Nov
13
2008
Tomboy protests a security threat: Police
Posted by: in Yoga Exercises, tags: Bloggers, Demonstrations, Edict, Excerpt, Fatwa, Kuala Lumpur, Muslim Women, Random, Reuters, Security Police, Security Threat, Tomboys, Trousers, Young GirlsRandom Feed wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s police, who have recently cracked down on dissident bloggers and broken up anti-government demonstrations, say that protests over an edict against Muslim women wearing trousers are a security threat. Mainly Muslim Malaysia’s National Fatwa Council recently issued a religious ruling that wearing trousers was un-Islamic. It said that, by wearing trousers, young girls risked becoming “tomboys” who became sexually active. That move triggered small protests lat
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