The vanishing of burqa clad actress Soraya Abdullah and possible connections to terrorism.
For several years former model and actress Soraya Abdullah has studied Islam under M Iqbal alias Abu Jibril at the Al Munawwarah mosque in Pamulang. While attending his sermons Soraya developed a relationship with Jibril’s son M. Jibril alias Muhammad Ricky Ardhan (the founder of Ar Rahmah Media), who was arrested on August 25th on suspicion of arranging funding for terrorist activities in Indonesia, specifically for the Jakarta bombings in July.
Since Jibril’s arrest Soraya Abdullah has been in hiding, from the media, not the police.
Pre Jilbab Days
Her full name is Soraya Abdullah Balvas or Balfas, born in Jakarta in 1978 of mixed Indonesian-Arab descent, and is usually called Aya. Before she discovered hyper-religiosity she was a familiar face on television, starring in a number of commercials for products like Daihatsu Taruna, Cooling 5, Bayfresh, Nescafe, and Vaseline, and later moving into the world of sinetron, her most famous role being that of the snake queen Ratu Medusa in “Gerhana II”.
Jilbab Days
She is said to have undergone great emotional strain after her 2.5 year long marriage to a Balinese man ended in bitterness, and thereafter went to live in an Islamic boarding college, the pondok pesantren Al Ihya in Bogor. While there she chose to don the Islamic headscarf, the jilbab, in 2006. At the time the mother of two (Muhammad Senarai Ikhtiar and Siti Aisyiah Az-Zahra) said her motto had now become
Jihad in the way of Allah
Thereafter she continued to work in television, but in more religious themed soap operas, like “Hidayah” and “Misteri Illahi”.
Burqa Days
Her passion for religion continued to grow and after studying under Abu Jibril she chose to almost entirely cover herself, by wearing a burqa, and deserted the world of fame and glamour for religious contemplation and activism.
Rumours circulated that she and M. Jibril alias Muhammad Ricky Ardhan were considering marriage, while Aya’s father, Abdullah Saleh Balvas, denies this saying that their relationship was a purely business one.
Abdullah also claims that Soraya is not in “hiding” but that the family had long ago chosen to move out of Jakarta and live quietly in the countryside, and had done so since May 2009, before the JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton attacks. vivanews
yes ross, too bad such a beautiful woman is not available any more for your eye’s consumption. well that is the whole reason, the deny undeserving men such privilliges.
Sometimes, we as human, doing somethin that we thought dat’s the “right” thing to do, based on our own narrow point of view.
I hope she won’t losin’ herself and become one of the so-called people who think that they’re doin JIHAD, but by putting down others, by character assassination, even killing others, by hook or by crook.
In spite of all, isn’t it ALLAH is known as Ar Rahman and Ar Rahim…??
May we be blessed. Wassalam
Jihad in the way of Allah ,that’s a very good the way of live that you have Chosen.
But it doesn’t mean that you chance your performance by using burqa.
Burqa can’t make you a holly person.
It’s A very pitty.
The burqa and veil are not a tool to become ācloser to godā (how does the wearing of cloth bring one closer to god anyhow?) or a sign of submission to a deity. Nor is it simply a reactionary symbol of religious affiliation like the Christian cross or Jewish yarmulke. The veil is the physical symbol of the submission of women to men, the permanent, imposed affirmation of their inferior status. It represents the extension outside the home of the seclusion imposed on women by reactionary sharia law.
To depict the covering of a womanās body as a quaint cultural attribute or merely a āchoiceā of dress is nonsense. Such ācultural relativismā prettifies hideous oppression of women in Indonesia and around the world. The headscarf might be less onerous than the full body chador, but they all reflect the view of women as property, less than fully human. The veil is the glaring manifestation of the social program of the reactionary Islamist forces now operating throughout Indonesia and beyond, and it means nothing less than total servitude for women.
That said the issue of the veil,head scarf or burqa is and should be the last priority for Indonesian women ā how about equality, healthcare, sanitation and education to start with. The millions of dispossessed peasants, unemployed youth and low-wage workers of Indonesia do find a comforting retreat in religion. They direct their hopes not only to heaven, but more so to its earthly representation in the Islamic solidarity networks of clinics, schools, charities, cooperatives and other social services that have become a now vital alternative to the lack of care that the central government and the ruling class show toward its own fellow citizens.
