Be afraid, be very afraid
Govt won't interfere in AWARE saga
By S Ramesh/Cheryl Lim, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 26 April 2009 1900 hrs
SINGAPORE: The government has no intention of intervening in the saga involving AWARE (Association of Women for Action and Research).
Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, Vivian Balakrishnan, said this on the sidelines of his visit to Nee Soon South on Sunday.
The problems facing AWARE are not a national one, so it is best for the organisation to settle them democratically and according to its constitution. [...]
Not a national one? On the contrary, I believe that the Singapore Government is closely watching how the events in AWARE pan out-and they should be.
Because the biggest threat to a PAP government is the Religious Rightwing.
Imagine: all it takes is for a few of these mega-churches to band together and exhort their flock in God's name to support a certain party or certain candidate, to "save Singapore" and to arrest the slide away from traditional, conservative, Christian values. What do you think is going to happen?
So yes, as Vivian says, "it is important for organisations to keep religion above the fray of petty politics". Let's hope earnestly for your sake and mine, they keep religion above the fray of national politics as well.
§ Quod vide:
XenoboySG: A Peculiar IronyIt is a peculiar irony that perhaps the Singapore Government's greatest enemy is not the opposition parties, not our weekend activists, not even our vaunted new media but an age-old ideology birthed when a man split the seas into two and another man got crucified on a cross.
It is Singapore's peculiar irony that we have in potentiality a movement that can topple the Government with one Word as they toppled AWARE with one Word.
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By S Ramesh/Cheryl Lim, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 26 April 2009 1900 hrs
SINGAPORE: The government has no intention of intervening in the saga involving AWARE (Association of Women for Action and Research).
Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, Vivian Balakrishnan, said this on the sidelines of his visit to Nee Soon South on Sunday.
The problems facing AWARE are not a national one, so it is best for the organisation to settle them democratically and according to its constitution. [...]
Not a national one? On the contrary, I believe that the Singapore Government is closely watching how the events in AWARE pan out-and they should be.
Because the biggest threat to a PAP government is the Religious Rightwing.
Imagine: all it takes is for a few of these mega-churches to band together and exhort their flock in God's name to support a certain party or certain candidate, to "save Singapore" and to arrest the slide away from traditional, conservative, Christian values. What do you think is going to happen?
So yes, as Vivian says, "it is important for organisations to keep religion above the fray of petty politics". Let's hope earnestly for your sake and mine, they keep religion above the fray of national politics as well.
§ Quod vide:
XenoboySG: A Peculiar IronyIt is a peculiar irony that perhaps the Singapore Government's greatest enemy is not the opposition parties, not our weekend activists, not even our vaunted new media but an age-old ideology birthed when a man split the seas into two and another man got crucified on a cross.
It is Singapore's peculiar irony that we have in potentiality a movement that can topple the Government with one Word as they toppled AWARE with one Word.
§ Technorati tags:
news bites;
religion;
social commentary