Guess which race rioted: Maria Hertogh riots

sochi2014 said:

So long time ago, all looked so hazy to me.

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scroobal said:

Despite the event taking place in a distant memory there is a common link that tie event until today. That link is interestingly Indian.

The riots was incited by and flamed by Indian Muslims. Their leader was Karim Ghani an Indian Muslim not a malay and not even a drop of Malay blood.

The leader of Singapore JI that led to the detention of 31 others is Ibrahim Maidin an Indian Muslim, not a Malay

The latest ISA detention case announced in the press in recent weeks are of 2 Indian Muslims, not Malays. One was deported.

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GoldenDragon said:

ISD's Heritage Centre may need to update itself.

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scroobal said:

This was deliberately done as the community is small but politically connected. They are in CCCs.

One of the those charged in murder and convicted is the grandfather of the present owner of Jubliee Restaurant. The riots first erupted in Arab Street and not at Geylang.

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scroobal said:

This was deliberately done as the community is small but politically connected. They are in CCCs.

One of the those charged in murder and convicted is the grandfather of the present owner of Jubliee Restaurant. The riots first erupted in Arab Street and not at Geylang.

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scroobal said:

Despite the event taking place in a distant memory there is a common link that tie event until today. That link is interestingly Indian.

The riots was incited by and flamed by Indian Muslims. Their leader was Karim Ghani an Indian Muslim not a malay and not even a drop of Malay blood.

The leader of Singapore JI that led to the detention of 31 others is Ibrahim Maidin an Indian Muslim, not a Malay

The latest ISA detention case announced in the press in recent weeks are of 2 Indian Muslims, not Malays. One was deported.

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Jah_rastafar_I said:

I see so it is indians and not malays. Many ppl in singapore when they see a local that is muslim will automatically assume malay for obvious reasons because even though there is a sizable number of indian muslims around most indians would be hindu i assume and also christian. It also does not help the fact that many indian muslims get absorbed into the malay populace and somehow are just assumed to be malay. Taufik is one such example. He doesn't look indian or rather he has the stereotypical look of a malay but his father is indian and mum a malay so technically he is considered indian yet ignorant ppl would call him a malay. It's the same thing with former pm of mudland madhatter who is also technically an indian but probably considered malay. On the issue of the purity of malays in singapore i heard from a malay person that the minority of malays are actually of pure malay stock. The majority of them are actually mixed with other races mostly the local races especially with indians due to indian muslims and chinese and europeans mostly spanish i think. Heard one malay girl tell me her grandfather was a baba chinese and her face looked totally malay to me. The one thing that unites all of them is that they all subscribe to one religion islam and that they learn malay language in school and take up malay/islamic culture. Somehow in singapore malay culture is synomous with islamic practices. At the end of the day they aren't really malay and if you see pure malay people they kind of look chinese but perhaps with a darker skin tone. Many pure malay girls have fair skin and look chinese. If you see javanese girls you would think they came from east asia because a lot of them have the east asian/chinese type of look.

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Jah_rastafar_I said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Hertogh_riots


The Maria Hertogh riots began on 11 December 1950 in Singapore after a court decided that a child who had been raised by Muslims should be returned to her Catholic biological parents. A protest by outraged Muslims escalated into a riot when images were published showing 13-year-old Maria Hertogh (or Bertha Hertogh) kneeling before a statue of the Virgin Mary. Riots in Singapore lasted until noon on 13 December 1950. Eighteen people were killed and 173 injured. Many properties were also damaged.
Hertogh (also known as Nadrah) had been in the care of Aminah binte Mohamed before being returned to her Dutch Catholic biological parents.

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The_Hypocrite said:

What about Dr M? He is a paki right?

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The_Hypocrite said:

What about Dr M? He is a paki right?

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yellowarse said:

Father Malabari Muslim, mother Malay. The Malabaris are from Kerala, and speak Malayalam, not Tamil. Malayalam speakers include Devan Nair, the Syrian Christians, and probably half the lawyers in Singapore.

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Jah_rastafar_I said:

why would syrian speak malayalam? I used to know one indian and he referred to himself as malayee which is what they are also known as.

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yellowarse said:

Yes, the Keralans are also known as Malayalees. The Syrian Christians are Malayalee Christians belonging to the orthodox Syrian Christian church founded by St Thomas. They are not ​Syrians by race.

The Saint Thomas Christians, also called Syrian Christians or Nasrani, are an ancient community of Christians from Kerala, India who trace their origins to the evangelistic activity of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century. The community was historically united in leadership and liturgy, but since the 17th century have been split into several different church denominations and traditions.

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