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Senin, 16 November 2009

KONTROVERSI FILM KIAMAT 2012

2012
Masalah kiamat sudah menjadi perbincangan sejak lama. Diawali dengan munculnya ramalan kiamat oleh suku Maya. Bahwa, kiamat akan terjadi pada tahun 2012.

Isu ini makin heboh dengan dirilisnya film layar lebar berjudul 2012, yang sudah diputar serentak di beberapa bioskop.

Kecanggihan efek khusus dalam film bertema hari kiamat membuat bulu kuduk berdiri. Atmosfer itulah yang bisa Anda rasakan saat menonton film 2012. Film ini menyuguhkan dahsyatnya kiamat pada 12 Desember 2012. Film berdurasi 158 menit ini mampu meraih keuntungan US$65 juta selama 3 hari penayangannya di seluruh biokop di Amerika Serikat.

Dikisahkan, Warga dunia panik saat ramalan suku Indian Maya Inca Peru tentang kiamat menjadi kenyataan. Patung Kristus Sang Penebus yang berdiri kokoh di Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, hancur berkeping-keping. Hujan meteor berbola api disusul gempa mengguncang hebat. Yang tak kalah menggetarkan, Basilika Gereja Santo Petrus di Vatikan, runtuh.

Kita akan terpana menyaksikan kapal perang USS John F Kennedy tak berdaya diamuk badai dan akhirnya karam. Dalam film beranggaran US$ 200 juta ini, sutradara Roland Emmerich memasang sejumlah nama yang tak asing lagi di dunia sinema. Seperti John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Danny Glover, Oliver Platt, dan Woody Harelson

Hasilnya,... film ini menuai banyak kontroversi :
Rektor UIN Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta Amien Abdullah kepada INILAH.COM, Jakarta, Senin kemarin mengatakan bahwa, hal ini lebih bahaya dari Miyabi .Menurutnya, film 2012 yang kini sudah diputar di Indonesia itu merupakan film sensasional yang sudah menyentuh wilayah agama dan kepercayaan. Seharusnya, sebelum film itu diputar LSF (Lembaga Sensor Film) mengadakan debat publik terlebih dahulu soal film itu sebelum memberikan sertifikasi lulus sensor.

Sebab, sambungnya, peradaban bangsa Indonesia masih tergolong rendah yang mudah percaya dengan sesuatu yang sensasional. Karena film itu kini sudah diputar, LSF perlu melakukan sensor terhadap efek yang dihasilkan film itu agar tidak membuat masyarakat semakin resah.

Meski berpotensi menimbulkan keresahan di masyarakat, Guru Besar Filsafat Agama itu berpendapat film 2012 tidak perlu dilarang peredarannya.

Mustafa salah seorang anggota FPI pada kesempatan terpisah menyatakan,"Film 2012 nampaknya bisa menghipnotis semua orang yang menonton bahwa kiamat memang nyata akan terjadi pada saat itu. Percaya dengan film itu sama saja dengan musyrik. Jangan sampai setelah nonton film ini membuat aktivitas dan kinerja pemerintah jadi menurun. Mentang-mentang 2012 mau kiamat, jadi malas-malasan menyelesaikan tugasnya sebagai wakil rakyat. Padahal pemerintahan baru akan berakhir pada 2014,"

KH. ABDUSSOMAD BUCHORI Ketua MUI Jawa Timur, menyatakan bahwa meskipun hanya berupa film fiksi ilmiah, kekuatannya mampu untuk membentuk opini publik. Jika opini ini sudah diyakini tanpa didasari Al Qur’an yang menjadi pegangan bagi umat Muslim,maka ini jelas akan merusak akidah.

Film ini juga telah menimbulkan banyak korban dikalangan siswa saya yang baru nonton, maksudnya korban 'tobat seketika', tapi menurut mereka,..... ada juga yang tobatnya hanya kayak lagu ST12 aja, tobatnya hanya 1 jam saja.

Di Amerika, isu kiamat juga sudah santer. Karena isu itu pula, para ilmuwan Badan Antariksa Amerika Serikat (NASA) meluncurkan halaman di situs resminya yang membantah mitos-mitos seputar peristiwa itu. “Tak ada suatu hal yang buruk terjadi di bumi pada 2012,” demikian keterangan resmi NASA.



Namun di balik semua itu. Kontroversi ini hanya membuat film ini semakin laris...... karena semakin banyak saja yang kepingin nonton.....

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Dalam agama Islam , dikenal adanya dua kiamat. Yaitu, Kiamat Sughro dan Kiamat Kubro.

Kiamat Sughro, yaitu ketika ada suatu masa dimana terjadi penzaliman besar-besaran terhadap kebenaran.

Kiamat Sughro atau kiamat kecil terjadi ketika orang-orang bodoh dan lalim menjadi penguasa, dimana terjadi penzaliman besar-besaran terhadap kebenaran dan ketika orang-orang pandai dan para ilmuwan sudah menjual kebenaran untuk kenikmatan dunia.

Kiamat Sughro terjadi ketika orang-orang yang lemah dan tertindas, tak ada lagi yang membela. Dan, kiamat kecil terjadi ketika orang-orang yang teraniaya sudah tidak tahu lagi kemana harus mengadu. Di situlah terjadi kiamat kecil, di mana Tuhan akan memberikan adzab. (kalau kita bersama merenungkan situasi sekarang ini,....... apakah hal ini sudah terjadi?)

