Imams issue edict against ‘tomboys’

[ccharles000]

http://www.365gay.com/news/imams-issue-edict-against-tomboys/

(Kuala Lumpur) Malaysia’s main body of Islamic clerics has issued an edict banning ‘tomboys’ in the Muslim-majority country, ruling that girls who act like boys violate the tenets of Islam, an official said Friday.

The National Fatwa Council forbade the practice of girls behaving or dressing like boys during a meeting Thursday in northern Malaysia, said Harussani Idris Zakaria, the mufti of northern Perak state, who attended the gathering.

Harussani said an increasing number of Malaysian girls behave like tomboys, and that some of them engage in homosexuality. Homosexuality is not explicitly banned in Malaysia, but it is effectively illegal under a law that prohibits sex acts “against the order of nature.”

Harussani said the council’s ruling was not legally binding because it has not been passed into law, but that tomboys should be banned because their actions are immoral.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s a law or not. When it’s wrong, it’s wrong. It is a sin,” Harussani told The Associated Press. “Tomboy (behavior) is forbidden in Islam.”

[msongs]

1. death to all women who refuse to be slaves to men .. that's what he really wants nt

[ccharles000]

9. yup

[skooooo]

2. I still say...

...kick them in the shins. That's what any reasonable tomboy would do!

[HeresyLives]

3. Tomboys???

I would never have survived in Malaysia!

[Wiley50]

4. I wouldn't either. They hang pot smokers

That's one country I plan to stay out of due to their harsh justice system

[nichomachus]

5. Mankind will only be free when

the last king is hanged with the entrails of the last priest. --Diderot

[ccharles000]

6. I agree

[tjwash]

7. Ah...good ol' Malaysia...where they still cane people for breaking the law.

At least they got rid of that old,corrupt Dr. M though as their PM.

i actually enjoyed the time I lived out there though. It's a beautiful part of the world.

[ccharles000]

8. kick