The foundation of Singapore's religious harmony
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If can't access above link, click HERE
IGNORE THE WHITE PATCHES IF U SEE ANY ....I don't know what they're doing there....
Speech by PM Lee in New York recently....A good read to get a grasp on the context of Singapore....
Singapore's population: racially and religiously diverse - 5.7 million Chinese, Malays, Indians, Eurasians and others
Some of the measures in place to promote racial harmony/equality:
=Presidential Council for Minority Rights
=Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act
=In parliamentary elections, political parties are required to present multiracial slates to contest multi-member seats. You put up a team of four, five or six - one member of the team must belong to the minority race designated for that constituency ...The point of this is to discourage political parties from championing particular racial or religious groups, and dividing our society along primordial fault lines.
=We amended the Constitution to ensure that our president, who is a directly elected head of state - we ensure that he or she will come from one of the minority races, if no president from that race has been elected for some time.
=in public housing estates, where houses are sold to people and after some years you can then freely transact and resell the houses - we have ensured that in every township, every precinct, every residential block, we have an ethnically mixed population....Since over 80 per cent of Singaporeans live in public housing, we have no racial enclaves, we have no ghettos.
=In our schools, students of all races and religions study together.
=in our media, we do not allow blasphemous cartoons, songs or other offensive material that denigrates or disparages other races or faiths, whether this is done in the name of entertainment or freedom of speech
=For example, mosques tone down their loudspeakers that carry the prayer call, the azan, and to make up for this, we broadcast the azan on national radio...On their part, Christians exercise restraint proselytising to people of other faithsthe Inter-Religious Organisation
=Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (Pofma)
If can't access above link, click HERE
IGNORE THE WHITE PATCHES IF U SEE ANY ....I don't know what they're doing there....
Speech by PM Lee in New York recently....A good read to get a grasp on the context of Singapore....
Singapore's population: racially and religiously diverse - 5.7 million Chinese, Malays, Indians, Eurasians and others
Some of the measures in place to promote racial harmony/equality:
=Presidential Council for Minority Rights
=Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act
=In parliamentary elections, political parties are required to present multiracial slates to contest multi-member seats. You put up a team of four, five or six - one member of the team must belong to the minority race designated for that constituency ...The point of this is to discourage political parties from championing particular racial or religious groups, and dividing our society along primordial fault lines.
=We amended the Constitution to ensure that our president, who is a directly elected head of state - we ensure that he or she will come from one of the minority races, if no president from that race has been elected for some time.
=in public housing estates, where houses are sold to people and after some years you can then freely transact and resell the houses - we have ensured that in every township, every precinct, every residential block, we have an ethnically mixed population....Since over 80 per cent of Singaporeans live in public housing, we have no racial enclaves, we have no ghettos.
=In our schools, students of all races and religions study together.
=in our media, we do not allow blasphemous cartoons, songs or other offensive material that denigrates or disparages other races or faiths, whether this is done in the name of entertainment or freedom of speech
=For example, mosques tone down their loudspeakers that carry the prayer call, the azan, and to make up for this, we broadcast the azan on national radio...On their part, Christians exercise restraint proselytising to people of other faithsthe Inter-Religious Organisation
=Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (Pofma)
Vocab: Policing the Internet is a Sisyphean task [exercise in futility....in the myth, the guy pushes rock up hill, only to have it roll down again, so he has to come down to push it up again -- endless cycle where the task is never accomplished]
Good Quotation: "A crime committed in the name of religion is the greatest crime against religion."
posted by Dark Shadow | 1:10 PM
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