Anyone one who says that the public outcry over Amos Yee had anything to do with religious insensitivity has clearly not been listening in on the news the past week.
The 17 year-old who posted “an insulting video clip online containing remarks about Mr Lee (Kuan Yew) which was intended to be heard and seen by persons likely to be distressed by the same”, was slapped with no less than 20 police reports from presumably these same “distressed” fellow citizens.
Undeniably, Yee touched on Christianity – in ways that are stunningly and obviously inaccurate, I might add. Yet as a Catholic, I was hardly offended, and I am definitely not the only one. A petition has been started calling on people to “release Amos Yee from your anger”, with the writer indicating that “his opinions about our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ neither threaten our faith nor diminish our love for Him”. At time of writing, the petition has more than 2,000 signatories.
The main jibe of the public anger against him is evidently the disparaging remarks about the recently deceased former PM Lee, and in this aspect, Yee has evidently ventured into territory that even he might not have been prepared for.
For the past week, we have seen the development of an online mob with a single dedicated purpose: Defending the good name of Mr Lee Kuan Yew. Full story...
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The 17 year-old who posted “an insulting video clip online containing remarks about Mr Lee (Kuan Yew) which was intended to be heard and seen by persons likely to be distressed by the same”, was slapped with no less than 20 police reports from presumably these same “distressed” fellow citizens.
Undeniably, Yee touched on Christianity – in ways that are stunningly and obviously inaccurate, I might add. Yet as a Catholic, I was hardly offended, and I am definitely not the only one. A petition has been started calling on people to “release Amos Yee from your anger”, with the writer indicating that “his opinions about our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ neither threaten our faith nor diminish our love for Him”. At time of writing, the petition has more than 2,000 signatories.
The main jibe of the public anger against him is evidently the disparaging remarks about the recently deceased former PM Lee, and in this aspect, Yee has evidently ventured into territory that even he might not have been prepared for.
For the past week, we have seen the development of an online mob with a single dedicated purpose: Defending the good name of Mr Lee Kuan Yew. Full story...
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