Sekiranya pemakaian tali leher and kot dianggap sebagai lambang penindasan atau warisan penjajah, tidakkah pemakaian songkok mungkin dianggap sebagai lambang penindasan suatu kaum ke atas kaum yang lain, apa lagi apabila pemakaiannya dipaksa atau diwajibkan, bukan cuma digalakkan?

Tidakkah saudara Sebol terperasan bahwa banyak dari tindakan-tindakan yang dianggap sebagai menindas budaya dan kepercayaan serta pegangan-pegangan kaum minoriti negara kita yang semakin menjadi-jadi baru-baru ini, sebenarnya diusulkan oleh “Little Napoleon” (atau mungkin lebih tepat lagi, “maharajalela”) dan bukan usul dari Raja-Raja sendiri?
Apakah golongan “little Napoleon” ini telah menganggap diri mereka sebagai golongan yang lebih berkuasa dari Raja-Raja, hinggakan memperkenalkan usul-usul yang menindas kaum-kaum minoriti, masakan Raja-Raja sendiri tidak bermaksud demikian?

Sepertimana yang telah ditulis oleh JB EC Parent, mungkin juga ada kebaikannya sekiranya pemakaian songkok tidak dipaksa ke atas kaum bukan Melayu, supaya tradisi songkok dijadikan perkara remeh-temeh.
Kaum bukan-Melayu mungkin tidak dapat menjaga keutuhan atau kehormatan yang patut diberi kepada tradisi songkok, sepertimana yang dilakukan oleh kaum Melayu.
Kaum bukan-Melayu mungkin bertanya, “Apakah salahnya meminum arak semasa memakai songkok?”
“Apakah salahnya berjudi atau memakan babi atau bercumbu-cumbuan semasa memakai songkok?”
“Apakah salahnya menyembah di dalam kuil-kuil semasa bersongkok?”

Sebenarnya, negara kita yang bermasyarakat majmuk, yang terdiri dari berbagai kaum, patut bangga dengan keharmonian berbilang kaum, and patut menjauhi dari usul-usul atau tindakan-tindakan yang bersifat atau berbau penindasan.

Sekiranya tidak dipaksa orang bukan Melayu memakai songkok, tetapi cuma digalakkan, kemungkinan orang bukan Melayu akan menghormati tradisi songkok.

I’m sorry I may have made a mistake – Saudari Fong Po Kuan was _compelled to wear the tudung_ for her convocation. She did attend her convocation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fong_Po_Kuan

I had mistaken another poster in one of these “compulsory songkok” threads, ie “malaysiatoday.com” who had boycotted his convocation at UTM because he was forced to wear the songkok:
http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2008/01/11/songkok-compulsory-wear-for-jb-english-college-prefects/#comment-68865

Godfather,
If there is a directive that non-Muslim policewomen must wear the tudung during official parades and ceremonies, what would you advise the policewomen? Refuse to attend the official ceremonies?
But what if it is compulsory to attend the ceremonies?
Go for MC? Resign?
Refuse to sign up as policewomen in the first place?
I’m assuming that the “policewomen tudung” directive is still in place – I wonder – can anyone give the figures of how many non-muslim women have signed up as policewomen ever since that directive came into effect in March 2006?

Godfather,
You ask that we read through your posts.
After reading through your posts, I noticed that you have AVOIDED to reply to a SPECIFIC question of mine, ie
“If there is a directive that non-Muslim policewomen must wear the tudung during official parades and ceremonies, what would you advise the policewomen? Refuse to attend the official ceremonies?
But what if it is compulsory to attend the ceremonies?
Go for MC? Resign?
Refuse to sign up as policewomen in the first place?”

This was in followup to your advice:
Godfather said on Tues 15 Jan 2008 at 17:41.11:
“For every one of you who believe that the wearing of the songkok at official functions is wrong (or a gradual erosion of your rights) then don’t go for the official functions. Don’t be a prefect. Don’t be a datuk. There are countless others who are willing to do so because they are not offended by it.”

Can someone tell us the figures of how many non-Muslim have joined the police force since 2006, as compared to before?

Godfather, I will progressively ask of your response to situations where such compulsions are being implemented in a creeping fashion to erode rights and values and culture of the minorities, to see if your advice of simple “appeasement” (accept it or run away) will continue to stand in the face of continued encroachments.
Please do not run away from answering them.

Did you say that schools will not allow compulsive wearing of the tudung since education is a right?

Godfather, what now of Universities which do the same ie insist on wearing of the tudung? At first for ceremonies, then later in more and more areas.
Do you agree that there is the possibility that once this is “accepted” as “the norm” in varsities, that this will soon creep into secondary schools, as part of some “new rule” implemented by some “little osama?”

If “baca doa” can be implemented in a school with only 10% muslim students, can the tudung be compelled in a school with 90% muslim students?
Will you also then ask the students who refuse to wear the tudung to go and seek another school which does not impose such a rule?

Now, coming back to my argument of of mutual understanding and mutual respect and respectful reciprocity, how do you think muslims would feel if a principal in a school with non-muslim majority, implements a rule which disallows wearing of the tudung in a school science laboratories, as well as compels female students to roll up their sleeves until their elbows, all these in the name of laboratory safety?
(bunsen burners and chemicals and biological hazards being possible sources of danger)

And if the students and parents object, will you then, in a reciprocal manner, also ask the students and parents to transfer the student to a school which does not enforce such a rule?