The deeping Islamisation of Indonesian social and political life in Indonesia is a reactionary outcome of disenchantment with the ineptitude, corruption and bankruptcy of Indonesian nationalism. Not only is religion the opium of the people, as Marx said, but also:
āReligious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions.ā
What about a struggle on behalf of males for the right to also wear the burqa?
haha touche….
Steps to determine the factual content of a statement eg: Its on the internet, it must be true
I think the definitive source for this kind of issue has got to be Islamic rage boy http://www.thenoseonyourface.com/category/islamic-rage-boy/
And his lyrically haunting “Baby what a pack of lies” oh baby, i never tickled hasim’s thighs
In the other part of the world, we called them a Ninja. Lightning fast movement, expert in conceal themselves.
I wonder, she is a Muslim and wear what she believes best and that comes from her religion and ALLAH. Why these gentiles are so fussy about?
Then i found the answer:
QS 2:120
The Jews and the Christians would not like to you so that you follow their religion. Say: ‘The guidance of ALLAH is (the actual ) guidance”. And if thou follow their desires after this knowledge come to you, then ALLAH is no longer the protector and helper for you”.
Totally agree with PPT. Just ignore those ignorants
PPT – where did you buy your English translation of the Koran? Judging from the grammar it was done by the same people who came up with Wings Air’s “Fly is Cheap”… Thinking of another thread, I also wonder how decent a grasp on Arabic they had….
R u bothered so much Tim coz its really represent u? Well,truth hurt sometimes..
The more i read the comments of the ppl here who attack Muslims and Islam,the more i’m sure abt this verse..
QS 2:120
The Jews and the Christians would not like to you so that you follow their religion. Say: āThe guidance of ALLAH is (the actual ) guidanceā. And if thou follow their desires after this knowledge come to you, then ALLAH is no longer the protector and helper for youā.
Ah your back PPT, we thought you would have found it too hard to continue your rants reading the news over the past week or so. How’s the Mulsim never attack Muslim theory holding up so far?
Seriously though, as for being sure about
The Jews and the Christians would not like to you so that you follow their religion. Say: āThe guidance of ALLAH is (the actual ) guidanceā. And if thou follow their desires after this knowledge come to you, then ALLAH is no longer the protector and helper for youā.
Then you are the only one because that is really a poor translation and means nothing. Do you have an english version?
I didn’t say NEVER.. I let you think you are right and stay on ur mistakes. š
Regarding the verse..what shld it be written then?
I’m sure u all understand the meanings, u just try 2 defy it! Have a nice live!
What should be written? Who knows hard to make head or tail out of the whats there though. One assumes its the usual rant about its all some elses fault my life sucks!
Defy what? or did you mean deny? As I am not a Jew or Christian not really relevent anyway. I do have a very nice life anyway thanks for asking, its not difficult if you can go through life without hating others or worrying too much what they believe or do not believe or how they decide to clothe themselves.
Its not difficult if you can go through life without hating others..
Hating? i don’t hate..those verse also not abt hating but reminding.
or how they decide to clothe themselves.
Funny..i don’t fuss abt she’s wearing a burqa..aren’t u all the fussed ones?beside the ISLAMIZATION(?) u worried about that mentioned in the’About’ section.
So, who’s
worrying too much what they believe or do not believe
?
I put (?) coz nobody has given me the answer and description for so called ‘ISLAMIZATIONS’
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PPT,
At the risk of wasting my time go and look at some pictures of traditonal Indonesia dress and get back to me. Arab dress is not Indonesian Dress, is that not self evident to you? It is always sad when people are so willing to abandon their heritage to others.
The very fact that a multi religion, multi ethnic country like Indonesia now has regions implementing or already has ill-defined Sharia Laws CLEARLY demonstrates a move by some Islamization of the country. This is obviously in clear contradiction of the nationās constitution and considering the vast amount of the wealth of the nation comes from traditionally non-Islamic provinces pretty short sighted.
There is more money and bylaws now insisting on people to learn to speak Arabic (divisive in of itself as it only has relevance to one section of the family that is Indonesia) than any other in the country. Yet the national unifying language of Bahasa Indonesian is ignored more as the education system fails into the hands of the religious radicals. The economy building languages of English and Chinese are ignored to the extent we get “FLY IS CHEAP” and that appalling train smash of a Arab to English translation you provided.
The nationās founders recognized the danger to the nation in elevating one religion above another, it is a crying shame and to Indonesiaās long term detriment that so many people today cannot recognize the same obvious truth.
As for the fuss, itās not what people choose to wear but when they are intimidated by bylaw or thugs to do so.
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This is exactly what happens when Muslims become more religious! š