I pray to Allah for the safe return of Sharlinie to her parents and family. Lets take a moment and make a Doa to Allah, as He is the only one who we worship and the only place that we seek assistance from…. (We recite this every day at least 17 times as it is in the 4th sentence in surah Al-Fatihah).
Sharlinie has been missing since (if I am not mistaken) 9th January. I need not elaborate on how the story started and escalated. Up to now, I think the media has taken this to a scenario where it has forced the police to do house-to-house checks, got certain individuals and NGOs to provide monetary rewards on any information that leads to the safe return of Sharlinie, posters stamped at each corner of the country, suraus and mosques are consistently conducting Hajat prayers etc. Everybody wants to be a part of the initiave to get Sharlinie home.
Lets not forget the few other cases before Sharlinie…. Everybody remembers Muhammad Nazrin or Yin and Nurin Jazlin (these are the one currently on top of my head right now) in fact there are many more. We hope Sharlinie’s case will not end as tragic as it did for Nurin. This is what I am worried about. It got me thinking whether the strategy to go to media was the ‘right’one.
I was discussing this over with an ex-cop neighbor the other day and his immediate response was that sometimes media was what made things worst. The abductors are already on a ‘nothing-to-loose’ mode. In fact the first thing they did was to shave the kids hair off. The same story for Yin (shaved by the Myanmar couple) and Nurin (her hair was shorter, that’s why the parents could not recognize her). I am afraid for the worst. When these abductors are pressured and become more desperate, they might go to the extend of even ‘murder’ waliyazubillah. I believe that’s what happened to Nurin. I think, the police should put as much effort as possible to all cases regardless whether it went on the media or not and we should not go straight to the media on similar incidents.
Hey that’s my 2 cents on the issue, what’s yours???
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Although the media, the political parties youth movement and tons of organizations are saying that they're praying for the safe return of Adik Sharlinie, something happened at the KLCC mosque last friday or about 2 weeks ago that made me believe, we Malaysians dont actually care much about the missing child.
On that day, after the friday prayers were over. The imam inform the public that we'll have a solat hajat for the safe return of Adik Sharlinie. Despite repeated calls to stay for the solat hajat only 1/10 stayed back for the solat hajat.
Do we actually care?
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