If the leader can make a speech like below, those p*gs wouldnt dare to be racist! *thanx nobrainner for highlighting this* i'm NOT inciting that we should go on strike but are we supposed to juz sit and look at our fellow muslims be treated unfairly? i have non-muslims frens as well...and i respected them. but to think this is a democratic country and "regardless of race, religion, and language", i can't believe even the educated ones can do as such? *bah!*

//....''Over these 30 years, I have seen our own Muslims and our neighbours change. They have become more and more orthodox, behaving like the Arabs. But they are not Arabs. It's peer pressure.

''Now I see some of them, in Indonesia and Malaysia, behaving like Arabs.''

He added: ''Our Malays tell us they have to observe all Muslim dietary habits, dress codes, prayer times and other injunctions. Some little girls going to school now insist that they wear headscarves. We said that for 100 years they never wore headscarves. That's not part of the uniform.''

The Islamic world can make its peace with modernity only after Islamic theocracies like Iran fail, he predicted.

''All the states that go that way will fail. If you spend all your days studying the Quran, how do you catch up with the science, technology, management and knowledge that makes for the modern world?

''We have to hope that secular Muslim countries like Turkey succeed. The Turks have made more progress than other Muslim countries, although they have not yet taken off into steady growth.'' // *extracted from "The terrorists won't win, says SM Lee" straits times interactive 29th Sept 2002*

btw...mr SM, i'm wondering how come in your 30 years, you never knew that islam encourages Muslims to seek knowledge. Even the Quran says so.