Former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has rejected a WikiLeaks cable claiming that he “characterised Islam as a ‘venomous religion’” during a meeting with then United States Senator Hillary Clinton in July 2005.
“This is false. I looked up MFA’s (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) filenote of the meeting. Nowhere does it record me describing Islam as “venomous”, nor did I say anything which could have given that impression,” said Lee, who stepped down from government this year after the May General Election.
Former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has rejected a WikiLeaks cable claiming that he “characterised Islam as a ‘venomous religion’” during a meeting with then United States Senator Hillary Clinton in July 2005.
ReplyDelete“This is false. I looked up MFA’s (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) filenote of the meeting. Nowhere does it record me describing Islam as “venomous”, nor did I say anything which could have given that impression,” said Lee, who stepped down from government this year after the May General Election.