THE Republic said border officials in the city-state had denied entry to an Indonesian cleric, citing what it said were Abdul Somad Batubara’s “extremist and segregationist teachings”.
The cleric, who had travelled by ferry from the Indonesian port of Batam to Singapore on Monday has a large online following in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country.
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