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Malaysia: Strict Dress Code

Categories: East Asia, Malaysia, Governance, Religion, Women & Gender

The Swanker blogs about imposition of strict islamic dress code on non-Muslims [1] in Malaysian city of Kota Baru. “But I strongly doubt whether such laws would be acceptable in the rest of the country. And developments like these can only serve to polarise Malaysia's Muslims – between those that believe Islam should regulate all of society, from the Government down – and those that believe that practice of their religion should remain in essence a private matter”