitarnya, seperti Cianjur, Sumedang, Garut, dan Indramayu. Sejak itu nama Saritem mulai kesohor. Yang datang ke rumah yang dikelolanya pun bertambah banyak.

Tidak hanya dari kalangan serdadu yang lajang. Serdadu yang lanjut usia pun juga berdatangan ke tempat Saritem. Bahkan beberapa warga pribumi ada juga yang datang. Antusiasme serdadu dan beberapa masyarakat pribumi terhadap tempat memadu kasih ala Saritem.

Hal ini membuat teman-teman Saritem yang juga menjadi gundik tentara Belanda tertarik membuka usaha serupa. Mereka rata-rata perempuan bekas binaan Saritem. Sejak perang kemerdekaan 1945 tangsi militer serdadu Belanda berhasil dikuasai pejuang Republik Indonesia. Namun, bisnis Saritem tidak tersentuh.

Setelah Indonesia merdeka tempat itu semakin banyak saja dikunjungi tamu. Meski Saritem telah tiada toh tetap saja masyarakat mengenal lokasi itu dengan sebutan Saritem. Selanjutnya rumah-rumah penduduk pun berdiri di sekitar lokasi Saritem. Lokasi Saritem berada di tengah-tengah pemukiman penduduk.

Inilah yang membuat warga kala itu tidak menggubris keberadaan lokalisasi Saritem. Pasalnya, lokalisasi itu telah berdiri lebih awal dibanding pemukiman warga. Bahkan kala itu banyak warga dari berbagai daerah membuka pemukiman di sekitar lokalisasi untuk mengais remah-remah dari bisnis seks di Saritem. Tidak hanya itu, banyak di antara warga yang akhirnya ikut-ikutan menjalankan profesi sebagai mucikari.

Akhirnya bisnis tersebut terus dikelola hingga turun temurun. Tidak semua memang warga di sekitar lokasi yang terlibat bisnis tersebut. "Dari seluruh warga di kawasan Saritem yang menjalankan bisnis ini hanya sekitar 30%. Selebihnya warga menjalankan profesi seperti masyarakat pada umumnya," jelas Masnu, Ketua RW 09. Namun, dia tidak menyebutkan secara konkrit berapa jumlah warga di lingkungannya.

Saritem terletak di tengah kota di antara Jln. Gardujati - Jln. Kelenteng. Tepatnya di RW 07 dan RW 09, Kelurahan Kebonjeruk, Kecamatan Andir, Kota Bandung. Lokasinya yang strategis tentunya mengundang masyarakat dari daerah untuk tinggal dan berusaha di kawasan tersebut. Hal inilah yang menjadi alasan Masnu kesulitan untuk mendapatkan data konkrit tentang jumlah warganya.

Perjalanan Saritem sebagai obyek wisata seks di Bandung kian hari semakin menambah gerah sebagian masyarakat. Berbagai upaya protes dilayangkan kepada aparat terkait. Hanya saja belum berhasil membuat denyut Saritem terhenti.

Upaya penutupan akhirnya dilakukan tahun 1999 saat Walikota Bandung dijabat Aa Tarmana. Hanya saja penutupan itu tidak berjalan lama. Beberapa bulan kemudian bisnis esek-esek kembali berjalan.

Lagi pula uang yang terkumpul dari beragam retribusi baik yang resmi atau tidak resmi jumlahnya lumayan menggiurkan. Dalam sebulan uang yang terkumpul bisa mencapai miliaran rupiah. Uang-uang haram tersebut sebagian besar mengalir ke kantong-kantong pejabat terkait.

Menurut Agus, calo di lokalisasi Saritem, kamar sewa yang ada di rumah-rumah bordil jumlahnya diperkirakan ada 500-an. Biasanya masing-masing kamar dikenai pajak tidak resmi sebesar Rp 10 ribu kepada oknum petugas.

Dalam sehari Saritem memberi kontribusi ilegal sebanyak Rp 5 juta per minggu. Atau Rp 150 juta per bulan kepada oknum petugas. Itu belum pajak-pajak tidak resmi lainnya. Alhasil upaya untuk memberangus tempat maksiat itu semakin mengendur dan lenyap.

Tetapi, lama-kelamaan sebagian masyarakat Bandung semakin risau dengan keberadaan Saritem dan ketidaktegasan aparat. Masyarakat Bandung merasa imej kota kembang Bandung selalu tercemar dengan keberadaan Saritem. Untuk mengubah persepsi sebagai kota esek-esek sebagian masyarakat sepakat memerangi prostitusi, terutama di Saritem.

