Sunday, July 28, 2013

Malaysia: From beauty pageant to politics...

The Chinese community is of late engrossed with the developments on the sex bloggers and eating at school changing room while in the Malay society, it's the beauty pageant involving four Muslim women.

These four young ladies were all hailing from Eurasian families, partly Malay and partly western lineages. Perhaps because of that these four ladies are relatively more open-minded than their peers.

They took part in Miss World Malaysia pageant, and all of them made it to the final 20.

The question is, Malaysia has had a fatwa banning Muslim women from taking part in beauty contests as early as the 1990s.

In Malaysia, a fatwa is a kind of decision or verdict by a mufti enjoying official status on whether certain behaviors are in compliance with the Islamic teachings, and the same verdict is legally binding.

 These four young ladies' behaviour was seen as contravening the religious fatwa, and they could face jail sentence once convicted in a syariah court. Full story...

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