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posted by on Monday May 01 2017, @03:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the they-grow-up-so-quickly-these-days dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @07:47PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @07:47PM (#502478)

    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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @08:54PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @08:54PM (#502501)

    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)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @01:17AM (#502583)

      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

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @06:23AM (#502702)

        You're right, Islam is a spectrum of rape, mutilation, and abuse of women and young girls, not just what occurs in Saudi Arabia.