{"id":2092,"date":"2008-06-24T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/06\/24\/lipstick-and-heels-ban-in-kota-bahru\/"},"modified":"2008-06-24T08:38:39","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T00:38:39","slug":"lipstick-and-heels-ban-in-kota-bahru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/06\/24\/lipstick-and-heels-ban-in-kota-bahru\/","title":{"rendered":"lipstick and heels ban in kota bahru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kota Bahru will soon become Kabul Bahru!<\/p>\n<p>While cosmetics and personal care are becoming a multbillion dollar industry, those folks at Kota Bahru Municipal Council are planning to cause a small dent in sales for areas in Kota Bahru. The council had <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/6\/24\/nation\/21636718&amp;sec=nation\">issued<\/a> a circular banning female muslim women working in business premises from wearing &#8220;<b><font color=\"#ff0000\">thick make-up, bright coloured lipstick and high-heeled shoes which made a tapping sound. Those who insisted on wearing high-heeled shoes should choose those with rubber soles<\/font><\/b>&#8220;. <\/p>\n<p>It was issued to &#8220;<b><font color=\"#ff0000\">prevent incidents like rape and illicit sex as well as to safeguard the morals and dignity of Muslim women in Kelantan<\/font><\/b>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>This is in addition to existing directive &#8211; &#8220;wearing of scarves (tudung?), which should cover the chest and not be of transparent material, blouses with long sleeves, which were long and loose, as well as socks&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>My questions: Where is the research or study that was undertaken in Kabul Bahru are that proves use of lipstick and tapping-sound-making high heels causes incidents like rape and illicit sex? Can the rakyat get a copy of the study?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kota Bahru will soon become Kabul Bahru! While cosmetics and personal care are becoming a multbillion dollar industry, those folks at Kota Bahru Municipal Council are planning to cause a small dent in sales for areas in Kota Bahru. The council had issued a circular banning female muslim women working in business premises from wearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-intolerance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}