Agama

Discrimination Against Muslimahs Wearing Tudung Is The Number 1 Factor Inhibiting Them From The Nursing Profession

AsSalaam’alaikum! There is a convoluted reasoning when it comes to the tudung. It is said that those who are calling for the end to the discrimination against tudung clad women are putting pressures upon Muslimah nurses such that these nurses…
Read more

When Will Ideals In Singapore Pledge Be Reality For Malay Singaporeans?

This is not a religious issue. It is about equality before the law. The desire to be treated equally before the law is imbedded in every human soul. It is a universal yearning. Even our Constitution refers to the inalienable…
Read more

Why Have GRCs If Minority MPs Can’t Speak Up On Minority Issues?

This week, when WP MP Muhammad Faisal spoke up against the ban on the wearing of tudung in certain occupations here, PAP Minister Masagos Zulkifli rebuked him for “subtly and frequently needling” the Malay community with this issue. Minister Masagos…
Read more

Singaporean Malays Display Unity, Rally Behind Najip Ali

It’s funny how an unfunny joke on show that Singaporeans don’t watch, but apparently watched by Malaysians, can create so much controversy. It’s an over-reaction and that Zed Zaidi definitely is one Melayu you cannot trust. He’s full of agendas….
Read more

Alfian Sa’at: If Muslim Women Want To Wear Tudung, Respect Their Choices

Are we not sick already of the way certain issues are debated in Parliament? The raising of the perennial ‘tudung issue’ has become some kind of weird tussle for legitimacy–as representative of minority rights– between WP MP Faisal Manap and…
Read more