Do
anybody knows how this father is feeling and he is blaming the Government
UMNO-PAS and the education system of failing his daughter by using religion as
a political weapon to win votes. His daughter is the collateral damage due to
the use of religion by UMNO and PAS to gain the votes of the Malay Muslims.
Remember he is disgusted and UMNO and PAS for making his daughter a victim of
their selfish propagation of their interpretation of religion for votes. He is
one of 70 to 80% disgusted silent Malay Muslim majority who have seen their
family lives turn upside down and the encroachment of religion into their
personal lives. These are the very people that UMNO and PAS think favour religion
in public life will punish these Malay traitors at the ballot boxes.
We stopped
Siti Aishah from calling wanted terrorist, says dad
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MoreAtam Jusoh and Saadiah
Ibrahim are distraught over their daughter Siti Aishah's detention under an
anti-terrorism law. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Seth Akmal, April 5, 2017.
SUSPECTING
something was amiss with their daughter, Atam Jusoh and his wife, Saadiah
Ibrahim, made a rare trip to bring her back to Dungun, Terengganu, in 2014.
Recalling
the trip, Atam said they discovered that their eldest daughter, Siti Noor
Aishah Atam, had lost a lot weight and had stopped eating when they collected
her from an Islamic school in Rembau.
Siti
Aishah, now 29, was a teacher and warden at the school in 2014.
He told
The Malaysian Insight on Sunday that they went to check on their daughter after
hearing that she was in danger following her involvement with humanitarian
efforts in Syria.
Upon their
return to Dungun, the elderly couple referred their daughter to the Dungun
religious office, as they felt their daughter looked “stressed out” and thought
she could have been hypnotised.
For the
next two to three months, Siti Aishah was detained by the Dungun religious
office. She was later charged by the Dungun Shariah Subordinate Court with
possession of a book she owned and was fined RM2,000.
Following
that, Atam and his wife decided to take more drastic measures by cutting her
off from the outside world by taking away her mobile phone and disconnecting
the internet at home.
“When she
first got back, she had her handphone with her. And if there was anything she
didn’t understand (from her reading), she would call Dr Mahmud,” he said,
referring to former Universiti Malaya lecturer Dr Mahmud Ahmad.
Dr Mahmud,
who fled to southern Philippines in 2014, is currently wanted by the federal
police in Bukit Aman for terrorism-related activities.
Saadiah Ibrahim at a solidarity for her daughter, Siti Noor
Aishah Atam, held at Kajang Prison on April 1. – The Malaysian Insight pic by
Nazir Sufari, April 5, 2017.
Siti
Aishah, who is currently being held under the Security Offences (Special
Measures) Act (Sosma), was a quiet person, who did not court trouble as a
child.
She
attended a primary school in Dungun and went to SM Agama Sultan Ismail Dungun.
It was only during her undergraduate studies that she left Terengganu, after
completing a diploma at Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin in Kuala Terengganu.
“She
always informs her mother wherever she goes,” said Atam, 61.
“Even if
she arrives in Alor Star at 5am, she will call home to tell us that she has
arrived,” Sadiah said, recalling when her daughter was studying at Insaniah
University College in Kedah.
Atam,
however, said his daughter never told him about her on-campus activities,
noting that he would not have understood anyway, as he never had tertiary
education.
“I
never visited her either. I just advised her to study hard so that she could
give back to society,” he said, adding that financial constraints were among
the reasons he did not make regular trips to the capital city to visit their
daughter.
‘Marriage
proposal’ start of ordeal
Atam said
the family’s ordeal began in early 2014 when three men visited his house to ask
for his daughter’s hand in marriage.
He said
the three, including the man who wanted to marry Siti Aishah, were rough and
behaved rudely when they came to his house. He turned down their request.
“I
rejected his request, as he did not come with his family, something we Muslims
usually do. I told him one cannot simply get married, as there are many
procedures, but he wanted to marry her as soon as possible. He didn’t even look
at me when he talked to me,” said Atam.
The man
introduced himself as Mohd Gadafi from Kuala Kangsar, Perak.
After the
rejection, Atam said, the family began receiving threats, warning him not to
inform anyone or the authorities about the meeting, or their lives would be in
danger.
“That’s
why I lodged a police report (in 2014) about them, but not about my daughter,”
he said, adding that Siti Aishah met Gadafi on Facebook.
Siti
Aishah, who was detained for allegedly possessing 12 terrorism-related books,
had also been held under the Prevention of Crime Act 1959 (POCA) last year, on
the day the Kuala Lumpur High Court acquitted and discharged her.
The former
Universiti Malaya master’s in usuluddin (Islamic studies) student said she was
using the books for her master’s degree research.
The High
Court found that there was no prima facie case against her and acquitted her.
After the POCA detention, she was sentenced to house arrest, with an electronic
monitoring device (EMD) fitted to her before she was re-arrested on March 27.
Atam’s
only wish now is for her release, to end the pain the family have suffered in
the past years.
“I hope
she will be released as soon as possible. It’s been a long time and it’s a
torture for me and my daughter. If this continues, I don’t think we can cope
with it. I can’t afford it financially,” he said.
“I never
regretted my decision to lodge a police report back then. But my police report
and the 2016 arrest are not connected.” – April 5, 2017.