Saritem boleh saja lolos dari berbagai perang yang terjadi. Termasuk saat peristiwa Bandung lautan api. Tetapi, kini Saritem tidak bisa mengelak dari regulasi Pemkot Bandung. Setelah terbitnya Peraturan Daerah (Perda) Kota Bandung No. 11/1995 tentang Ketertiban, Kebersihan, dan Keindahan (Perda K3). Adanya Perda ini Saritem tidak bisa mengelak dari hukuman "mati";.

Perda itu mulai efektif berlaku November 2006. Esensi dari Perda tersebut adalah melarang setiap praktik prostitusi di Kota Bandung. Dengan efektifnya Perda K3 ini, mau tidak mau, Saritem pun harus bubar.

Vonis mati terhadap Saritem akhirnya dieksekusi, Rabu (18/4/2007). Sebanyak 73 rumah yang selama ini dijadikan tempat prostitusi disegel. Tidak hanya itu aparat juga berjanji akan terus mengawasi kawasan itu. "Kami akan menyebar petugas di lokasi tersebut paling tidak selama seminggu," kata Kepala Satpol PP Kota Bandung Prianan Wirasaputra.

Tetapi, tetap saja penutupan ini masih dirundung keraguan. Soalnya rumah-rumah bordil itu hanya disegel saja. Tidak dibongkar. Besar kemungkinan para mucikari dan warga akan menghidupkan kembali lokalisasi Saritem. Apalagi warga menduga upaya penutupan Saritem hanya bersifat politis menjelang Pilkada 2008 mendatang.

Bila dugaan itu benar tentu semakin membuka peluang Saritem akan beroperasi lagi. Jadi tidak mustahil selepas pilkada 'grasi' terhadap saritem akan dikeluarkan.

True Global Warming

Global warning telah menunjukkan tanda-tandanya. Buktinya, terjadi hujan es di Bandung. Selama saya tinggal di Bandung hampir 10 tahun, belum pernah saya mengalami apa yang dinamakan 'hail' ini.

http://foto.detik.com/index.php/home.readfoto/tahun/2007/bulan/04/tgl/01/time/182139/idnews/761447/idkanal/157/id/2

Sungguh mengerikan. Setelah hujan yang tiada hentinya di Jakarta tempo hari, sekarang Bandung mengalami nasib yang hampir sama. Kemarin saya mengais kembali arsip DVD film saya dan menemukan film "The Day After Tomorrow" yang menceritakan dampak dari pemanasan global ini. Majalah Time edisi minggu ini juga menceritakan makin seriusnya global warming ini.

Sampai kapan kita akan terus terlena dengan tetap membakar fossil dan menghasilkan CO2?

Medieval Muslims made stunning Math Breakthrough

The original news is posted here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070223/sc_nm/architecture_patterns_dc;_ylt=Ano14Vec1dEy.4eq_1p4wNfMWM0F

Geometrical patterns invented by muslim artisans are very complex structure. Muslims invented these more than 500 years ago, long before west did. Only recently (in 70's) some west mathematician found the theory.

Very interesting. This is another proof that muslims have contributed a lot in science and engineering.

INDONESIA: NATURAL DISASTERS OR MASS MURDER?

INDONESIA: NATURAL DISASTERS OR MASS MURDER?

By Andre Vltchek

Another day, another unnecessary loss of lives: 16 people killed and 16 still missing in floods and landslides on a small island Tahuna off Indonesia's Sulawesi.

At an alarming rate, Indonesia is replacing Bangladesh and India as the most disaster-prone nation on earth. Whenever the word Indonesia appears on the list of headlines on Yahoo news, chances are that another enormous and unnecessary tragedy occurred on one of the islands of this sprawling archipelago.

Airplanes are disappearing or sliding off the runways, ferries are sinking or simply decomposing on the high seas, trains crash or get derailed at average rate of one per week, illegal passengers falling through the rusty roofs. Illegal garbage dumps bury under its stinking content desperate communities of scavengers. Landslides are taking carton-like houses to the ravines; earthquakes and tidal waves are destroying coastal cities and villages. Forest fires from Sumatra are choking huge area of Southeast Asia.

The scope of disasters is unprecedented and it is absurd to discount them simply as nation's bad luck or as the wrath of gods or the nature. Corruption, incompetence and simple indifference of ruling elites and government officials are mostly to blame. It is poverty, lack of public projects and kleptomania that kills hundreds of thousands of desperate Indonesian men, women and children.

