You've got to be kidding me....

Was reading Christine's blog bout an article in yesterday's Star Newspaper. Seems there is a Malaysian group (comprised of university students. Yes, university students!), whose vice-president is a woman (yes, a woman!). They claim that government school girls' school uniforms are too sexy and encourage rape, premarital sex, prostitution and bastard children! Now I really think Malaysia is slowly being taken over my religious extremists. This brings back one of my pet peeves about my beloved homeland (read my previous posts regarding this issue) I'm just too horribly disgusted and aghast to say anymore. The following is the newspaper article:


School uniform sexy, says group

KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian group condemned the uniform worn by girls at government schools, saying it encouraged rape and pre-marital sex.

“The white blouse is too transparent for girls and it becomes a source of attraction,” National Islamic Students Association of Malaysia vice-president Munirah Bahari said in a statement.

“It becomes a distraction to men, who are drawn to it, whether or not they like looking at it,” she said, calling for a review of uniform policy so that it did not violate Islamic ideals.

In multicultural Malaysia, home to majority-Muslim Malays as well as ethnic Chinese and Indians, female students at government schools have a choice of wearing a white blouse with a knee-length skirt or pinafore.

They may also wear a “baju kurung” and a headscarf is optional for Malay students.

Munirah said that “covering up” according to Islamic precepts was important to fend off social ills, including “rape, sexual harassment and even premarital sex.”

“This leads to babies born out of wedlock and, to an extent, even prostitution,” she said.

“Decent clothes which are not revealing can prevent and protect women from any untoward situations,” she said, suggesting that girls wear a blouse of a different colour or with an undergarment.

However, the girls themselves also came in for criticism, with the association saying that some used the white blouse to lure men.

“This is the source of the problem, where we can see that schoolgirls themselves are capable of using this to attract men to them,” Munirah said.

“This could see them getting molested, having premarital sex and all sorts of things.” – AFP

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/5/22/nation/21326822&sec=nation



For the benefit of the few non-Malaysian readers of my blog, allow me to give you a clearer idea of the utter stupidity and ignorance of the group's claims:

This is my youngest sister, Yi Lynn. She is wearing a standard secondary school girl's uniform. It consists of a white cotton collared blouse and a light blue pinafore, which is usually knee-length or just above the knees. The other option is the baju kurung, a traditional Malay dress which is white at the top and light blue at the bottom. It's basically long-sleeved, tubular, all the way down to the ankles.

Do tell me Dear Readers, doesn't my sister look 'too sexy for school?' Doesn't she look sinfully seductive? So much so that men who lay eyes on her disgustingly revealing attire can't help but rape her senseless? After all, it is in man's nature to rape, and it is in women's nature to be sinful in all manner of shape and form. Women shouldn't be seen or heard! Lest they tempt males into damnation with their wicked, lustful ways!

Fucktards. Go tell that to the toddlers, frail grandmothers and young women who were clad in tudung, baju kurung, covered their aurat as stated in their Holy Book. They are rape victims too! It saddens me more that it was a woman who made these comments. The ignorance and shallow-mindedness is so deeply entrenched in our society. *Sigh*...

Read also the 2 responses to the article:
Senseless Attack on Uniform
Don't Push Blame on Women's Attire

OMGWTF how could anyone do this

Even animals don't do this.

Was reading my sister's blog when I found out that last Monday, a sports bag containing a dead child was discovered in PJS1/48 Petaling Utama. This poor girl, Nurin Jazlin was only eight years old. She was raped, tortured and disposed of in such an inhumane way. She was found with a brinjal and cucumber stuffed up her private parts. Yes, there are countless rape cases going on in my beloved home country, but this has been one of the most disturbing yet.

According to my mom, there was a case a couple of decades ago where a girl was found with a wooden pole shoved right through from her privates and up out of her mouth. There is a Malay term for that, and it's called sula. Something useful I learnt from Form 5 Malay literature.

There are people who believe that it is the woman's fault that she is raped. Especially women who wear so-called 'revealing' clothing. Men cannot help but lust after women, so raping a sexy woman is only giving into their 'natural urges'. There are some who think that "pretty women shouldn't work, they should stay at home and be good wives". This is because their 'beauty' is an unholy lure and it causes men to fall into sin. Some have gone as far as to establish gender segregation in public areas, lest a male and female commit some heinous act of indecency. Come on, think about it. Who gets raped? Women (mostly). Are all of them 'pretty'? Are all of them wearing 'sexy clothes'? Infants, old ladies, even defenseless, innoncent little girls like Nurin were raped! In what way do you think these victims deserved their fate? There is no way one can blame them for this. If men truly are the 'stronger sex', how then can they put fault on the weak?

