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So, the PAP has finally relented and allowed nurses to don the tudung at work. The enlightened decision comes 20 years late but, as they say, better late than never.
20 years because in 2002, I had spoken about the matter at the Speaker’s Corner urging the government to embrace the right for Muslim women to wear the headscarf as part of their uniform. I was prosecuted and fined $3,000.
PM Lee Hsien Loong’s rationale is that wearing such gear will disrupt the image of unity in the public sector. What he fails to understand is that values like unity and loyalty are cultivated from within each person and how citizens perceive the state is treating them, not what one wears in public.
More at https://tinyurI.com/ea35v752
20 years because in 2002, I had spoken about the matter at the Speaker’s Corner urging the government to embrace the right for Muslim women to wear the headscarf as part of their uniform. I was prosecuted and fined $3,000.
PM Lee Hsien Loong’s rationale is that wearing such gear will disrupt the image of unity in the public sector. What he fails to understand is that values like unity and loyalty are cultivated from within each person and how citizens perceive the state is treating them, not what one wears in public.
More at https://tinyurI.com/ea35v752