Corruption

On the 17th of Oct, the Straits Times published two articles in pg 2 of the Home section, touching on recent corruption cases.

One was about the PCG intelligence officer who gave information which aided smugglers to, well, smuggle cigarettes into Singapore. The second was about a Cisco officer who had helped a resident of a girls' home escape, even joining her for a cigarette break while doing so. Both have subsequently been sentenced. Coincidentally, both officers bore Muslim sounding names.

Adopting the approach of each ethnic community attempting to solve its own problems, I had hoped that the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore would touch on the issue during the weekly Friday sermon that week:

Perhaps sending home the message to the community that corruption is not a virtue which is tolerated by the Islamic religion, and this was indeed a component of the Singapore Muslim Identity which they have so propagated.

Unfortunately, they did not. I guess 17th Oct would have been a sad day for anyone with Muslim sounding names to read those articles. However, the sermon did touch on good parenting tips, so well, we can't have a sermon trying to solve all problems all the time, do we? Perhaps, we'll hear about it on another day...

Perhaps, too, maybe each ethnic community does not have the means to solve its own problems all the time...

hmmm...

Cheers!