Singapore said Tuesday night that city officials refused to enter Indonesia’s Islamic cleric, saying what they said about “Abdul Somad Batubara’s” extremist and racist “teachings. Traveling to Singapore on Monday had more followers online in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country.”Somad is known for preaching extremist, racist, unacceptable doctrines in Singapore’s multiracial and multi-religious society,” Singapore Home Affairs (MHA) said in a statement. Somad, along with six of his colleagues, was denied entry after consulting with border officials at the Singapore port, “MHA said.
“He also spoke disparaging remarks about members of other religious communities, such as Christians, describing the Christian cross as the abode of the unbelieving ‘jinn (spirit / demon).” ‘kafirs’ (unbelievers), “he said. Somad did not immediately respond to a request for comment and the Indonesian Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the incident.
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In a video uploaded to his YouTube channel, Somad said immigration officials did not give him an explanation for preventing him from entering Singapore. On Somad’s Instagram page, which has 6.5 million followers, the pastor posted a photo of himself before leaving Singapore in an upstairs room which he likened to a “prison”. council, criticized the move to block Somad and opposed Singapore’s claim that it was extremist, according to a CNN Indonesia report.
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