Fatwa on tomboys
Oct 24, 2008 Rantings
In today’s Page 3 of The Star, a Bernama article headlined Fatwa on tomboys:
The National Fatwa Council has ruled that tomboyism, where a girl behaves or dresses in a boyish manner, is forbidden in Islam.
Its chairman Datuk Dr Abdul Shukor Husin said the decision was prompted by recent developments as there had been cases of young women inclined to behave like men and indulging in homosexuality.
Sigh. Let’s not even go into the studies that have found that being a tomboy does not indicate a person’s sexual identity.
But when you think about how crime is high, and corruption is rife. And the amount of cases of murder, rape and molestation - surely there are more important things to focus on.
12.38pm Malaysian time (+8 GMT)
Tags: fatwa, homosexuality, tomboy
