Singapore PM and religious leader exchange letters on headscarf issue, emphasise need to move with care


The Government is considering allowing nurses to wear the tudung at work.- ST

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): The Muslim community here welcomes the likely change in stance on nurses wearing the tudung at work, Singapore's Mufti, the highest Islamic authority, has said.

In a letter to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Mufti Nazirudin Mohd Nasir said the Muslim community knows this is a complex decision with difficult and competing considerations, and expressed his hope that Muslim nurses will find comfort in this news.

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