“Waves of secularism”: President warns of undue foreign influence
05 Nov 2012, 7:09 PM
Foreign parties are attempting to exert undue influence over the Maldives, secularise the country and exercise power over its people, President Dr Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik has warned.
Dr Waheed made the remarks in his address to the nation (Dhivehi) at a ceremony on Friday night, following the unveiling of a memorial monument for ‘Victory Day’ – when an attempted coup on November 3, 1988 was thwarted by Indian military intervention.
The former vice president said that “foreign parties are attempting to exert influence over us in different ways, under different names and capacities, to exercise power over us.”
These foreign parties were “saying that we must turn to their ideologies and sending waves of secularism [or secular ideologies] to the country,” the President claimed.
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