"The rising threat of Islamic-oriented global and regional terrorism has posed the greatest challenge to Singapore's foreign policy since the end of the Cold War" Do you agree?

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"The rising threat of Islamic-oriented global and regional terrorism has posed the greatest challenge to Singapore's foreign policy since the end of the Cold War" Do you agree?

It is exhaustive to reiterate the vulnerable religious circumstances of Singapore's immediate external environment. Singapore has been called a 'red dot', a 'Third China', with the addition of many other innuendos. The end of the Cold War heralded the elimination of the threat of communism globally, giving rise to other threats once perceived as meagre. Radical interpretations of Islam resulting in religious-oriented terrorism poses a gargantuan challenge to Singapore's conduct of foreign policy. In this paper I will examine how terrorism poses a threat to Singapore's foreign policy in addition to two other threats; disease and religious fundamentalism.

Radical interpretations of Islam are not a new development. In the 1870s, religious Muslims who returned from the haj inspired by the austere Wahabbi fundamentalism they encountered in Mecca embarked on the Padri wars in West Sumatra.

At the beginning of the 20th century, pamphleteers and editors in Singapore, then the hub of the regional Malay-language media, spread competing Islamic doctrines around the region. They set the stage for a