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admin on 05 22, 2009
Singapore Muslims Fight Extremism
IslamOnline.net & News Agencies
“Singapore is the one place in the world I know where relations between the government and the Muslim community are better after 9/11,” Musa. (Google)
CAIRO — Shielding their country against the threat of terrorism and helping their coreligionists be immune against radical ideologies, a group of Singapore Muslim scholars are running an ambitious program to fight extremism.
“We are not scared of [terrorists],” scholar Ustaz Ibrahim Kassim, a member of government-backed anti-extremism Religious Rehabilitation Group (RRG), told the Washington Post on Saturday, May 16.
“We know that history repeats itself, but these problems do not need to be passed on.”
The 40-member group, which was formed by the government after 9/11 terror attacks, is trying to rehabilitate or “deprogram” terror suspects.
Singaporean authorities arrested more than 30 people on terror charges in 2001 and 2002.
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