Shanmugam urges opposition parties to ‘immediately, clearly’ reject foreign interference and identity politics
Singapore’s Home Affairs Minister referred to statements during GE2025 by Islamic preacher Noor Deros and politicians from Malaysia’s Islamist party, and what he said was the delayed and “ambiguous” response to these from the Workers’ Party.
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I don't get Shanmugam's point about how WP should had responded faster. There were hundreds of thousands of social media posts made about the GE in those periods. The government had the benefit of having the civil service to trawl through the Internet for problematic posts. Are we expecting the oppositions to somehow also know what everyone is saying?
Great point. Honestly, it's damn disappointing and frustrating the PAP keeps playing this race thing up. I have kind of made it my mission to support the alternative voice so that the PAP can one day learn their lesson, that not everything they say is the gospel truth.
I don't see PAP rejecting Critical Spectator when he's obviously foreign
Looks like Kenneth Tiong read your comment: "Aljunied GRC MP Kenneth Tiong says Mr Shanmugam has set clear bars for responding to foreign influence, immediacy and categorical rejection. He asks if the minister will now apply those same standards to Mr Michael Petraeus, a Polish national who runs a media platform known as Critical Spectator. Mr Tiong says that the platform has published 'racially charged commentary' on Singapore politics, including a piece that includes in its title ‘WP abandons Muslim voters, turns to the Chinese’. His platform was previously taken down from Facebook for policy violations, but he continues to try to influence Singapore politics from his 'foreign perch', this time favouring the PAP, Mr Tiong says. 'Will the PAP categorically reject and disavow his support today, just as the minister demanded that the Workers' Party do so within 24 hours?'"
Kenneth Tiong asked that and Shan asked should the government suppress whatever foreign commentators write.
Shan's opposing for the sake of opposing the WP, not surprised but it's still disappointing. Pritam conceded that his party could have made a clearer statement regarding Noor Deros, but Shan wouldn't admit that the government has failed to curb foreign interference regarding Critical Spectator
Why is this done and dusted issue being dredged up again? I can literally think of 101 other problems they should be worried about. Trains breaking down, grads cannot find jobs, hawkers struggling with rent, kids being bullied at school. He says he is worried about American style racial and religious division but yet here he is taking a leaf from their playbook of using these sort of issues to distract from the problems the common folk face in the real world. Honestly sick and tired of being gaslit and talked to like we are a bunch of 5 year olds
SG version of culture wars. Distract and divide.
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