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Singapore

Laten we eens te rade gaan bij iemand met enige kennis van zaken over dat land.

Lee Kuan Yew. Vader der natie. 31 jaar lang eerste minister. Heeft Singapore met harde hand van een derdewereldland in één van de welvarendste landen ter wereld omgevormd. Overtuigd multiculturalist.

Lee Kuan Yew zei in 2011 het volgende:

“I have to speak candidly to be of value, but I do not wish to offend the Muslim community.

“I think we were progressing very nicely until the surge of Islam came, and if you asked me for my observations, the other communities have easier integration - friends, intermarriages and so on, Indians with Chinese, Chinese with Indians - than Muslims. That’s the result of the surge from the Arab states.”

He added: “I would say today, we can integrate all religions and races except Islam.”

He also said: “I think the Muslims socially do not cause any trouble, but they are distinct and separate.”

Mr lee then went on to speak of how his own generation of politicians who worked with him had integrated well, including sitting down and eating together. He said: “But now, you go to schools with Malay and Chinese, there’s a halal and non-halal segment and so too, the universities. And they tend to sit separately so as not to be contaminated. All that becomes a social divide.”

He added that the result was a “veil” across peoples. Asked what Muslims in Singapore needed to do to integrate, he replied: “Be less strict on Islamic observances and say ‘Okay, I’ll eat with you.’”

Dus zelfs een autoritair figuur als Lee die in 3 decennia tijd een economisch en demografisch mirakel heeft verwezenlijkt is er niet in geslaagd om de 15% moslims te integreren in de samenleving van zijn land.