On social activist Nizam Ismail's personal life being the fodder for online chatter and media scrutiny after his resignation from the Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP), SMU Assistant Professor of Law and NMP Eugene Tan said that he hopes this will end. "I certainly hope this will not be par for the course. We ought to separate the private and the political when the former is not relevant to the latter," he said. "Here it is not clear that Nizam has put himself as a political protagonist, even though in Singapore, there is the expectation that people in public lives should expect their private lives to be put under scrutiny."