"Ex-religious teacher and student issued restriction orders under Internal Security Act: MHA
SINGAPORE: Two Singaporeans – a former religious teacher and one of his students - have been issued restriction orders under the Internal Security Act (ISA), the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) announced on Wednesday (Jan 16).
Freelance religious teacher Murad Mohd Said, 46, was placed on the order on Dec 5 last year for “propagating beliefs promoting violence and views detrimental to the cohesion of Singapore's multi-racial and multi-religious society”, said MHA.
This is the first time a restriction order has been issued to a previously recognised religious teacher. Murad was accredited under the Asatizah Recognition Scheme (ARS), which recognises teachers and scholars who meet the minimum standards of qualification to teach Islamic religious knowledge.
"He (Murad) taught that it was compulsory to kill apostates, defined broadly to include non-believers, Sufis, Shi'ites and Muslims who have renounced Islam or disregarded texts and rulings from the Quran and Sunnah," MHA said in a media release.
"He also taught that Muslims were allowed to defend themselves by waging 'armed jihad' against 'infidels who persecuted them'."
Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam said the orders are a clear indication that authorities will act under the ISA "whenever society is threatened"."
This threat of radicalisation will be there n unlikely to b totally eradicated as human minds cannot b monitored or caged! The human minds r free n can receive information or even create information fr a thought.
This is especially so when information r in abundance n fairly easy to access anytime anywhere on any devices!
The defence will b the rational mind triumphs over the emotional responses normally. However, when it comes to religion, it is, by nature, a totally emotional matter as many of them exhort their followers n believers to accept what rational minds will find illogical or strange!
So, the next line of defence will rely on recognition n identification of radicalized persons. As in this case.
The evidence shared by the authorities on the x-religious teacher's teaching that r against the harmonious coexistence of our multiracial n multireligious society CLEARLY shows that he MUST BE stopped!
In detention without trial under ISA is required, so n it. Though some will argue he has not acted on his so called intentions!!
As for the student, hopefully he or she can b helped to get back on the main stream faster.
Keep fighting radicalisation in Sgp!!
SINGAPORE: Two Singaporeans – a former religious teacher and one of his students - have been issued restriction orders under the Internal Security Act (ISA), the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) announced on Wednesday (Jan 16).
Freelance religious teacher Murad Mohd Said, 46, was placed on the order on Dec 5 last year for “propagating beliefs promoting violence and views detrimental to the cohesion of Singapore's multi-racial and multi-religious society”, said MHA.
This is the first time a restriction order has been issued to a previously recognised religious teacher. Murad was accredited under the Asatizah Recognition Scheme (ARS), which recognises teachers and scholars who meet the minimum standards of qualification to teach Islamic religious knowledge.
"He (Murad) taught that it was compulsory to kill apostates, defined broadly to include non-believers, Sufis, Shi'ites and Muslims who have renounced Islam or disregarded texts and rulings from the Quran and Sunnah," MHA said in a media release.
"He also taught that Muslims were allowed to defend themselves by waging 'armed jihad' against 'infidels who persecuted them'."
Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam said the orders are a clear indication that authorities will act under the ISA "whenever society is threatened"."
This threat of radicalisation will be there n unlikely to b totally eradicated as human minds cannot b monitored or caged! The human minds r free n can receive information or even create information fr a thought.
This is especially so when information r in abundance n fairly easy to access anytime anywhere on any devices!
The defence will b the rational mind triumphs over the emotional responses normally. However, when it comes to religion, it is, by nature, a totally emotional matter as many of them exhort their followers n believers to accept what rational minds will find illogical or strange!
So, the next line of defence will rely on recognition n identification of radicalized persons. As in this case.
The evidence shared by the authorities on the x-religious teacher's teaching that r against the harmonious coexistence of our multiracial n multireligious society CLEARLY shows that he MUST BE stopped!
In detention without trial under ISA is required, so n it. Though some will argue he has not acted on his so called intentions!!
As for the student, hopefully he or she can b helped to get back on the main stream faster.
Keep fighting radicalisation in Sgp!!
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