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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) by Phoenix666 on Monday May 01 2017, @04:36PM (6 children)
It is true Muslims aren't the only ones to do stuff like this. The Sephardic Jews in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, had the length of dedicated bike lanes that ran through their neighborhood chopped out because they didn't want their young men seeing women cycling by in bike shorts. Of course, Amish have a severe dress code as well.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by DutchUncle on Monday May 01 2017, @06:27PM (5 children)
Not Sephardic; Hassidic. Sephardic refers to a geographic regional background. Hassidic is the ultra-Orthodox sect.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @08:17PM (3 children)
It's all the same fucking shit. Primitive desert religions, to include Christianity, do not belong in Europe.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @01:44AM (2 children)
How the fuck did this stupid post get a +3 insightful?
Not only are you denying reality about christianity in europe
You are make a ridiculously gross generalization about more than half the planet's population
As if sufis are even remotely like opus dei.
All you are doing is bragging about your ignorance. "They all look the same to me."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @06:55AM (1 child)
As if sufis are even remotely like opus dei.
Um, Sufis are nothing like Opus Dei! OD is a fascist Catholic organization, started by fascists, continued by fascists, and pretty much fascists all the way down. Sufis are the mystics of Islam, which is no small feat in a religion that tends to abhor and persecute mysticism. Maybe you should spin about in a circle, in your very nice skirt and even nicer hat with a tassel, until you fall down and see God. Or you could just take drugs, quicker and more likely to get the Muslims to execute you. But clearly, you know nothing whereof you speak, oh Anonymous Coward of Little Knowledge!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @05:12PM
Woooosh!
Super-sonic wooosh!
I think you need to familiarize yourself with the idom "as if."
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday May 01 2017, @09:37PM
You're right. I meant to say 'Satmar' and my brain substituted 'Sephardic' instead. My best friend is Orthodox and as a progressive already has a complex relationship with his sect, but the Satmar he won't go near.
Washington DC delenda est.