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2005-12-12 Terror Networks

Singapore's Lee Kwan Yew on Radical Islam

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Posted by john 2005-12-12 08:38|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Opting out is not an option.

Mr. Yew is obviously NOT stuck on stupid.

Posted by Dreadnought 2005-12-12 11:45|| 2005-12-12 11:45|| Front Page Top

#2 TIME: Western analysts did not expect President Hu Jintao to pay so much attention to the Communist Party, or crack down on the mediaâor to see so much nationalist sentiment surface. The West has a certain unease and wariness about China's leaders.
LEE: They are communist by doctrine. I don't believe they are the same old communists as they used to be, but the thought processes, the dialectical, secretive way in which they form and frame their policies [still exist]. Their main preoccupations are stability, the continuation of their rule over China, and economic growth. Without a strong center they fear that they will never become competitive, they will never get rid of their state-owned enterprises, and they could have trouble in their inland provinces that are not doing well. A year before they took power, both Hu and Wen left me with the clear impression that they were going to redress this inequality, as best they could. To do that, they need a Party that responds to their orders, not have powerful barons in the provinces.

Posted by john 2005-12-12 12:14|| 2005-12-12 12:14|| Front Page Top

#3 The objective must be to reassure and persuade moderate Muslims, the rationalists and modernizers, which I believe the majority are, that they are not going to lose, that they have the weight, the resources of the world behind them. They must have the courage to go into the mosques and madrasahs and switch off the radicals.

Does anyone else read that as "Eliminate them"

Posted by Cheaderhead 2005-12-12 13:40|| 2005-12-12 13:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Yep. switch off in the Singapore context probably means... Behave or we'll cane you. Break the peace and we'll hang you).

Posted by john 2005-12-12 14:06|| 2005-12-12 14:06|| Front Page Top

#5 john: Yep. switch off in the Singapore context probably means... Behave or we'll cane you. Break the peace and we'll hang you).

The really weird thing is that the rigors of the law as practiced in Singapore were inherited from its time as a Crown Colony, prior to independence. Singapore's British masters have now become more civilized ~~effete~~, and consequently face a more pressing problem with terrorism than does Singapore. Singapore's Muslim population is 15% of the total and it is surrounded by Muslim colossi. Britain's Muslim population is 1% of the total and it is right next to the heart of Western Christendom. But yet it is Britain that got the subway bombings and not Singapore. The West's cult of the Noble Other ~~Savage~~ has gotten out of hand, and is getting in the way of both anti-terrorist operations and its long-term survival as a distinct civilization.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-12-12 14:30|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-12-12 14:30|| Front Page Top

#6 It's stranger than that ZF. Britain has a million or so Iraqi immigrants but who blew up stuff in the name of protesting the occupation of Iraq? A bunch of Pakistanis and a Jamacian convert.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2005-12-12 16:04|| 2005-12-12 16:04|| Front Page Top

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