did you know that : today, 12th December, exactly 49 years ago there was a riot in Singapore?

yes, the riot is to show that the Muslims can't stand the injustice of the the English Court. they were outraged by the court decision, which is Natrah is to be put under her biological Dutch Catholic parents custody, without acknowledging that Natrah now is Mansor Adabi's wife and she willingly accepted Islam as her faith.

My sincere and honest praise goes to : Karim Ghani, Dr Burhanuddin Helmy, Taha Kalu and all warriors. They've done a real good job which is to spread and instill 'semangat cintakan Islam & tanah air' amongst Malayan & Singaporean through words. ow man, i adore them!

it's so true that words are mightier than the swords.

i'd like to share the strategy that Karim Ghani has ployed :

During the court proceeding, they were two types of police sent to safeguard the place. The Malays and the Gurkhas police. Karim Ghani prepared a letter (or newspaper) for the Malay police urging them to NOT to interfere nor disperse the crowd, by playing with Malay sentiment in his letter.

And so as you have guessed, the crowd rushed to the court, and attack any European they saw. The Malay police did nothing but giving way to the rioters. as situation became wild, the Gurkha's police is then called to join in the Malays contingent. the riots continued for another day before the situation can be controlled.

It was reported 18 people was killed and 180 was hurt during the riots. The rioters went to Masjid Sultan located in Arab Street to seek for a hiding place. Mansor Adabi was instructed to stay in the mosque for two days for his safety.