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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Banning Tight Jeans!

In West Aceh, Indonesia over  20,000 long skirts have been issued to its female population as part of a new law....Banning Muslim women from  appearing too curvaceous in public....A  former  school teacher and traditional Islamic “healer” is behind the movement....He says he's on a mission to implement perhaps the most severe  form of sharia (Islamic law) ever  seen in Indonesia.

While most  women in Aceh wear the jilbab, or headscarf, many follow the current Indonesian fashion for tight jeans, even if they are modestly worn under a tunic...Mr Ramli  says there's  a problem with sexy dressing.... We see that rapes take place in big cities where free access is allowed between different sexes.... Here the economy is small and we don't want it to be like that....I always thought  that rape was  about power, not lust....I believe  rape will happen no matter what a woman is wearing....The idea of  policing the streets and examining women  clothing is also scary...Article here!
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