SINGAPORE: There is “likely to be a change” in the Government’s stance on nurses donning the tudung, Minister for Home Affairs K Shanmugam said on Tuesday , adding that this was an issue he discussed with Muslim religious leaders six months ago in a closed-door dialogue.
“Our President wears tudung. Parliament MPs wear tudung. I also said if you only look at that one point, nurses wearing a tudung, it would not be an issue. The rules would have been changed long ago.In private, they had to weigh the “different considerations against each other, and reach a judgment”, Mr Shanmugam said.“We spoke frankly, behind closed doors. In private I was able to share with you candidly our position, and the sensitivities and difficulties we worry about,” he said.
Mr Masagos had said in Parliament on Mar 8: “We emphathise with the views of those who want to don the tudung as part of their uniform in nursing.” Mr Masagos was responding to a suggestion by MP Faisal Manap to allow Muslim nurses to wear the tudung as part of their uniform.
Ppl should just get on with life and not bicker over trivial matters that don’t pose any life endangerment. When you are in public, it’s public’s norm. When you are at home, it’s ur own norm. Not hard to understand.
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