MALAYSIA MUSLIM CLERIC HATE!
Malaysian Islamic Cleric Proposes Chastity Belts To Stop Rape
February 16th 2007
A leading Malaysian Muslim cleric
has suggested that all women should be fitted with chastity belts as a deterrent
to rape and incest, a news report said Friday.
Abu Hassan Al-Hafiz, an influential cleric from the northeastern Terengganu
state, said that women were most safe from sexual predators if they donned some
form of barrier to their sexual organs.
"We have even come across a number of unusual sex cases, where even senior
citizens and children are not spared. The best way to avert sex perpetrators is
to wear protection," Abu Hassan said in a sermon late Thursday, quoted by the
Star daily.
"My intention is not to offend women but to safeguard them from sex maniacs.
Besides, husbands could also feel more secure, if you know what I mean."
Abu Hassan said that the practise of women wearing chastity belts in Malaysia
could be traced to as recent as the mid-1960s.
From The Times
November 1, 2007
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 that 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 should not 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 this year when he revoked a 15-year ban on snooker. He was responsible for the original ban, imposed because the game appeared to encourage gambling.