December 9, 2011
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Jakim is Just Paranoid: Banning of LKY's Book
by Shannon Teoh
Federal Islamic authorities have spoken haram a book in that Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew urged Muslims in Singapore to be "less despotic upon Islamic observances."
Lee Kuan Yew: Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going, a collection of interviews published in January, was enclosed in a list of fifteen books spoken haram by a Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Jakim).
Jakim's planning as well as investigate multiplication confirmed a preference was done when a cabinet upon a censorship of publications with Islamic elements met in October.
However, both a division's executive as well as Jakim executive ubiquitous Datuk Othman Mustapha have not responded to queries by The Malaysian Insider upon why a preference was done nine months after a book strike a shelves in Malaysia.
According to procedure, a list of books spoken haram is sent to a home method for serve action though it is unclear if a home method has followed suit as well as banned a books.
Othman's predecessor Datuk Wan Mohamad Sheikh Abdul Aziz had pronounced in February that Lee 
was unsuccessful in building a mindset of a Singaporean open because he was "still shabby by a landscape of a 1960s that were full of prejudice as well as presumptions opposite Muslims."
Lee, who served in Singapore's Cabinet as Prime Minister, se! nior min ister as well as minister coach for 52 years before timid in May, pronounced in a book that Muslims in Singapore were socially "distinct as well as separate" as well as should "be reduction despotic upon Islamic observances" to aid integration as well as a city-state's nation-building process.
It led to uproar from Malay as well as Muslims groups upon both sides of a Causeway with his old rival as well as former Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad accusing Lee of carrying no apply oneself for religion.
Lee later retracted his matter in Mar ahead of ubiquitous elections in a island that has a fifteen per cent Malay-Muslim population. His son Lee Hsien Loong led a statute People's Action Party to a misfortune ever opening in this year's Singapore ubiquitous election, gaining only 60 per cent of renouned support.
Lee, 88, admitted last month he has been suffering from a haughtiness seizure for a past two years that prevents him from walking steadily.
Other books in a haram list embody Sebongkah Batu Di Kuala Berang by Faisal Tehrani, Mengenal Diri: Ilmu Peninggalan Tok Kenali by Mohd Yusof Che Wook as well as The Teachings of a Quran by H. U. Weitbrecht Stanton.
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