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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @05:19PM (3 children)
Leviticus 15:19–31 MSG. God is speaking:
“When a woman has a discharge of blood, the impurity of her menstrual period lasts seven days. Anyone who touches her is unclean until evening. Everything on which she lies or sits during her period is unclean. Anyone who touches her bed or anything on which she sits must wash his clothes and bathe in water; he remains unclean until evening.
“If a man sleeps with her and her menstrual blood gets on him, he is unclean for seven days and every bed on which he lies becomes unclean.
“If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, but not at the time of her monthly period, or has a discharge that continues beyond the time of her period, she is unclean the same as during the time of her period. Every bed on which she lies during the time of the discharge and everything on which she sits becomes unclean the same as in her monthly period. Anyone who touches these things becomes unclean and must wash his clothes and bathe in water; he remains unclean until evening.
“When she is cleansed from her discharge, she is to count off seven days; then she is clean. On the eighth day she is to take two doves or two pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. The priest will offer one for an Absolution-Offering and the other for a Whole-Burnt-Offering. The priest will make atonement for her in the presence of God because of the discharge that made her unclean.
“You are responsible for keeping the People of Israel separate from that which makes them ritually unclean, lest they die in their unclean condition by defiling my Dwelling which is among them.”
If you think MSG is full of shit, here's NIV 15:19 since KJV isn't entirely clear:
When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening.
Looks like Christians are going to need menstrual huts as well. You don't want to burn in hell, do you? These are the laws handed down by God Himself, which all Christians, Jews, and Muslims must obey.
Also in chapter 15, no whacking off, and wet dreams are right out! You're unclean the entire day until evening if you have a wet dream.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Monday May 01 2017, @05:35PM
God didn't half talk some codswallop before he invented science.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @07:40PM (1 child)
Actually, not really. Levitical law was meant to be part of a binding covenant between Yahweh and the children of Israel. Gentiles are not part of that covenant. In fact, this has been settled in the Christian church since the first century (see Acts 15 [biblegateway.com] for reference). And I'm sure that just about any observant Jew would tell you much the same. To be fair to you, though, my impression is that many Christians are similarly confused on this point.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @07:45PM
Well then how am I supposed to hate gays?
You mean I've been avoiding bacon this whole time for no reason? :(