Shanmugam not filing police report over Facebook post

• QX179R

  30 Aug 15, 18:01

  Shanmugam not filing police report over 'inaccurate, seditious' Facebook post

  SINGAPORE: Law Minister K Shanmugam said on Saturday (Aug 29) he has decided not to file a police report against independent scholar and social activist Sangeetha Thanapal.

   

  This followed his talk earlier this week at a Singapore Press Club forum, where he spoke on the issue of integration in the Malaysian education system. 

   

  Mr Shanmugam said he reached out to Ms Sangeetha on Facebook at 11pm on Friday and met her on Saturday, when she apologised for what she wrote. Ms Sangeetha had also apologised in a Facebook comment. 

   

  Mr Shanmugam, who is also the Foreign Affairs Minister, said he decided not to file a police report on grounds that Ms Sangeetha did not have the intention to cause ill-will between races in Singapore.

   

  Ms Sangeetha had written in a Facebook post addressed to Mr Shanmugam: "Who are you, an Indian, to be deciding what is that acceptable enough way to be Malay-Muslim?" She also suggested that Mr Shanmugam had "no problems with Chinese people becoming 'more Chinese'."

   

  The post was shared more than 2,400 times before it was hidden from public view after 9pm.

   

  "She unfortunately twisted what I had said and suggested that I was an 'Islamophobic bigot who thinks Malay-Muslims are a threat'," Mr Shanmugam wrote in a Facebook post on Friday evening. "What Ms Thanapal wrote is inaccurate and seditious, and attributes to me sentiments that I do not hold and have never held," he stated.

   

  - CNA/dl

  
  
• ditzy

  30 Aug 15, 18:43

  Election time special.

   

• Ee Hoe Hean Club

  30 Aug 15, 21:49

  I support Malays being malays, chinese being chinese, indians being indians, peranakans being peranakans.

  Don't go and destroy and suppress other people language and culture and turn them into bananas with no roots, this bloody PAP.

  Come and destroy my culture and want me to support you? You wait long lah!

   

  All along the one playing the race card, setting one race against another is this bastard PAP.

• SJS6638

  31 Aug 15, 10:13

  Shanmugan not filing police report......

  so what ?     

• charlize

  31 Aug 15, 22:47

  what is this story?

• lce

  1 Sep 15, 00:58

  indian ghost story