I know no one has voiced this in regards to the Nurin Jazlin case. I'm just ranting based on past events, since we're on the topic of rape and brutality against females.

Nurin Jazlin's family have finally accepted her death. Though we all share their grief, most of us will never truly comprehend the depth of their anguish and pain. May this inhuman killer be be brought to justice, and may he receive the consequences of his brutality.

Rape is a crime of violence, NOT lust. I hope that Nurin, along with the countless victims of the past have found peace on the other side.


Articles: Child found sexually assaulted and killed
Dad accepts DNA results

'Personal Matter'?

Article from here: http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5620461/teen-model-escapes-abusive-malaysian-prince/

Teen model escapes 'abusive' Malaysian prince
AFP June 1, 2009, 6:36 pm


JAKARTA (AFP) - A teenage US-Indonesian model has returned to her family in Indonesia with tales of abuse, rape and torture at the hands of a Malaysian prince, after her dramatic escape with the help of Singapore police.

Manohara Odelia Pinot, 17, told reporters she was treated like a sex slave after her marriage last year to Tengku Temenggong Mohammad Fakhry, the prince of Malaysia's Kelantan state.

Her mother, Daisy Fajarina, said she would press charges against the 31-year-old prince, and blamed the Malaysian and Indonesian governments for trying to cover up the alleged abuse.

"The things I've been afraid of were revealed to be true. Manohara has suffered physical abuse. She's got several razor cuts on her chest," Fajarina told AFP on Monday.

"No parent could be silent if their child was treated in such a barbaric way."

The Malaysian government had ignored her pleas for access to her daughter and had blocked her from entering the country, she said, while the Indonesian embassy had said that Manohara was fine with her new husband.

But the young woman -- a well-known socialite in Jakarta -- said her life at the royal palace involved a "daily routine" of rape, abuse, torture and occasional drug injections that made her vomit blood.

She said she was usually held under guard in her bedroom at the palace and was injected with tranquilisers whenever she complained.

"I am still traumatised by all that happened and it has left an impact on me," she told reporters in Jakarta on Sunday, after escaping the royal family during a trip to Singapore over the weekend.

"Sexual abuse and sexual harassment were like a daily routine for me, and he did that every time I did not want to have sexual intercourse," she was quoted as saying in The Jakarta Globe.

"I could never think a normal man could do such things," she said, adding: "Some parts of my body were cut by a razor."

"I've been treated like an animal. I'm like his property and I was in his room and whenever he wants to play with me he just goes into the room and plays with me. I'm like an object."

The teenager -- whose fairy-tale wedding to a prince captured the imagination of Indonesia -- said she would be tortured if she did not appear to be happy when she attended social functions with Fakhry.

She said she secretly called Singaporean police and pleaded for help after the royal family took her to Singapore when they accompanied Fakhry's father, Sultan Ismail Petra Shah II, for medical treatment.

"The police told Fakhry that he would be held in jail if he did not let me go. No one could force me against my will in Singapore and I knew I had a chance to escape," she said.

The model once voted as being among Indonesia's "100 Precious Women" said she escaped her guards by pushing the Singapore hotel elevator's emergency button.

They were reluctant to chase her because they knew the scene would be captured on security cameras.

She blasted the Indonesian embassy in Malaysia, saying: "They made it worse by telling lies, saying that I was fine while I was suffering in Kelantan."

A spokesman for the Indonesian foreign ministry insisted the embassy had done everything it could to help Manohara and said the government would assist her if she wanted to file charges against her husband.

But Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said the government would not investigate the allegations.

"I think this is more of a personal matter. To date we have not been dragged into it, so we want to leave it as it is," he told reporters in Kuala Lumpur.

Malaysia's royal rulers used to enjoy immunity from criminal and civil charges but the privilege was removed in 1993.

There has been no comment from the Kelantan royal family.

Manohara's lawyer, Yuri Darmas, said she would have a medical examination to back up her allegations of abuse.

"We need one to two days to gather evidence before we file a lawsuit to the Malaysian police," he said, adding that he intended to pursue criminal and civil lawsuits against the prince.

Manohara has already filed for divorce, her mother said.

Another grandmother story

On another note, another one of my grandma's friends got harrassed by a flasher in the park. This shows that contrary to what some Kelantan officials say, you don't have to be young, pretty and wearing sexy clothing to be sexually assulted. Rape is a crime of violence, not a crime of passion. Why can't they understand that. And no, not all men think women = sex = evil = ban sexy clothing. Not all the time, anyway. It seems that despite living in the age of reason and respect, some people still have a morbid obsession about sex.