KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia's main body of Islamic clerics has issued an edict banning tomboys in the Muslim-majority country, ruling that girls who act like boys violate the tenets of Islam, an official said Friday.
The National Fatwa Council forbade the practice of girls behaving or dressing like boys during a meeting Thursday in northern Malaysia, said Harussani Idris Zakaria, the mufti of northern Perak state, who attended the gathering.
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"The National Fatwa Council"
"The National Fatwa Council"
When you have an organisation whose exclusive purpose is to find new things to outlaw, you are fucked.
So... they're not allowed to be feminine, because that tempts weak-minded men, and they're not allowed to not be feminine either?
Why not just admit that you want to ban women?
@ Nevermore: That's really a terrible idea. If only either of you [Islam and the people who hate it] could have a logical argument with each other instead of cutting each other's heads off.
Well, the Extreme Islam, anyway.
Also, you are either a good Poe or ... Something else entirely. That didn't look like sarcasm at all.
Way to support traditional gender roles. Now we can all re-enact the dark ages!
Die in a fire, islamofascist fuckwits.
...errr....
Am I missing something?
Have I failed my sarcasm detection roll?
I take back my previous statement. I apologise if it offended anyone.
My opinion on the subject is that Islam is an oppressive religion which violates human rights left right and centre. I do not "hate" Islam - but I do hate theocracy and people who enforce it.
@ Scubajesus: That must have made you feel twingey all over!
I'm guessing "acting masculine" means standing up on one's hind legs, using one's brain, and smiling occasionally.
fundies of any stripe just can't help interfering in other people's livees, even when it's nothing to do with them and affects them not one iota.
Busybodies at best, executioners at worst
@GreenEyedLilo
It did, especially since, representing my country's views, I had to get up and denounce a government official who was arrested for homosexuality. Poor guy.
Crazy muslims! There oughta be a TV show about them...
Oh, and anonymous and Angelica Einstellsehn are goddamn morons.
Nevermore: My apologies. Perhaps I have been on this site too long and mistook it as seriousness. Still, it helps when you're actually funny; unfortunately, such sentiments have been expressed in seriousness, so I wasn't very amused.
Dave: Oh, please. It was a mistake. You must not get out much if you think I'm a moron.
Meh-Master: Behaving in any way like rational human beings instead of subservient doormats whose only thought is pleasing their owners and whose only sentence is "As you command, Master", and not wearing those bags that cover them completely so that men don't have to control themselves.
Of course, I'm a tad bitter...
Confused?
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