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Dec 17, 2009
Embrace Muslim immigrants
<!-- by line --> By Zakir Hussain , POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
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MOSQUES have been urged to welcome new Muslim immigrants here, the same way they have opened their doors to non-Muslims in recent years. The call was made on Thursday by the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis) president Alami Musa, who urged Muslim community leaders to adopt the inclusive approach they took in working with others groups in Singapore to bring people of various faiths together. His call was made at a ceremony attended by about 400 of these leaders to mark the Muslim New Year 1431. It comes amid a swell in the pool of Muslim newcomers, who form an estimated one-fifth of the 700,000 Muslims in Singapore. They have practices and views that differ from the local community. But this diversity is here to stay, Mr Alami said in his speech in Malay at the Darussalam Mosque in Clementi. 'Hence, we have encouraged local Muslims to contemplate this matter and avoid taking a fanatical, dogmatic or intolerant attitude towards differences within the Muslim community,' he added.
Read the full report in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
Home > Breaking News > Singapore > Story
Dec 17, 2009
Embrace Muslim immigrants
<!-- by line --> By Zakir Hussain , POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
<!-- end by line -->
MOSQUES have been urged to welcome new Muslim immigrants here, the same way they have opened their doors to non-Muslims in recent years. The call was made on Thursday by the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis) president Alami Musa, who urged Muslim community leaders to adopt the inclusive approach they took in working with others groups in Singapore to bring people of various faiths together. His call was made at a ceremony attended by about 400 of these leaders to mark the Muslim New Year 1431. It comes amid a swell in the pool of Muslim newcomers, who form an estimated one-fifth of the 700,000 Muslims in Singapore. They have practices and views that differ from the local community. But this diversity is here to stay, Mr Alami said in his speech in Malay at the Darussalam Mosque in Clementi. 'Hence, we have encouraged local Muslims to contemplate this matter and avoid taking a fanatical, dogmatic or intolerant attitude towards differences within the Muslim community,' he added.
Read the full report in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.