Singapore Democrats

Hello, if you had been in this trade long enough, naturally the referee had high respect for you

+Try to compare the both

~A new kid on the block said the same thing that would be label instantly "Chinese Chauvinism" a danger to our society, that is the end of his political career

~As for the old senoir, the right wing media will just brush it away. That's Lee alright, he is a straight shooter we had to know & accept

Off the record, why grandfather Sir Alex kept on his criticism on the referee and players game after game? We can see he had lost his winning touch, its a sign of retirement

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"Most Chinese here are Buddhists or Taoists...I am one of them." No quarrel with that.

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Given the angle that this article is written from, there isn't really a problem with the rejoinder, "No quarrel with that" because it is factually correct. However, the reason that someone who is a Buddhist only in name would make such a statement for the consumption of the international community makes the racist Lee Kuan Yew's statement highly circumspect.

In another context, I would have had a quarrel with the rejoinder as above because the fuller quote from the interview was actually, "You see most Chinese here are Buddhists or Taoist ancestor worshippers, I’m one of them, so it is a tolerant society, it says whatever you want to believe in, you go ahead."

Also in the preceeding statements he made to NG in the above interview, he was actually distancing himself - like his son did at the NDR speech last year - from the Chritian Taliban that they found much common ground with because they share Lee Kuan Yew's harsh and punitive attitudes towards everyone who is not like them. In other words, he is - and has always been - the most intolerant psrson there could be yet he tried to throw even more smoke in the international community's eyes by now alligning himself with the more tolerant Buddhists and Taoists - he has typically left out Hindus, without whom the world would never known the concept of religious tolerance, the shortcomings within the Hindu religion notwithstanding.

He falsifies himself further by saying that as Buddhist, he believes that "whatever you want to believe in, you go ahead".

If only we had even the tiniest shred of evidence that he is describing himself and not the Mahatma Gandhi or the buddha himself.

Re: "...will your Malay neighbour give you the last few grains of rice or will she share it with her family or fellow Muslim or vice versa?”

As importantly, will your Chinese neighbour give you the last few grains of rice, which incidentally is insufficient to save the life of even a two-week old infant but is a useful molodrama to conjure to show up to the whole world the true evil in the Singapore Malay/Muslim? (For a country which imports 100% of its food, in the event of a famine in any one of its source countries, substitute source countries can be very easily found. So long as not 100% of all agricultural countries are in famine at the same time.)

How about the racist Lee Kuan Yew? After robbing the country of millions of dollars and stashing them away in secret accounts all over the world, would he himself give not a few grains, but entire meals to all Malays in the vent of a famine?

Why only put the Malays in a spot if he isn't prepared to answer the same questions about his ill-gotten wealth - loot - and how he would spend it in a famine?

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_483139.html

Jan 28, 2010
Don't cast protest vote: MM
By Sue-Ann Chia, Senior Political Correspondent
The Government, Mr Lee (above) said, has to price the flats at a level which is fair, not only to current buyers but past and future buyers, as it will affect property prices. -- ST PHOTO: LAU FOOK KONG

THE current contentious issue on the affordability of public housing was given another airing by Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew who cautioned Singaporeans not to cast a protest vote against the ruling party over this.

As Singaporeans lament rising flat prices, he said they ought to understand that the Government sells them at a subsidised price, below market rate, so that they can own an asset that will appreciate in value over the years.

It adds to their wealth and this is an asset-enhancing policy Mr Lee believes citizens should not find fault with.

If they do, they must be 'daft', he said, at a dialogue during a housing conference as part of a series of events to mark the Housing and Development Board's 50th anniversary.

And if National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan is unable to defend this policy, 'he deserves to lose' at the next general election, he quipped, to laughter from the participants, including a chuckling Mr Mah.

But if Mr Mah loses to the opposition, he warned that Singaporeans better sell their flats fast as they would no longer be of any value.

He dare to call himself a buddhist ? A true buddhist does not behave in this way

Its a disgrace and embarassement for a political leader to come out out with such bigoted and shallow comments. Maybe he is still bitter about the events that caused him to cry over the separation from malaysia many years ago. What his opinion on race issues have now vindicated the malay leaders suspicions that lky only interest is to be the absolute leader of a federation of malaya. He has completely lost the plot the smell of desperation is thick in the air now its close to election time.

What LKY said has to be viewed in context with the resurgence of conservative Islamism.

Conservative Islamism is rather unfriendly towards non-Muslims.

Concerning head-dresses, I remember my Malay friends sometime back not wearing them. Does this mean that they were "less Muslims"? I had no doubts that they were very good Muslims then and now. So LKY may have a point.

Is this in violation of the Sedition Act?

Under the Sedition Act, anyone found guilty of promoting feelings of ill will and hostility between different races or classes of the Singapore population shall be liable, on conviction for a first offence, to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or both.