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Women who wear figure-hugging clothes are giving Muslim men sleepless nights and distracting them from prayer, a prominent cleric said yesterday.
Attacking the appeal of modern Malaysian women, Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat — a fundamentalist Muslim cleric who controls the main opposition party and one of the country’s 13 states — said that provocative clothes were a form of “emotional abuse”.
Clothes that are modest by Western standards were, he said, stopping the country’s men getting a good night’s sleep. “We always [hear about] the abuse of children and wives in households, which is easily perceived by the eye but the emotional abuse of men cannot be seen,” Mr Nik Abdul Aziz said. “Our prayers become unfocused and our sleep is often disturbed.” Like so many of his previous outbursts, the comments drew instant criticism from women’s groups.
Previous advice from Mr Nik Abdul Aziz to Malaysia’s women included the suggestion that they would be at a lower risk of being raped if they abandoned their lipstick and perfume. Mr Nik Abdul Aziz posted a diagram of an appropriately dressed woman on his party’s website. The picture shows a woman in a baggy, floor-length dress with a scarf covering her hair.
As the minister of the northeastern state of Kelantan, Mr Nik Abdul Aziz has imposed fines on Muslim women who fail to wear headscarves, and imposed other draconian restrictions. As well as describing smokers as “similar to certain animals which have no brains to think rationally”, he also argued that they should not be allowed to run as candidates in a general election.
He has heavily criticised Malaysia’s endemic corruption, describing bribe-takers as intellectual weaklings who are destined for an eternity in Hell.
Mr Nik Abdul Aziz did reveal a liberal streak this year when he revoked a 15-year ban on snooker. He was responsible for the original ban, imposed because the game appeared to encourage gambling.
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In Islam men and women must both dress modestly as to keep away these results of sleepless night and unfocused prayers.
Afesha, Sugarland, USA
May I suggest a quick course of atheism as a cure for sleepless nights. It works wonders on unfocused prayer as well.
William Dove, Darwin, Australia
This cleric is a joke but he has his followers. I don't know if he is taking Kelatan forward or backward. If not for the oil revenue, there's hardly anything work there. Perhaps idle minds naturally wander to women and sex.
Kyet, Hong Kong, China
Men give me sleepless nights - those fine specimens dancing away in nightclubs or parading round the swimming pool in just their shorts. What does the good sheikh suggest they where to stop keeping me up at night?
Jemma, London,
Everything this man has said appears to show problems with Malaysian muslim men, not women. Perhaps he should start exercising a bit of self control and not blame his weaknesses on women.
Eleanor, London, England
i would have no objections to Moslem women having to veil their faces and wear full-length clothing if Moslem men had to do the same. At the moment, it appears to be a sin for women to dress 'provocatively' and show their faces in public; but men can dress as provocatively as they like, and nobody accuses them of sinning. Presumably it doesn't matter if Moslem women have sleepless nights fantasising about men...
Bob, Birmingham,
the old man obviously has no self control, i wonder what he was like in his youth...
joe bloggs, london,
if the people who follow your religion are not strong enough mentally to resist the urges of flesh, what does it say about your religion? it must be spineless, immoral and devoid of any real culture.
a non muslim, uk,
If you believe in God, you won't question what He orders us to do. If you don't know Islam, don't act like as if you know it by heart. His sayings are a manifestation of what Islam has taught us for the last 1400 years. With all the morals are down - adultery everywhere, newly-born-babies sent to toilets, outside wedlock sex is common, we should do something to fix this world we are living in. When we are lost throughout our life, what should we do? Go back to basic.
Ahmad Hamzah, Kelantan, Malaysia
While women do sometimes give me sleepless nights, it is certainly not because of anything related to their dressing. Having lived in Malaysia for many years before coming to London, that minister's comments is hardly surprising. He even once commented that women shoul be banned from Quran recital competitions as their voices can be arousing. What a dirty old man he is.
Ken, London,
Absolutely right. I get this problem all the time.
Andrew Milner, Yokohama, Japan