Singapore warns preachers

[dArKeR]

Singapore - Foreign religious preachers who work in Singapore without permits will be prosecuted to prevent the introduction of extremist ideas, Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng warned on Friday.

Wong also said that Singaporeans who join extremist groups abroad will be considered as security threats in Singapore even if they take up arms in a foreign land.

He said extremist teachings that breed militants and terrorists must be stopped and religious groups which operate in a clandestine manner should be investigated.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,6119,2-10-1462_1544784,00.html

[kerrycrat2k4]

1. Maybe Singapore should worry

About the massive AIDS crisis and the objectification of women before they start encroaching on the right of the people to worship freely.

[truthspeaker]

2. There's a difference between worship and prosyletizing

Not that I necessarily approve of this, but it seems they are targeting people spreading religious extremism - the same kind of religious extremism that prevents AIDS education and promotes the objectification of women (not to mention terrorism).

[jukes]

3. that's

how i read it, ts.

[Roaming]

4. Evangelism is not extremism; extremism is terrorism; I wonder

thought if this law is going to be interpreted to try to get rid of any religion they don't agree with.

[truthspeaker]

5. true, but extremists evangelize

[CO Liberal]

6. Like The Theocrats Want To Do Here???

By turning the US in to a Bible-based country????

[Pale_Rider]

7. I believe this is largely targeted for S'pore's large Muslim ...

... community in response to the arrest either last year or the year before of several members of a terrorist cell that were doing recruitment. S'pore is rich in American and British targets.

S'pore is a 'fine' city ...