As expected, the current Mufti, Dr Nazirudin Nasir was played. Again.
On 13th October, the Mufti sent a letter to the Chief Rabbi of Singapore, Morderchai Abergel, pouring his heart out in sadness about the violence in Palestine and Israel.
He was weepy.
He cried that there is no justification for violence against civilians and threw in “by Hamas or in any retaliatory response”.
Not once did he criticise Israel’s actions. He did not discuss how Israel’s continued oppression, dispossession, murder and dehumanization of Palestinians have led to the current events.
None of that for this Mufti. He cried. He talked about his fear for the human soul.
He looks like a scared child trying to seek approval.
Rabbi Abergel replied to the Mufti on 15th October.
The Rabbi confirmed that it is the Mufti that approached him asking for solidarity.
But unlike the scared, crying Mufti, Rabbi Abergel placed the blame squarely on Hamas.
He claimed that the “Jewish community in Singapore is still under the shock of the atrocities of the Hamas terrorists…”. He brought up the spectre of the Holocaust.
The Rabbi neglected to mention Israel’s continued atrocities on the Palestinians over the last 75 years.
The Mufti is once again, weak, weepy, scared.
The Rabbi is assertive, declarative, pointed.
We wonder why the Muslims are weak.
It is because those who take up leadership of the community are spineless, weepy, scared babies.
And these are the people the PAP want leading Muslim organisations.
My advise to the Rabbi: please do not associate your community with Israel.
You are Singaporeans. We will protect you as Singaporeans, as people of the book, as fellow humans.
But please do not associate yourself and your community with the monsters of the State of Israel.