[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_column_text]Organizers:<\/b> Youths of Darul Arqam (YODA) and Darul Arqam Singapore<\/p>\n
Date, Time & Venue:<\/b> 28th September 2013, 2pm-5pm, Masjid Sultan Auditorium.<\/p>\n
Motion<\/b>: Cultural and Religious Diversity in Singapore is Tolerated But Not Celebrated.<\/p>\n
Teams:<\/span><\/p>\n Praxis \u2013 Proposition (Winners)<\/p>\n 1) Noor Hanisah<\/p>\n 2) Siti Nur Atiqah (Best Speaker)<\/p>\n 3) Nur Zahirah<\/p>\n 4) Muhammad Haziq<\/p>\n 5) Munira (Reserve)<\/p>\n NUS 1 \u2013 Opposition<\/p>\n 1) Abdul Hakeem<\/p>\n 2) Nur Abidah<\/p>\n 3) Nazihah Husna<\/p>\n 4) Nurul Huda Atiqa<\/p>\n 5) Nadiah Aqilah (Reserve)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_gallery type=”flexslider_fade” interval=”3″ images=”4768,4767,4770″ onclick=”link_no” custom_links_target=”_self” img_size=”400×280″][vc_column_text]Chairperson: Abu Sufyan<\/p>\n Adjudicators:<\/p>\n 1) Sim Khadijah Bte Mohamed \u2013 Assistant Registrar with The Supreme Court (Chief Adjudicator)<\/p>\n 2) Ustaz Saif-ur-Rahman<\/p>\n 3) Dr Albakri Ahmad \u2013 Dean of MUIS Academy<\/p>\n 4) Guy Ghazali \u2013 Lawyer with Tan, Rajah & Cheah<\/p>\n 5) Hyder Gulam \u2013 Qualified Lawyer and Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing<\/p>\n Team Praxis emerged as Grand Champions of the Singapore Muslim Youth Debate 2013 after deservedly beating Team NUS 1.<\/p>\n Being the more confident side, Team Praxis laid out their points and arguments in a clear and concise manner as opposed to Team NUS 1 who seemed unable to gain any sort of momentum throughout the Debate Round.<\/p>\n What stood out for Team Praxis though was their debunking of Team NUS 1\u2019s arguments in the Rebuttal Round. Dr Albakri Ahmad, Dean of MUIS Academy, agreed:<\/p>\n \u201cThey are very good at rebuttal, I think they won when they rebutted the arguments of the opposition but generally it was a very close match,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Siti Nur Atiqah of Team Praxis bagged the Best Speaker award for the Grand Finals, completing a hat trick of Best Speaker awards throughout the entire competition.<\/p>\n Chief Adjudicator Sim Khadijah Binte Mohamed described her as someone who \u201cdid embody a lot of very good debating and advocacy skills\u201d and was very sharp at attacking the heart of the arguments and coming up with the best rebuttals.<\/p>\n Team Praxis, arguing for the motion \u201cCultural and Religious Diversity in Singapore is Tolerated But Not Celebrated\u201d, centered and solidified their stand based on the lack of trust Singaporeans have towards the different religious and cultural practices.<\/p>\n They used clear examples such as the negative perception of local Muslims after the September 11 attack, widespread disagreement over foreign worker dorms being built in neighborhoods and open discrimination in online platforms to further cement their position.<\/p>\n On the other hand, opposition Team NUS 1 built their stand around various government initiatives for diversity and events such as the Chingay Parade and Pink Dot.<\/p>\n Unfortunately for Team NUS 1, Team Praxis were able to rebut and tear down their examples by explaining that efforts at embracing diversity are only present on the executive level of the country but not in the public at large.<\/p>\n Team Praxis also pointed out that Singaporeans are generally still conservative, especially towards issues such as homosexuality and that events such as Pink Dot were attended by only a tiny fraction of the community.<\/p>\n The fourth run of the annual Muslim Youth Debate organized by the Youths of Darul Arqam, now renamed as the Singapore Muslim Youth Debate, saw an auditorium fully packed with supporters, participants and families.<\/p>\n Also present was Mr Muhd Faiz Edwin Ignatious M, President of Darul Arqam, Mr Ridzuan Wu, Deputy President of Darul Arqam and Mr Ariff Sultan, Vice President of Darul Arqam\u2019s Da\u2019wah Division.<\/p>\n The Singapore Muslim Youth Debate, first started in 2010, was set up to encourage youths to come together to discuss and debate various contemporary issues affecting the community.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is an excellent platform for youths to do research and reading but also to keep abreast with the issues that they are currently facing,\u201d said Dr Albakri Ahmad. \u201cAnd it is an exemplary method of getting the youth to be engaging, to participate and organize events like this on this scale.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Most of the participants of this year\u2019s competition were first time debaters. Abdul Hakeem of Team NUS 1 said that his whole team had no prior debating experience when they entered the completion, not expecting that they would be able to reach the finals.<\/p>\n For Muhammad Haziq of Team Praxis, which claimed the title of Grand Champions, it was also his first time debating.<\/p>\n \u201cNone of us were part of Team Praxis (last year)\u2026 In my team only one of them had prior debating experience,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Regarding his team\u2019s strategy throughout the competition, Haziq said that they would dissect the key terms of the motion, explore the definitions, lie out the perimeter of debate and then assign their roles.<\/p>\n \u201cWe will elaborate on each other\u2019s points so the next time we meet up we\u2019ll critic on each others points. So technically before the debate we\u2019ll have a debate between ourselves first so we\u2019ll manage to cover up most of our flaws before hand,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The competition\u2019s overall-in-charge Miss Nur Hani Nasir, who was also in charge last year, explained that the universities\u2019 participation this time round helped inject more challenge into the competition.<\/p>\n \u201cEspecially if you look at it as a university versus a madrasah and a madrasah student is as young as 15-years-old against the 22 to 23-year-old students (from universities). So it\u2019s a big challenge for them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n There was feedback that the competition\u2019s wide age range of 15-25 would present a disadvantage to teams with younger participants who are mostly from Madrasahs. Addressing this, Miss Nur Hani explained that the younger Madrasah students would have teachers to guide them through their research and have their school\u2019s support while the university teams are mostly on their own.<\/p>\n Regarding improvements for next year, Miss Nur Hani said that the team would look into further improving and refining the motions of debate and possibly, the judging system, \u201cBecause now the adjudicators go by vote but we have some feedback on why don\u2019t you go by point system? Definitely we\u2019ll take that into consideration but we may or may not adopt that.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_column_text]Organizers: Youths of Darul Arqam (YODA) and Darul Arqam Singapore Date, Time & Venue: 28th September 2013, 2pm-5pm, Masjid Sultan Auditorium. Motion: Cultural and Religious Diversity in Singapore is Tolerated But Not Celebrated. 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The Debate<\/h2>\n
The Singapore Muslim Youth Debate 2013<\/h2>\n