MHA to look into 'racist, xenophobic' remarks by religious teacher over coronavirus: Shanmugam

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SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) will look into the remarks made by a religious teacher over the deadly novel coronavirus, that has ...

SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Home Affairs will look into the remarks made by a religious teacher over the deadly novel coronavirus, that has so farIn a Facebook post on Friday , Minister of Law and Home Affairs K Shanmugam said that theREAD: Singaporeans have been 'pitching in' to deal with Wuhan coronavirus threat: Shanmugam

"He says that the coronavirus was retribution by Allah against Chinese for oppressing Muslim Uighurs. Such remarks are silly, can be rebutted by reference to other examples," said the minister. "It is to be welcomed that MUIS, PERGAS, the Association of Muslim Professionals, the Religious Rehabilitation Group, Muhammadiyah Association, and Singapore Kadayanallur Muslim League have spoken up to urge Singaporeans not to make insensitive comments," he added.Mr Abdul Halim's comments were"quite unacceptable from anyone, let alone someone who is supposed to be a religious teacher", said Mr Shanmugam in the Facebook post.

"We took action because if such comments are normalised, with regular attacks along racial lines, then interracial relations will worsen – and the minorities will in fact be worse off,"said Mr Shanmugam.who had published"a throroughly racist video".

 

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Its not racist please theres so many from other races doing the same thing too every other day

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