Tan Boon Lee, 61, faces one count of making racist remarks and two counts of making insensitive comments about religion, including once during a lecture at the polytechnic.On Tuesday, Tan's lawyer Johannes Hadi told the court that his client was not ready to decide whether or not to plead guilty and asked for a three-week adjournment.
Tan is heard on video saying: “I have nothing against Indians, but I think it is racist for an Indian to marry a Chinese girl.” After the video of the confrontation surfaced on social media, a former Ngee Ann Polytechnic student,, 22, took to Instagram to claim that she was on the receiving end of Islamophobic comments.
He also allegedly told his students that they “need to be smart enough to identify if the religion we follow is fake or not” and drew a comparison between how Allah treated his people with how “animals will treat their children”. "One cannot distinguish between these spirit. And people under the influence of drugs or epilepsy have the exact same experience. 'Chasing the dragon' is the term, drug addicts used or in the presence of god is what a Christian would describe it."