The wearing of trousers, jeans, or any tight clothing becomes illegal for women in West Aceh.
West Aceh (Aceh Barat) regency in the province of Aceh in trailblazing fashion has become the first administrative area to ban Muslim women from wearing any type of tight clothing, specifically jeans/pants/trousers.
Criminal
While in other parts of Aceh, where Islamic sharia law is fitfully and gradually being introduced, women are only required to at least cover their head hair and not to flaunt their womanly shapes, West Aceh has seized the day in specifically banning jeans.
Caught
Roadblocks and patrols will be carried out, with the local government preparing 20,000 long flowing skirts to be distributed to women caught in violation of the law. Offenders will be required to change into the skirts on the spot, with their jeans being confiscated.
Offenders will also have their names taken down, and on their third offence will be taken into detention.
Under the new law, coming into force on 26th May 2010, shops and traders will also be forbidden from selling women’s jeans and trousers.
Regent Ramli Mansyur admits the regulation is controversial, but that it is a necessary part of the application of Islamic law.
As a leader I have to implement this law because in the hereafter I will be held responsible for my actions on Earth, and I will be held responsible by society.
He says, in a democratic spirit, that all elements of society support the new law, in majority terms. okezone
@ET:
You are Indonesian (non-white) and live in the USA, don’t you? How would you react if I were to walk on 5th Avenue in a KKK outfit and pretend it’s nothing but an act of devotion, freedom of expression and liberation from or rebellion against capitalist exploitation? Wouldn’t you consider that an insult to your intelligence?
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Probably I just raise my eyebrow a little bit while, and assess you whether you’re a threat or not, then when you do nothing dangerous, I’ll walk away and do not care anymore. Living in USA for some years, I already develop my immune system. USA is nothing less than any other country when it comes to what you call as “insulting our intelligence”. I’ve seen illegal immigrants protests, I’ve seen black people march, Amish guys walking with their traditional cloths, a girl with her punk-style hair-ear&nose piercing-plus some tattoes working at customer service at Walmart. All people that I mentioned fall into a category of “strange”, “odd”, “lame”, according to the normal standard, or at least to what US people call as normal. But I can live with them.
Now tell me, when some Indonesians greet you with annoying sentence “Hello, mister” or “hello, bule”, will you directly assume that ALL Indonesians are annoying too? When some girls cheat on you, will you call ALL girls like that? Say yes, then I can understand why you’re so overwhelmingly affected by some jilbabers that adore Osama. And I also will stop seeing you as a logic guy.
@ Nay:
It’s great fun going up to these heavily clothed women, telling them how sexy they are, and being surprised at how easily they believe me.
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Is it a complain or what? They are normal women, just like me, just like others. Of course they will respond to your compliment, especially when you talk about their beauty. What, you expect them to act abnormal and give you stern and cold face instead? And if they give that face, will you stop complaining and believe that they’re serious with their choice? I’ll tell some ladies that I know about this, just in case they meet you.
But I think it doesn’t matter for them. They give stern face, people will call them sad & desperate women. They give you smiles, they’ll probably interpret it as a lust sign. Yes, it is very hard to be “Makhluk Tuhan yang Paling Sexy”. Every bit of our movement can be interpreted as a sexual invitation by men. Yes I agree, men basically will get attracted and tempted by us no matter what, even those women just show their toenails and did nothing more. And now we can see clearly, which one that is actually the source of sins. Not women, for sure.
these weirdos wear those robes too…
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-82095917705734983#docid=5688492591288248198
@ET:
What I catch from you is: you developed your allergic to women who wear hijab after you saw some of them who holding up pictures of Osama. You not referring it “ONLY” to some, you refer to ALL. Simply, you now have aversion to them, or a phobia, just like I have aversion to men with beards after I saw 9/11. I hope you don’t have beard, just like maybe you hoping me not using burqa. Otherwise, when accidentally we meet, there will be a session of rajam done by both of us.
Well, someone has to say something in the pool of jilbab-phobists like in this forum. Otherwise we never learn to be tolerant and really embrace multiculturalism.
Dr. Ziego, you need to stay longer in your psychology class. Your medication doesn’t work for me. Kurang manjur.
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I don’t see the problem of anyone wearing jilbab since much of their facial features are shown.
I might harbor suspicions if i see ‘fat ninjas’ though.
And stop crying over 9/11, more have died and billions in petro-dollars is enough compensation. Frankly that excuse has become somewhat of a cliche.