No cause for paranoia

It was a procession steeped in tradition and engulfed in religious solemnity as thousands of pilgrims and devotees as well as non-Christians converged at Malacca St. Peter's Church to partake in a Good Friday candlelight procession.-File picture

HERE we go again. This newspaper has just been given an unprecedented, if not unusual, distinction of being branded a “Christian extremist linked daily” and purportedly connected to some denomination banned in Singapore by a blogger.

I can only think of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, which was officially banned in the island republic as far back as 1972 supposedly on the grounds that its members refused to perform national service, salute the flag or swear oaths of allegiance to the state.