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Free Malaysia Today reports
At the [Malaysian] National Scholastic Chess Championship 2017, which took place in Putrajaya recently, the girl was informed that what she wore was "improper and had violated the dress code" for the tournament.
[...] The girl's chess coach, Kaushal Khandhar, wrote on Facebook, "In the middle of Round 2, (without stopping the clocks) Chief Arbiter informs my student that the dress she wore was improper and violated the dress code of the tournament.
"It was later informed (by Chief Arbiter) to my student and her mother, that the Tournament Director deemed my student's dress to be 'seductive' and a 'temptation from a certain angle far, far away'."
[...] Kaushal said after discussions with the chief arbiter, the girl was allowed to compete, provided she bought a pair of slacks for the next day, but that decision came at 10pm and with the event at Putrajaya, there was no way the girl's mother could buy anything for the 9am start the next day.
"Before the morning round next day, my student's mother called the tournament director regarding this matter. Initially he had replied that he was not aware of the situation but after a brief discussion, we realised he knew all the details on this incident prior to this phone call.
"He promised to return the call upon discussion with the chief arbiter, but this did not happen. He would further not answer or return any calls by my student's mother", Kaushal wrote, adding that the situation led to the inevitable decision of withdrawal from the tournament altogether."
We should perhaps note here that Malaysia is majority-Muslim.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Monday May 01 2017, @04:22PM (16 children)
Not racist. You're ignorant. Many (perhaps most) Muslims wouldn't allow a girl to compete at all. Many (perhaps most) Muslims think that a girl approaching puberty is ready for breeding, and needs to be married off. The only way for a girl to be "safe" in public, is to wear that damned burka, and it had better cover everything except her fingertips and her eyes.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @04:26PM (7 children)
Clothing that shows skin is a distraction from chess and does not belong at a chess tournament. Take your irrelevant religious bigotry and fuck the hell off, you racist sack of shit.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Monday May 01 2017, @04:39PM
It is only your own sense of inferiority that shows you racism everywhere.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Monday May 01 2017, @04:44PM
Distraction is part of the game. Otherwise why let the players see each others' faces? They should play in front of a monitor showing the chess board, and not in front of an audience. Personally, I think they should have to play naked, in the Vatican, in front of the ESPN cameras.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @05:06PM
Clothing that shows skin is a distraction from chess and does not belong at a chess tournament.
Look at the photo of the girl in her dress. It doesn't "show skin" its a completely normal dress for a 12-year old school girl to wear.
Take your irrelevant religious bigotry and fuck the hell off, you racist sack of shit.
You are right, but for the wrong reasons. Its his connecting this stupidity to islam that is dumb. There is nothing in the reporting to suggest that religiosity is at play. Malaysia isn't the only country where stupid sexist dress-policing occurs on a regular basis. Even today in the UK it is legal for an employer to force women to wear high-heels at work. [telegraph.co.uk]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @05:13PM
But Jared, the only reason you would ever be distracted by seeing a 12 year old girl's arms is because you're a disgusting pedo kidfucker.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @06:18PM
Calm down everyone, at least if he's on here posting his complete stupidity then he not out smashing windows at local universities or attacking "racist" students exiting their classes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @09:59PM (1 child)
I play chess on the beach, you ignorant clod! One of these days I might even play chess on a nude beach...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @02:00PM
One of these days I might even play chess on a nude beach...
You haven't before? All the best players are there!
A nice intellectual game, free of alien parasites [wikia.com], and you can relax and get a nice full body tan without any of those annoying tan lines. That is the way humans were meant to be!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @06:57PM (4 children)
Many (perhaps most) Muslims think that a girl approaching puberty is ready for breeding, and needs to be married off.
That's demonstrably false. American muslim women have the same levels of education and income as muslim men. [washingtontimes.com] A higher percentage of muslim women hold professional jobs than christians. [dallasnews.com] And after jews they are the group most likely to label themselves as liberal. [washingtontimes.com]
And if you think that's unique to american muslims (even though all muslims are the same, right?), in the gulf states the youngest generation of women are far outpacing men in higher education. [pewresearch.org] Like in Saudi where 28% of men attend college compared to 35% of women. That's Saudi Arabia, you know, the goto country for islamafoes to cite how repressive islam is. You don't send your daughter to college if you think her only value is bearing children.
The fact of the matter is that muslims are people just like everybody else. In the 3rd world they suffer from the same 3rd world problems as everybody else. In the first world they do better than most first worlders. You can always cherry pick stats to make them look bad, but that's true of any group of people because that's the nature of grouping people.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @07:47PM (3 children)
Like in Saudi where 28% of men attend college compared to 35% of women
We should note that a Saudi female can't leave the house unless she is in the company of a male guardian.
(Oddly enough, a son can qualify for the role.)
...and she can't drive herself to class either.
While there isn't an actual Saudi law forbidding women from driving, there's nothing to stop the "religious police" from dragging her out of the car and beating her for doing that.
It's not one world.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @08:54PM (2 children)
I'm curious, was this line not enough for?
That's Saudi Arabia, you know, the goto country for islamafoes to cite how repressive islam is.
Or how about this line?
You can always cherry pick stats to make them look bad, but that's true of any group of people because that's the nature of grouping people.
Because Saudi is literally the only country with a ban on women driving. Why do the 32 million muslims in Saudi get to define what is islamic in contradiction to the 1.5 billion other muslims outside of Saudi?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @01:17AM (1 child)
Why do a very few million Americans get to define what is Islamic, and you'll close your eyes to the rest of the world? Oh - you're a sheltered provincial type. Not only do you not know what lies beyond your own borders, but you can't even IMAGINE what lies beyond your own borders.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @06:23AM
You're right, Islam is a spectrum of rape, mutilation, and abuse of women and young girls, not just what occurs in Saudi Arabia.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @07:15PM (2 children)
Many (perhaps most) Muslims think that a girl approaching puberty is ready for breeding, and needs to be married off.
Remember, Christians believe this as well because it's in their holy book.
Where's MikeeUSA when you need him? Something something girl children something Deuter0nomy something.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @02:58PM (1 child)
Don't mention his name, he might appear!
Personally I think that guy is either a troll or a false flag boggie man used by feminist to point at and rally against.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 22 2017, @06:47PM
Dt Chapter 22, verse 28-29, in Hebrew.
Yea, inconceivable that a mmaaaallleeee might like cute young girls.
Who was put in King Soloman's bed to see if he was really dying...
(King Soloman was a crypto feminist too rite?)