Islam, development, knowledge, science and technology.

  • 24th Feb, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Mr Busy
Semasa bekerjasama dengan Kak Zieha dan kumpulan produksi e-media (televisyen) di JAKIM Putrajaya, kami berjaya menerbitkan 15 episod rancangan 'Reflections' yang sudah beberapa diulang-siar di RTM TV1. Antara fokus kami adalah usaha 'mengikat' kembali Islam dengan sains, teknologi dan nilai keilmuan.

Islam is a religion of learning and of knowledge - no matter what you hear in the news nowadays. Do not: (1) Equate Muslim extremism with Islam; (2) Separate between religion and knowledge, (3) Think that the cradle of knowledge is the Western world - learning and the search for knowledge has been the focus of Muslim scholars thousands of years ago.
 
Yang menjadi masalah hari ini, adalah umat Islam sendiri. Contohnya, di Malaysia. Bandingkan kemajuan dan perkembangan Malaysia, dengan sebuah negara yang dicop sebagai pengganas dan terkebelakang, iaitu Iran. Sumber dipetik dari Bernama:

By Nor Faridah Abd Rashid for Bernama, Wednesday, February 25, 2009.

TEHRAN, Feb 24 - There were no cultural performances, children parading in colourful attire nor colourful floats when the Islamic Republic of Iran celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution last Tuesday.

Thirty years after the Islamic revolution, Iran has much to show off, especially in the field of science and technology. It just launched its first domestically manufactured satellite called Omid (hope) into orbit on Feb 2, which became the pride of the Muslim world.

The satellite, carried on a Safir-2 rocket, is meant for telecommunications and research purposes and Iran is now one of the only eight countries that possess the complete cycle of launch pad, rocket reception station and satellite.

Congratulations Iran. And now how about MALAYSIA?

Tags:

The mass media needs to promote Malaysian academics.

  • 23rd Feb, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Mr Cool
This news article was originally on the Yahoo Malaysia site. After some editing, i present the article below. I really like the first line that says "internationally-recognised researchers should be promoted, including through the mass media". So what have i been doing all this while?

Granted, the point is good and clear. I suggest younger academics should learn a bit about the media and how to promote their work using media releases and the likes. Anywho, read the article below from our national news agency, with kudos to the people at UniMAP (which i happen to work with last year).

From Bernama News - Sunday, February 22
 
KANGAR, Feb 22 (Bernama) -- Internationally-recognised researchers should be promoted, including through the mass media, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) vice-chancellor Prof Datuk Dr Kamarudin Hussin said.
 
He said that UniMAP had also achieved numerous successes in its research efforts but there were still rooms for improvement in promoting them.
 
Speaking at the UniMAP-Media Perlis 2009 event here last night, he expressed the hope that the existing ties between the university and the media would continue to be strengthened.

Tags: