Lee Kuan Yew warns on Dangers of Christianity and Islam

but after random I'm goes in what from ads in social sciences year three mr. Chairman I have a question for the prime minister thus the Prime Minister for see a decline in religious tolerance in the near future in Singapore I do not foresee I've already seen I start off with nineteen nineteen fifty forty five I was too young too busy with my old career when I came back and started practice in nineteen fifty religion was not an issue but then you see Islam had not gone through a resurgent phase India had got independence and a

secular generation of leaders were in charge Nehru in salon you had a very westernized elite that took over Buddhists nominally but very accommodating of other religions and that was the mood throughout the world and Singapore and Malaysia was part of that milieu the climate has turned harsher if you read Matt Tully on his book on India is the BBC correspondent in India he points to mrs. Indira Gandhi as the turning as the person who made India more Hindu focus according to him she was faced with a different situation and she decided to rally the north

which was Hindu by appealing to the Hindu nuts meanwhile of course Islam had gone through a resurgent phase but now it has a political tinge to it it's a right about power about the way the Hindus were governing India at the expense of what Muslims claim to be their rights I did not expect this to affect Singapore but it has a resurgent Islam is a fact of life a resurgent Christian group going up proselytizing evangelizing was totally unexpected we had always taken a free and liberal attitude and we assume that people will be sensible and

live and that live but you have this evangelist man called c-word Nixie with some Redemption Church what does he call himself see what this is go out and convert the Muslims you are entitled to do so by the Constitution well that's not very helpful is it has reached a point where finally the Buddhists came to see me and says would I open that conference because they also feel good and you know what's happening I thought we were going to live and let live it this is what is going to happen I'm going to assert my

rights so I accepted who gave me beads and so on well I accepted it because nominally I'm a Buddhist yeah that is the secret of Tolerance that you have a generation in charge like me by and large secular in our approach definitely in how to govern a country and only to ready to concede the spiritual to personal beliefs to whichever religion or religious group can convince you provided the two are kept separate that the religion contests your right to believe in certain values but not to the extent that you push a government into implementing those

values at the expense of other groups Muslims tell me that's not possible Islam is a total all-embracing philosophy the charismatic Christians tell me the same and if this goes on we're going to have unpleasantness friction there already is clashes are coming and my simple position is let's stop it before it's too late it's all silly however hard the Christians can try they are not going to make Singapore Christian society it's just not possible they are tried in China it failed there's something about ancient civilizations both India and China the Christians did not convert they converted

segments you may say superstition that Quan Yin or Papa come are all superstitions you may say Ganesh with his blue face and multi arms is again superstition but it's given succor comfort relief to successive generations for thousands of years who are you to say that your Bible is not superstition they have converted whole island communities like Fiji all the native Phrygians have become Christians but not the Indians in feedly so I I tell this Christian groups let's have a sense of proportion let's live and that you're not going to change the world maybe you change

a few individuals for a very brief period of time maybe a few years it gets excited he's seen the light but he's gone he's got to live and you look at the Europeans they were the earliest Christian nations they're not excited that churches are being the consecrated and becoming bingo halls so why do we need to be excited but we are going through that phase and I think sensible sensitive but firm government will write dispatch soft government trying to accommodate everybody will lead to big mischief my name is Lau Ealing and I'm a first year