Sufiah Yusof adalah seorang pelajar genius math university oxford rakyat Malaysia. Sufiah memecah rekod menjadi menjadi pelajar oxford yang paling muda namun ramai musuh Islam tidak suka perkara itu. Sufiah di lagakan membeci keluarga nya dan akhirnya lari dari rumah ke keluarga 'angkat' bahasa Inggeris. Sekarang pada Sufiah juga di kenali 'Shipa Lee' 23 adalah seorang pelacur yang terpaksa melacur untuk membayar yuran pengajian. Namun berita di bawah menunjukkan konspirasi musuh islam untuk merosakkan sebarang yang berharga di miliki ummah. This weekend Sufiah Yusof, the runaway child prodigy, is contemplating a future turned upside down as she settles in with foster parents in Bournemouth. Social workers will be coaxing the 15-year-old, who seemed so happy and self-assured when she won a place at Oxford three years ago, to explain why she disappeared the day after her final exam of the year; and why, since being found by the police after two weeks in hiding, she still refuses to return home or allow her family to know where she is.
They will also want to understand the meaning of an e-mail she sent to her parents, Farooq and Halimahton Yusof (photo), at their home in Coventry after she read newspaper reports of their appeal for her return. She wrote: "Has it ever crossed your mind that the reason I left home was because I've finally had enough of 15 years of physical and emotional abuse (to paraphrase yourself, a 'living hell')?" For their part, the Yusofs proclaimed that their "naive and unstreetwise" daughter had been abducted and brainwashed, denying any suggestion of abuse of her or any of their five children, all of whom are gifted in maths.
"What is important is that Sufiah is safe," said her mother. "We need to give her time. We must find out what happened, why she left. The truth is with Sufiah. We just want the situation to calm down." Farooq Yusof denied suggestions of a serious rift with his daughter. He had not been abusive, as she alleged, he said. "Never. I love my daughter. There are third parties involved.
This is being investigated." In a message for Sufiah he added: "We love her very, very much, no matter what has happened, no matter what she has said, no matter what has been said by the papers. It is totally unimportant. We just love her and want her to come home."
It was always an unusual household. What strikes visitors to the Yusof home is a sense of well-ordered and disciplined calm, something rare in a household with five children. None of the children runs in to pester their father when he is speaking to callers, to settle a childish row, or to ask to watch television. They remain quietly upstairs with their mother or tiptoe to the kitchen to help prepare food for the family, who follow the strict Muslim traditions of Sufism and pray several times a day. The "classroom" contains a blackboard, a computer, shelves of books and enough desks and chairs to seat all the family.
Their detached post-war house is, they say, rented from the Warwick University campus in Coventry, where two of their other children, now aged 14 and 17, are in their second year of a maths degree course. Athough Sufiah was the first to gain a university place three years ago when she was 13, equalling the record set by the Oxford maths prodigy Ruth Lawrence, the following year her brother Iskander beat them both when at 12 he became the youngest child to enter university. He and their older sister Aisha set yet another record by becoming the youngest siblings to win university places.
The youngest child, six-year-old Zuleika, could turn out to be the brightest of all. According to her father, she could talk at one, read by two, and by five had reached A- level maths standard. Yusof considered entering her for the exam but has apparently changed his mind. Perhaps he is having second houghts about how fast to accelerate the learning of one so young.
The Yusofs always claimed they gave up academic careers, he as a uiversity researcher in maths, she in chemistry, to educate their children at home. In fact, the hothousing apparently started after Farooq Yusof left prison in 1994. The family said they were living on savings and earnings as freelance esearchers, but money must have been tight raising five children without a regular income.
Yusof has courted publicity since Sufiah was offered her Oxford place in January 1997. Using a freelance agency in Northampton, where they then lived, the family featured in national newspapers recording the latest achievements of their children and promoting their strict eaching regime. Yusof claimed that government ministers were interested in his methods and that he was negotiating a £40,000 book deal. His concern with money was referred to with bitterness in Sufiah's e-mail: "You ruined my brother's life because you wanted him to make lots of money for you winning tennis tournaments."
This is taken to refer to the eldest child, Isaac Abraham, 18, who did not go to university. Like all his siblings, he was skilled at maths besides excelling at tennis, but a wrist injury put paid to his ambition to become a professional player. To his father's disappointment, he now works at McDonald's. Aisha and Iskander were not offered places at Oxford but went to Warwick on condition, the university authorities insisted, that the publicity stopped. It created a logistical dilemma: where should the family live?
The parents decided to take it in turns, one staying in rented accommodation in Oxford, the other at the house in Coventry. The signs of a rift between Sufiah and her father were clear in the weeks before her exams. When her mother stayed in Oxford, say students, Sufiah was happy. But when Yusof took her place, Sufiah would return to a room she could use in college.
Her independence seems to have developed slowly in her three years at St Hilda's. Although she joined several groups, including the Islamic Society and the mathematics and Malaysian associations, she remained reserved and isolated.
"You'll have a job finding anyone who really knew her," said Laura Paskell-Brown, 20, a student who befriended Sufiah 18 months ago. "She struck me as very shy.
"She was into new ideas and human rights and she supported the students in the campaign against tuition fees all along. I used to see her sitting alone."
Another maths student, Jo Charman, recalled: "I cannot remember her ever talking about her family or her life outside the college to anyone. She always wore dark colours and she started wearing a headdress halfway into the second year.
"Every day after lectures she used to leave and go straight home. She had a residence in Oxford but she never took anyone there. She never told me anything about her private life."
Charman was one of the last students to speak to Sufiah before she disappeared. She remembers her talking about the pressures they were under. "I spoke to her before the algebra exam, which I was taking as well, and she was very nervous and told me she was dreading it. I never suspected that she was about to run away."
Police sources insist that Sufiah was not lured away in any conspiracy. She made her own way by rail to Bournemouth, where she could move unnoticed among the town's 30,000 foreign students. Police were tipped off by the owner of a hotel, where she had found a job, after he saw her photograph in newspapers and she was picked up outside a Bournemouth cybercafe, the Click 'n' Link.
According to a source at Thames Valley police, "the matter is now closed" and they "have no reason to think that she was enticed or helped to run away by a third party".
Bournemouth social services department is waiting to find out what she wants to do next. Whether she returns to her family, or to Oxford, remains to be seen.
"We are doing all we can to support Sufiah in all her wishes and to make sure she is in a safe and protected environment," said a spokesman.""
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