Since 1965 US-sponsored military coup that deposed Sukarno, installing a military regime of staunch anti-communist and corrupt pro-market Dictator Suharto, Indonesia escapes serious scrutiny by the western media and governments. After Suharto stepped down in 1998, it is being hailed by mass media as emerging and increasingly tolerant democracy.

Some of these disasters are man-made; almost all of them are preventable. At closer scrutiny it becomes obvious that people die due to almost non-existent prevention, lack of education (Indonesia has the third lowest spending on education as percentage of its GDP, after Equatorial Guinea and Ecuador) and savage pro-market economic system which allows enrichment of very few at the expense of the majority which lives under 2 dollars a day.

Conclusions can be terrifying casting light on the way the present-day Indonesian society functions. However, to avoid this exposure would doubtlessly lead to further loss of precious lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

Indonesia is profit-driven to the extreme. It is also one of the most corrupt nations on the face of the earth. And there seems to be no immediate profit to be made from implementing preventive measures. Dams and anti-tsunami walls are almost everywhere considered to be public works and exactly this word - public - had almost disappeared from the lexicon of those who make decisions in Indonesia. Short-term profit for particular group of individuals is given much higher priority than long-term gains for the entire nation. Moral collapse of the nation is reflected in the scale of values: corrupt but rich individuals command incomparably higher respect than those who are honest but poor.

Ferries are sinking not "because of high winds and waves"; they sink because they are overcrowded and badly maintained, or more precisely because they are allowed to be overcrowded and badly maintained. Everything is for sale, even the safety of thousands of passengers. Companies care only about their profits, while government inspectors are mainly interested in bribes. Recent well publicized sinking of Senopati Nusantara killed hundreds of people, but it was just one of hundreds of maritime disasters that occur in Indonesia each year. While there are no exact statistics available (for predictable reasons, Indonesian government makes sure to avoid publishing comprehensive comparative statistics), some maritime routes lose 3 or more vessels a year.

Indonesian airline industry has one of the worst safety records in the world. Since 1997, at least 666 people died in 8 major separate airplane crashes in Indonesia. Some of the pilots are so badly trained that planes often skip off the runway, miss runway altogether or land in the middle of it. Maintenance is another issue: flaps often don't function properly, wheels cannot get in after take-off, seldom changed tires have tendency to blow up upon touch down. It is mystery how do some airplanes -particularly old Boeings 737s flown by almost all Indonesian airlines – make it through the inspections.

After consulting with local civil aviation officials (who obviously do not want to be identified), your correspondent learned that the navigation systems at several major Indonesian airports are in disastrous state, particularly those at Makassar in Sulawesi and Medan in Sumatra.

On average, there is one deadly train accident every six days in Indonesia, many caused by the lack of gates at its 8.000 level crossings. In comparison Malaysia had no fatal accident for 13 years up to 2005 (last year for which statistics are available).

Despite the fact that Indonesia has relatively small number of cars per capita, its roads are the "most used" of any networks in the world (second only to Hong Kong which is not a country): 5.7 million vehicle-km per year of road network (2003, The Economist World in Figures, 2007 Edition).

Despite this epic congestion and generally slow pace of traffic, 80 plus people die on average every day on Indonesian road, mostly due to the terrible state of the infrastructure and poor law-enforcement, according to The Financial Times.

Earthquakes alone do not kill people. Poor construction of houses and buildings are the culprits, together with the lack of preventive measures and preventive education. It is well known fact that Indonesia is prone to natural disasters; that it is located on so called ring of fire. But the poor can count on no massive public housing projects (like those in neighboring Malaysia), which could withstand earthquakes. Almost each family is on its own: it has to design and build its own dwelling.

Major earthquakes kill hundreds, sometimes thousands of people, leaving hundreds of thousand homeless. At least 5.800 people died and 36.000 were injured on May 27, 2006 during 6.3-magnitute earthquake which hit central Java near historic city of Yogyakarta. Primitive infrastructure, inadequate medical facilities and corruption in distribution of aid are to blame for unacceptably high number of casualties after each major tremor.

Illegal logging and deforestation are the main reasons for the landslides. It is well known who is responsible for the forest fires in Sumatra and elsewhere, but officials are reluctant to make arrests, as those responsible for de-forestation are often rich and well connected in the country where even justice is for sale. There are countless solutions to this problem, including law-enforcement, inspections and attempt to provide alternative means for livelihood to those communities that are so desperate that they are literally forced to participate in digging their own graves by destroying environment that is in return annihilating entire communities.

