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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: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @05:18PM (4 children)
So many people with their own agendas are stridently declaring that this happened because of islam.
When in fact it happened because of one asshole - the Tournament Director.
The article also says that the girl's coach had never seen a dess-code like this in 20 years of coaching kids.
Furthermore the newspaper reporting on this stupidity is also Malaysian.
They are muslim too and they think its out of line else they wouldn't be reporting on it in the first place.
What's racist here is attributing one asshole's actions to his muslimness while simultaneously denying all the good peoples' actions connection to their muslimness.
(Score: 2) by bart9h on Monday May 01 2017, @05:23PM (2 children)
"we should perhaps note" == "attributing" ???
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @05:31PM
Please tell me you are joking?
When you mention an unrelated characteristic that is an attribution.
Its like when a newspaper reports on criminals and mentions their race when they are black but does not mention their race when they are white.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @09:24PM
If this had happened in Italy do you think we'd have been noting that it's a majority Christian country?
(Score: 2) by seeprime on Monday May 01 2017, @05:41PM
The fact that exposed 12 year old legs are seductive to this perv, should be enough to have him disqualified, not the girl.