Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam speaking at the IPS-MHA Forum on Non-Violent Ethnic Hostilities on Jul 1, 2024. in parliament signals that employment discrimination along ethnic or religious lines is unacceptable, said Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam on Monday .
He emphasised that Singapore has a tough set of laws against the incitement of racial and religious hatred, including a strict approach towards hate speech. “If people believe that they are being kept out of the system because of their skin colour or their religion, eventually you will have trouble,” he saidHe said the Singapore government has intervened"heavily" to ensure social cohesion – in ways which"would be unacceptable in many other countries with a more laissez-faire approach".
Mr Shanmugam cited the example of Myanmar, where tensions from ethnic and religious differences have caused the Rohingya crisis. “Myanmar continues to struggle with governing its multi-ethnic society. There is an ongoing civil war within the military junta and the anti-junta resistance, which includes several ethnic armed groups.”
Mr Shanmugam said that external events may pose a challenge to Singapore’s approach to the issue of racial and religious relations at home., while “the facts are clear” that the invader is Russia and the victim is Ukraine, there remain people around the world and in Singapore who think otherwise.
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