Well to answer you questions the muslim population is at 14% the third most popular (after buddhism at 33 and christianity at 18 mind you).
As far as I know the reason why they get along so well is a) because you cant enter Singapore if youre poor (and not already employed there), regardles of religion or race. and b) because everyone is mostly tolerant, and if they dont like something they look the other way. Also a bit c) because there is high public order through a sophisticated police state with limited freedom of speech.
I think the thing to take away from them is that the reason there can be extremists anywhere in the world is not because of religion, but because of poverty and the resulting lack of education as well as general differences in classes of humans. Also the "mind your own business" mentality is incredibly helpful if you want a tolerant and peaceful society upon which the US was built upon as well (hence the inportance of the very first amendment).
For other countries that are much bigger than Singapore, that technically have room for more people, shutting them out is not an option, especially not in the case of refugees right now (at least according to the human rights agenda, which again also is the thing guaranteeing us freedom of speech), so we need to find ways of educating the people that are yet uneducated. This can start on a small level by eliminating illiteracy in the worse parts of first world nations, but ultimately has to happen all over the world, if peace is the goal.
Only applying one of the solutions wont work, because if you only take a) and shut all the people out that you dont like, you will eventually have too many people up in arms against you, since the shutting out thing will unite them against you.
If you only apply b) you will face similar problems but from the inside, with uneducated masses that threaten the order.
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CarlosShyamalan ago
Well to answer you questions the muslim population is at 14% the third most popular (after buddhism at 33 and christianity at 18 mind you).
As far as I know the reason why they get along so well is a) because you cant enter Singapore if youre poor (and not already employed there), regardles of religion or race. and b) because everyone is mostly tolerant, and if they dont like something they look the other way. Also a bit c) because there is high public order through a sophisticated police state with limited freedom of speech.
I think the thing to take away from them is that the reason there can be extremists anywhere in the world is not because of religion, but because of poverty and the resulting lack of education as well as general differences in classes of humans. Also the "mind your own business" mentality is incredibly helpful if you want a tolerant and peaceful society upon which the US was built upon as well (hence the inportance of the very first amendment).
For other countries that are much bigger than Singapore, that technically have room for more people, shutting them out is not an option, especially not in the case of refugees right now (at least according to the human rights agenda, which again also is the thing guaranteeing us freedom of speech), so we need to find ways of educating the people that are yet uneducated. This can start on a small level by eliminating illiteracy in the worse parts of first world nations, but ultimately has to happen all over the world, if peace is the goal.
Only applying one of the solutions wont work, because if you only take a) and shut all the people out that you dont like, you will eventually have too many people up in arms against you, since the shutting out thing will unite them against you.
If you only apply b) you will face similar problems but from the inside, with uneducated masses that threaten the order.