Sementara, Kiamat Kubro adalah Kiamat Besar dimana Malaikat Isrofil meniup sangkakala.

Jadi, kapan kiamat tiba? Tidak penting kapan tiba.yang penting mari kita mempersiapkan diri untuk itu. Asal, masih ada harapan akan keadilan, kebenaran dan ketakwaan terhadap Tuhan.

Minggu, 01 Maret 2009

Conservaties Pick Romney

From ABC News' The Note:
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has chosen former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as the winner of the first Republican straw poll of the 2012 campaign.
With 20 percent of the vote, Romney finished ahead of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who received 14 percent, as well as Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, who each had 13 percent.
"For the hat trick, Mitt Romney takes his third straight straw poll," said Tony Fabrizio, the Republican pollster who tabulates CPAC's annual straw poll results.
Rounding out the rest of the results: former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., received 10 percent, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee received 7 percent, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford received 4 percent, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani received 3 percent, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty received 2 percent and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist received 1 percent. Nine percent indicated that they are undecided. The rest of the straw poll participants wrote in someone else's name.
While announcing the straw poll results, Fabrizio relished the fact that Crist, who took a high-profile role in supporting President Barack Obama's stimulus package, finished in last place with 1 percent.
"Coming in last place is Barack Obama's favorite Republican, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist," said Fabrizio.

Rabu, 25 Februari 2009

Jindal: The Antidote?

From Marina Jimenez in Toronto's Globe and Mail:
He is the Republican party's wunderkind. His family's triumph-over-adversity narrative is nearly as powerful as that of U.S. President Barack Obama's. And now, Bobby Jindal, the 37-year-old Governor of Louisiana, is . . . becoming a household name — [launched] onto the national platform on prime-time television . . . as the Republican party's rebuttal to the President's address to Congress.
It's a moment in history that's being compared to the keynote address a then-unknown Mr. Obama delivered in 2004 at the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
And like Mr. Obama, Mr. Jindal's political star is on the rise — as are the odds of a run for the Republican nomination for president in 2012. . . .
Born Piyush Jindal in Baton Rouge, La., Mr. Jindal adopted the name Bobby as a child, apparently after the character in the Brady Bunch, according to his family.
His parents immigrated from the Punjab to the United States so that his mother, pregnant with him at the time, could continue her graduate work in nuclear physics. His father, an engineer, was one of nine children from a poor rural family in Indian Punjab.
A graduate of Brown University, Mr. Jindal was a Rhodes Scholar and went on to work for the elite consulting firm McKinsey & Company.
Born a Hindu, he converted to Roman Catholicism in high school, and also has links to Baptist and Pentecostal congregations. At 25, he was named secretary of Louisiana's department of health. Mr. Jindal ran for governor in 2003 and lost. The following year he was elected to Congress, and in 2007, made a successful bid for governor. He and his wife Supriya Jolly have three young children.
He is widely considered to be an effective leader, his response to last fall's Hurricane Gustav praised for its efficiency. His biggest challenge has been to deal with a legislature that voted to more than double its take-home pay from $16,800 to $37,500.
Aside from their visible minority backgrounds and young families, Mr. Obama and Mr. Jindal differ markedly in style and substance.
While Mr. Obama projects a relaxed demeanour and had an unconventional upbringing, Mr. Jindal is meticulous, and very conservative. His campaign platform centred on a promise to cut taxes, ban abortion and introduce ethics reform. He opposes embryonic stem cell research and same-sex marriage.
Mr. Jindal has travelled quite a bit outside the state raising funds and is routinely named as a possible presidential candidate in 2012. He hasn't officially declared his interest — nor has he ruled it out. His unofficial campaign just received an unprecedented boost, a prime-time television appearance that may catapult him ahead of his rivals.

Minggu, 22 Februari 2009

New Friends In Boston

I recently returned from a business trip to Boston.
I hadn’t been to Boston in decades so I didn’t know what to expect.
But it looked much the same as I remembered it and folks there still remain a bit more reserved than they are in Philadelphia.
And yet – I DID manage to trigger some spontaneous responses from Bostonians and others. Just for fun on my first night I wore a lapel pin that said: “Is it 2012 yet?”
As soon as I got on the hotel elevator someone leaned over and commended me on the button. This young man was so taken with the button’s sentiment that he had to know where I got it so he could get one too.
Then, I was off to a nearby hotel to meet a colleague.
As I entered the hotel the doorman asked me about the button. He wanted to be sure of what it meant. I told him and he promptly beamed and shook my hand.
“I wasn’t sure I would get that reaction here in the People’s Republic of Taxachusetts,” I joked.
“Oh no man, he answered. I’m with you all the way. There are a lot of us here.”
By this time I was beginning to feel quite relaxed.
When the evening ended I returned to my own hotel and the bellman at my hotel asked me about the button. Again, I explained the sentiment. This guy was even more enthusiastic. He threw his arms around me. I told him that I didn’t want to get him into trouble as he probably wasn’t supposed to be expressing or endorsing political viewpoints on the job.
He didn’t care. He simply laughed about it and told me not to be concerned.
And so began my trip to Boston.
BTW: You can get “Is it 2010 yet?” buttons and bumper stickers at gopshoppe.com.