The main stumbling block of the decades old tudung issue were/ are our very own Malay-Muslim leaders, from the beginning till current day.
It’s never proven to be a great concern of the other communities or to be a hindrance for those who don it to do their jobs or even to be a justified, well- informed concern for non-muslim leaders.
Malay-Muslim MPs should collectively endorse rather than misrepresent its importance, respect rather than ignore their community’s concerns, be its supporter rather than its adversary, facilitate non-Muslim leaders to empathise rather than follow along and let the misguidance initiated and inflicted by earlier MMPs grow into an evergrowing cancer affecting the government for so long.
Dear Malay-Muslim MPs, please be accountable and correct this mistake. This is an issue close to your conscience so don’t expect your non-muslim colleagues to do it for you. They could have been waiting impatiently for so long for you to do so.
Source: Sha’ban Yahya in Suara Melayu Singapura
