Mr Zulfikar had called on Muslims to “reject the constitutional, secular, democratic state in favour of an Islamic state governed by Syariah law” and apply violence to achieve this goal if necessary, said the statement.
For the post in question, Mr Zulfikar accused several of Singapore's Malay-Muslim ex-Members of Parliament (MPs) of failing to represent the interest of the Muslim community, and said that the local Muslim community did not need another Malay MP who does not represent their views.
MHA and ELD said: “These posts have been targeted at Singaporeans. They interfere with our domestic politics, which are reserved for our citizens. They also urge Singaporeans to vote on racial and religious lines, and have led to more social media postings of a similar nature."
Over the past few days, several posts on Facebook, Reddit, Instagram and Threads have made the rounds online, discussing the GE while mixing religion and politics.
One Facebook post by Islamic religious teacher Noor Deros, for example, made a list of demands for political parties in Singapore. He claimed that the Workers' Party (WP) was the only one that responded to him.
Subsequently, he said in another post that if the WP "does not respond to the widespread demands of the Muslim community to reject the normalisation of LGBTQ+ and address other major concerns, then I urge that we vote for the candidate, not the party".
In yet another post, he claimed that Minister-in-Charge of Muslim Affairs Masagos Zulkifli had failed to protect the rights and interests of the Malay-Muslim society.
There was also a Reddit thread started by netizen "queenkard" who shared a Facebook post, written by someone else, that called on Tampines GRC residents to support the WP candidate Faisal Manap to "fight for a strong Islamic community".
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/foreign-interference-mha-eld-ge2025-meta-imda-5089426
