Yaacob Ibrahim - Always ready to shove aside his own mother tongue as a foreign language

"Teaching Malay as a foreign language rather than a mother tongue could be one way to halt the decline in fluency among the community"

Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs, Yaacob Ibrahim. The same man who ignored the old canal that was too small and called the Bukit Timah flood a "freak" event.

Read more about Yaacob Ibrahim in "Yaacob Ibrahim - Is this guy worth his million dollar salary?"