Shia Islam in Singapore

[2] Records documenting Gujarati traders of the Dawoodi Bohra denomination date back to 1875, when the first immigrants arrived to set up businesses, mainly dealing in dried goods and spices.

[7] In the 1970s Rajabali Jumabhoy and his wife Fatima Premjee bought a shophouse in Lim Ah Woo Road where Muharram majaalis were addressed by Maulana Mazahir (an Urdu-language preacher from Lucknow, India).

The founding committee members were as follows: Although Shia–Sunni relations had long been cordial due to secular government legislations protecting religious freedom and promoting inter-religious cooperation in a pluralistic society, the tensions between the two sects overseas was brought to the attention of the public due to the protracted sectarian violence and civil war in Syria and ISIS utilising the internet to recruit fighters from Southeast Asia.

Anti-Shia sentiment is a source of concern with the rise in arrests and detentions of self-radicalised Sunni Muslims intending to travel to Syria to join the "holy war" against the Shi'ites.

[9][10][11][12] Professor Syed Farid al-Attas noted that the current internet-savvy generation were still able to access anti-Shia pro-ISIS materials from radicalised groups based in Malaysia and Indonesia and prejudices regarding Shi'ites being "heretics" have yet to be adequately addressed by MUIS.