Fame must have gotten to Nicole's head, so much for declaring on national newspaper that she’s grounded.
In her rally speech at Mountbatten on Monday evening, the 24 year old said, “On behalf of the Chinese Singaporeans, I would like to apologise to the Muslim community for the comments that MM Lee made.”
In his recently published book, MM Lee suggested that Singaporean Muslims should be less strict in their Islamic observances in order to integrate better into society. However, he later issued a statement and said that he stands corrected on how well-integrated Malay-Muslims are in Singapore.
Cheap shot or election tactic, Nicole represents the fourth generation Singaporeans who have been brought up in peaceful and prosperous times and been blessed with higher education. Such callousness and disrespect to an elder and to one of our founding fathers no less is representative of, to quote MM Lee “It is a footloose generation that has not experienced the past and believes that Singapore is now an areoplane that is flying safely and can go on autopilot and anybody can take over.”The upstart should be humble and learn to show respect bearing in mind that while there are many first time voters now, the number of aging voters will be a factor in future elections. The NSP hierarchy would do well to educate her unless as alarmingly obvious she has already become the party chief!
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