STRAITS TIMES

Battling terrorism

Concerns raised about terrorism’s threat to Singapore reiterate the case for making multiracialism a bulwark against the divisiveness produced by terror. The objective of terror is not to kill or maim alone but to drive such a deep wedge into society that it is doomed to self-destruct. Terrorism can destroy the ability of people to think of themselves as a single, integral. The result would be a fractured society. The Singapore government’s insistence on foreigners keeping out of its politics is important particularly in the matter of religion.