No mini-skirts please, we're Malaysian....I do not think I could live there now

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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Authorities in Malaysia's conservative Terengganu state plan to ban non-Muslim women wearing mini-skirts or figure-hugging dresses to work as part of a drive against indecency, state officials say.




Muslim women will have to wear headscarves and loose dresses to office, they said on Monday, adding employers risked losing their business licences and face fines if the staff flouted the rules.

"The general policy is that non-Muslim women should dress decently," said Hadi Awang, chief minister of the northeastern state and leader of the hardline Islamic party PAS.

PAS or Parti Islam se-Malaysia (PAS) is the main opposition party in Malaysia where general elections are due this year.

"The PAS government will not tolerate females, including those from different religions, wearing such clothes during working hours," one state official said.

It wasn't immediately known when the ban would come into force.

Women's groups railed against the planned ban.

"It's clearly an encroachment of the private space of women living in Terengganu," said Cynthia Gabriel, a women's rights advocate for the Kuala Lumpur-based Voice of Malaysia.

"It's certainly a step backward," she added.

PAS, the main threat to Malaysia's multi-racial government coalition, recently unveiled plans for an orthodox Islamic state, including strict sharia laws.

It rules just two of the 13 states in multi-racial, multi-religious Malaysia.

But in the two states PAS runs, gambling is banned and so is dancing and public consumption of liquor by non-Muslims. Men and women are required to use separate checkouts at supermarkets.
 

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Having frends from there and lived there for a little while, this is view of Malaysia is not reflective of the realities there.

KL is paradise, fab food, gorgeous chicks, shopping is cheap, decent nightlife, and they absolutely love white guys.

Terranganu is on the Eastern Coast of Malaysia. Traditionally its a more conservative rural part of the country, and the outlook and way of life is certainly miles different from Kuala Lumpur or the highly developed Western part of the Malay peninsula
 

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decent nightlife, and they absolutely love white guys.
You obviously have not been to Jakarta!
By the way I totally disagree.
 

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acw,

They're talking about Malaysia not Indonesia. There are a lot more Muslims in Indonesia than Malaysia. Seeing that you claim to live in that area, it's somewhat surprising for you to make such a gaffe.
 

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There is a direct,intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy.Sexual privation induces hysteria,,which can be transformed into war fever and leader worship.
 

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