Question 2 part II : How religious issues could divide the people. In the 1940s, a Dutch couple was imprisoned by Japanese. So they placed their daughter, Maria Hertogh, under the care of a Malay lady called Aminah so Maria was raised as a Muslim. She was married to a Malay teacher at the age of 13.


Maria Hertogh riots was caused when Maria's parents that she be returned to them which followed by a court trial. This court trial had wide media coverage and provoked lots of unhappiness among the Muslim community as the court gave the custody of Maria back to the Hertoghs after much consideration.


The large crowd outside the court felt that the British legal system as it was unfair to the Muslims so this sparked off anger from the Muslims towards the Europeans and Eurasian communities which resulted in the outbreaks of the riots.


During this riot, 5 people are dead and 100 people were injured. This event had much media coverage in the English,Malay and Tamil newspapers. The court's decision to annul Maria's marriage and pictures of Maria in a Christian convent were published. These caused unhappiness in the Muslim community as they felt that the welfare for the Muslims were not looked into.


We shouldn't take what is not ours as we won't be happy and will feel guilty for the rest of our life, we will get rewarded for helping to take care of someone's child but not to own him or her forever. One should not be too greedy or he or she will suffer in hell or be punished by God.


That's because some people are very loyalty to their God and doing evil deeds will make them regret and they would want to repent before they suffer the consequences while some will believe in God after they suffer for committing sins.

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