It is not going to be one tudung at a time. The hijab presence would probably increase but imperceptibly or in the language of Physics which I am more at home with - adiabatically.
Some Muslims will see this as playing for time, infinite time. That would just effectively be a no answer. For me I wonder how much of the decision making is based on fear or insight and knowledge. The PM was so gung ho at exploding our population in a hurry. Weren't the unintended consequences from that policy not more severe? Perhaps privately he is less confident after that big mistake. Perhaps he can't push SMRT to do better because ultimately he was the one who caused the problem with his population policies but now the train operators have the nasty job of fixing it. Otherwise how do you explain why the government is so patient with SMRT? Could it also be that our ICA and police force are also under resourced ever since they cleverly over managed the civil service on new fangled financial principles and the strain of fighting terrorism threats? Sound finance is only sound if supported by sound insight or you will find that in due course you end up with penny wise and pound foolish. May be the MRT problems are the first birds returning to roost? What others might be returning for pay back? The government can choose to be coy but time is a great revealer of the truth. Just look at Empress Dowager Cixi. She had been unjustly maligned for so long but folks like Jung Chang are now helping to render justice.
Either the government is accountable and transparent or we would just speculate and worse lose confidence in their leadership.
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