But almost nothing is done, as illegal logging is huge and lucrative business that can grease hundreds of willing palms.

Last month, dozens of people were killed in landslides and flush floods in north of Sumatra Island, which forced some 400.000 people to flee their homes. In June 2006, floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains killed more than 200 people in south Sulawesi province.

Tidal wave, known as tsunami, killed more than 126.000 people in Aceh province in December 2004. Not only was response of Indonesian government and military forces inexcusably slow and inadequate, large part of massive foreign aid disappeared in corruption. Instead of helping victims, many members of Indonesian military were extorting bribes from relief agencies and destroying precious supplies or drinking water and food in case that bribes were not paid. In a scandalous land-grab sponsored by the government, many victims were prevented from returning to their own land while children were forcefully separated from their parents (who lost birth certificates during the tragedy) and "adopted" by religious organizations; some falling victims to human trafficking. More than two years after this devastating tragedy, hundreds of thousands are living in temporary housing.

Many victims of yet another tsunami, which hit the coast of southern Java in July 17, 2006, are still waiting for any substantial help. At official count, 600 people died, but the real number was almost certainly much higher. Indonesian officials received early warning from Japan but refused to act, later claiming that there was not much they could do, as the area was not equipped with the sirens or loudspeakers.

Indonesia often suffers from some man-made disasters beyond any comprehension and comparison. Recent "mud flood" inundated entire villages right outside Surabaya. It occurred due to inadequate safety procedures of a gas exploration company (co-owned by one of the cabinet ministers). This "accident" displaced more than 10.000 people, covering over 1.000 acres of land with hot mud, destroying the only motorway of Surabaya as well as the major railway line. Garbage buried entire communities of poor scavengers at illegal dumping site outside Bandung. There are many more cases of similar nature, but complete list would require too much space - probably entire book dedicated to the subject.

The question is when will Indonesian people say that enough is enough and when will they demand accountability and justice, exact statistics and concrete blueprint for solutions? In almost any other country, two recent disasters - grizzly sinking of Senopati Nusantara and "disappearance" of Adam Air Boeing 737 with 102 people on board - would be more than enough to force cabinet ministers to resign. In Indonesia, these tragedies are seen (or presented) as yet another misfortune without holding anyone responsible or accountable.

Indonesian press and mass media are reporting each and every disaster in details. But they are failing to establish that what is happening there is extraordinary and intolerable, that there is probably no other major country in the world that is experiencing such unnecessary and devastating loss of human lives due to disasters that are either man-made or easily preventable.

To link enormous number of lost human lives in countless disasters with corruption and socio-economic system is determinately discouraged. Jakarta Post, leading daily newspaper in Indonesia, recently suppressed this commentary, refusing to publish it on its pages.

Since December 2004, Indonesia has lost around 200 thousand people in various disasters, not counting car accidents and military conflicts ranging all over its archipelago. That's more than Iraq lost in the same period of time, more than Sri Lanka or Peru lost during their long civil wars. Indeed, many Indonesians are experiencing life, which is as dangerous and hazardous as that in the war-torn parts of the world. Most of them don't realize it, as comparative statistics are not available or are suppressed.

Indonesia is poor, but it is still in the position to protect some of its most vulnerable citizens. The main problem is that there is no political will. There is plenty of concrete and bricks to build dams and walls against tsunamis, to reinforce the hills around the towns, which are in danger of being buried by the landslides. One just has to look around

Jakarta where dozens of unnecessary new shopping malls are growing in several locations, where kitschy palaces of corrupt officials cover acres of land.

Unwillingness to deal with the problems has roots mostly in corruption. Local companies and officials developed unique ability to make profits from everything, even from disasters and from the suffering of millions of fellow citizens. In simplified terms, corruption is stealing from the public. But when the toll has to be calculated in hundreds of thousands of lost human lives, it becomes mass murder.

Andre Vltchek: novelist, journalist and filmmaker, co-founder of Mainstay Press
(www.mainstaypress.org), senior Fellow at Oakland Institute
(www.oaklandinstitute.org).

He presently resides and works in Southeast
Asia and South Pacific and can be reached at: andre-wcn@usa.net

Pencuri Kue

Berikut ini bukan tulisan saya, tapi dapat diambil hikmah dari cerita tsb.
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Seorang wanita sedang menunggu di bandara suatu malam. Masih ada beberapa jam sebelum jadwal terbangnya tiba. Untuk membuang waktu, ia membeli buku dan sekantong kue di toko bandara lalu menemukan tempat untuk duduk.

