Women’s fashion is keeping men awake – Says Cleric
I just read this article, and I am also very concerned.
WOMEN who wear figure-hugging clothes are giving Muslim men sleepless nights and distracting them from prayer, a prominent cleric said yesterday.
Attacking the appeal of modern Malaysian women, Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat – a fundamentalist Muslim cleric who controls the main opposition party and one of the country’s 13 states – said provocative clothes were a form of “emotional abuse”.
Clothes that are modest by Western standards were, he said, stopping the country’s men getting a good night’s sleep.
“We always (hear about) the abuse of children and wives in households, which is easily perceived by the eye but the emotional abuse of men cannot be seen,” Mr Nik Abdul Aziz said.
“Our prayers become unfocused and our sleep is often disturbed.”
Like so many of his previous outbursts, the comments drew instant criticism from women’s groups.
Previous advice from Mr Nik Abdul Aziz to Malaysia’s women included the suggestion that they would be at a lower risk of being raped if they abandoned their lipstick and perfume.
Mr Nik Abdul Aziz posted a diagram of an appropriately dressed woman on his party’s website. The picture shows a woman in a baggy, floor-length dress with a scarf covering her hair.
As the minister of the northeastern state of Kelantan, Mr Nik Abdul Aziz has imposed fines on Muslim women who fail to wear headscarves, and imposed other draconian restrictions.
As well as describing smokers as “similar to certain animals which have no brains to think rationally”, he also argued that they shouldn’t be allowed to run as candidates in a general election.
He has heavily criticised Malaysia’s endemic corruption, describing bribe-takers as intellectual weaklings who are destined for an eternity in hell.
Mr Nik Abdul Aziz did reveal a liberal streak when he revoked a 15-year ban on snooker. He was responsible for the original ban, imposed because the game appeared to encourage gambling.
- The Times
Yes indeed, pictures like the one above would seriously disturb my sleep too.
Get back to your baggy floor-length dresses, fatties.
Tags: Malaysia, muslims, stupidity
02.Nov.07 
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Stupidity knows no bounds…
I just read this on news.com.au…
Boy dies in parents’ bid for smarter son
AN Indian couple has been charged with the murder of one of their sons after they tried to transfuse his blood into his elder brother to make him smarter.
The Indian Express newspaper said the couple were both doctors and the mother had a dream in which a guru advised blood transfusion to make their elder son do better at his studies.
Police said the couple initially claimed the 11-year-old boy was killed in an attack on the family, but later the father confessed.
“If there were any outside attackers they would not have attacked using surgical instruments,” police official Hanif Quereshi was quoted as saying by the daily.
The father has been remanded in police custody and the mother is receiving psychiatric treatment after attempting suicide.
Their elder son is fighting for life in a hospital in the western town of Rohtak.
“..the couple were both doctors..” – Makes you wonder where they got their qualifications, doesn’t it? Maybe it was off the back of a weeties packet?
I think it’s time for natural selection to kick in right about now..
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