“No India, Only Malay”: Singapore Muslim Couple “Shooed Away” From Ramzan Snacks
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While Jahabar Shalih is Indian, his wife Farah Nadya is Indian-Malay.Singapore: A leading supermarket has apologised after stopping an Indian-origin Muslim couple from tasting its complimentary snacks provided during Ramzan, saying that those were only for Malays, according to a media report.Jahabar Shalih, 36, and his wife Farah Nadya, 35, said a male employee at the supermarket run by the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) on April 9 “shooed” them away from the snack stand when they were doing their usual grocery shopping with their two young children, Channel News Asia reported on Monday.While Jahabar is Indian, his wife Farah is Indian-Malay.Farah had on Sunday recounted the "distasteful" encounter in a Facebook post, which has garnered more than 500 reactions.Jahabar told ...