Sambil duduk wanita tersebut membaca buku yang baru saja dibelinya. Dalam keasyikannya tersebut ia melihat lelaki disebelahnya dengan begitu berani mengambil satu atau dua dari kue yang berada diantara mereka. Wanita tersebut mencoba mengabaikan agar tidak terjadi keributan. Ia membaca, mengunyah kue dan melihat jam. Sementara si Pencuri Kue yang pemberani menghabiskan persediaannya. Ia semakin kesal sementara menit-menit berlalu.

Wanita itupun sempat berpikir Kalau aku bukan orang baik, sudah kutonjok dia! Setiap ia mengambil satu kue, Si lelaki juga mengambil satu. Ketika hanya satu kue tersisa, ia bertanya-tanya apa yang akan dilakukan lelaki itu. Dengan senyum tawa di wajahnya dan tawa gugup, Si lelaki mengambil kue terakhir dan membaginya dua. Si lelaki menawarkan separo miliknya, sementara ia makan yang separonya lagi. Si wanita pun merebut kue itu dan berpikir 'Ya ampun orang ini berani sekali, dan ia juga kasar, malah ia tidak kelihatan berterima kasih'. Belum pernah rasanya ia begitu kesal.

Ia menghela napas lega saat penerbangannya diumumkan. Ia mengumpulkan barang miliknya dan menuju pintu gerbang. Menolak untuk menoleh pada si "Pencuri tak tahu terima kasih!".

Ia naik pesawat dan duduk di kursinya, lalu mencari bukunya, yang hampir selesai dibacanya. Saat ia merogoh tasnya, ia menahan napas dengan kaget. Disitu ada kantong kuenya, di depan matanya. Koq milikku ada di sini erangnya dengan patah hati, Jadi kue tadi adalah miliknya dan ia mencoba berbagi. Terlambat untuk minta maaf, ia tersandar sedih. Bahwa sesungguhnya dialah yang kasar, tak tahu terima kasih dan dialah pencuri kue itu.

Dalam hidup ini kisah pencuri kue seperti tadi sering terjadi. Kita sering berprasangka dan melihat orang lain dengan kacamata kita sendiri/subjektif serta tak jarang kita berprasangka buruk terhadapnya. Orang lainlah yang selalu salah, orang lainlah yang patut disingkirkan, orang lainlah yang tak tahu diri, orang lainlah yang berdosa, orang lainlah yang selalu bikin masalah, orang lainlah yang pantas diberi pelajaran. Padahal.....??? kita sendiri yang mencuri kue tadi, padahal kita sendiriyang tidak tahu malu. Kita sering mempengaruhi, mengomentari, mencemooh pendapat, penilaianatau gagasan orang lain sementara sebetulnya kita tidak tahu betul permasalahannya

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Cheikh sohaib الشيخ صهيب الأمريكي

An american convert, who studied at Al-Azhar University, got interviewed on a TV program in Kuwait. Worth seeing it! This is the first episode. See another one for the second episode.

Othmar List

Othmar List: "1. Reaching Out 2 U - Ottmar Liebert
2. Merengue De Alegrias (Candy 4 My Soul) - Ottmar Liebert
3. Snakecharmer - Ottmar Liebert
4. Havana Club - Ottmar Liebert
5. Ten Piedad De Mi Mercy Mercy Me - (The Ecology) - Ottmar Liebert
6. Heart Still/Beating / 2 The Night - Ottmar Liebert
7. Turkish Night - Ottmar Liebert
8. Ocean Blvd./Miami - Ottmar Liebert
9. Nuevo Mexico - Ottmar Liebert
10. Verano De Alegria / Summer Of Joy - Ottmar Liebert
11. Ballad 4 Santana - Ottmar Liebert
12. Spanish Steps / Rome In May - Ottmar Liebert
13. Agua Fria - Ottmar Liebert
14. Kashmir - Ottmar Liebert
15. The Girl From Ipanema - Ottmar Liebert
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Diana Ross

: "1. Mahogany Theme From (Do You Know Where You're Going To) - Diana Ross
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Taleal Bedru Alejna - Meshari Rashid

A very nice song by a mideasterner. The lyric was actually sung by people of Madina (a city where the Prophet Muhammad lived and died) when the prophet were coming to the city with his companion, Abo Bakr, from Mecca to avoid raid of unbelievers.