Not much info is given by TS. However, during my NS unit time,
there was a Malay Muslim storemen who had a letter from Muis to
allow him to keep his beard during NS. He was given the green light
by MINDEF and still being allowed to keep it for reservist. Real
nice guy, never heard him curse or swear at all in 1..5 yrs in the
unit.From what i gathered, the Malay lad was a religious scholar
and is now a Islamic religious teacher.
Maybe TS can advise the chap to go the same route using a Hindu
equivalent of MUIS?
exactly ! .....
if you ask nicely, don't rock the boat, you'll get what you want
... up to a point ....
like I said ..... yet again .... we are all chaps who have
served NS before ... we know that those career officers would more
often than not, not rock the boat and thus jeopardize his own ass
and career ......and everyone knows issues of race and religion is
a sensitive subject in Singapore .... you can imagine any SAF
officer who would dare dick around religious and medical issues
unless he's sure what he's doing is the right thing ? ....
for them to play hardball with this chap ... the powers-that-be
must have wasted kilowatts of electricity sending emails and memos
and cc'ing it around, and destroyed entire forests printing
everything out ...and knocked a lot of heads together discussing
how to respond, especially after MPs and Ministers were hauled
in.
somewhere along the line, they have put their collective asses
together and decided to say NO to this chap ..... even after taking
into account that this man is a potential shit stirrer, cos he's
already gone to MPs and Ministers before ......
you think they would just say no out of bloody-mindedness ? ....
and risk their asses and careers and crabs ? .... of course not
.... that's why I do not buy the TS' story .... there are things
that he's not telling us, only protraying himself as the victim
...
and of course, I have encountered such characters during my
service before too, shit stirrers who just die die have to keng
special privileges for himself, stay outs, no duties, inviolate
weekends, early bookouts etc .... in the end, it's the other men of
the unit that has to shoulder the extra responsibilities ..... my
sympathies go to his unit mates, not to that shit stirrer ....
