Entertainer: Siti Noor Idayu was dressed in a white, sleeveless, top and long black pants when the officers from the religious department raided the entertainment outlet in Ipoh and detained her on Tuesday.
Posted on 07/07/2007 10:43:04 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
Singer held over dressing
Friday July 6, 2007
IPOH: The Perak Religious Department (JAIP) has ordered a singer to appear before the Syariah Court for “exposing her body” during a performance and “encouraging immoral activities”.
However, an indignant Siti Noor Idayu Abd Moin, 22, said she was wearing a sleeveless top and long pants when JAIP officers raided an entertainment outlet in Sunway City where she was performing on Tuesday.
"Our band had just finished and it was a little past midnight when they came in and rounded up all the Muslims.
“They asked to see our MyKad but one officer refused to touch the cards, referring to them as najis (unclean),” she said.
Siti Noor Idayu said the JAIP officers later detained seven people, including four employees of the outlet, and brought them to the department office.
“They put us in a tiny room and turned up the air-conditioner. I heard one officer tell the other: Bekulah dia orang (Let them freeze),” she said.
Siti Noor Idayu also said the male officers kept taking photographs of her, adding that she was made to stay overnight in that room until 10am.
She said the officer who finally came to record her statement at 8am, accused her of consuming alcohol and drugs, being involved in immoral activities, and that her MyKad was a fake.
“I took the breathalyser test twice and when the reading remained at zero, the officers looked frustrated.
“I heard one tell the other: Tapi dia tak minum lah (But she did not drink),” she said.
Siti Noor Idayu said an officer even told her that the money she earned working in the outlet was duit haram (illicit money) and that her parents, children and future generations would all be tainted for using such money.
“They finally wrote me a notice accusing me of dressing sexily and encouraging immorality just because I sang there,” she said.
The notice ordered her to appear before the Syariah Court here on Aug 6.
When contacted, JAIP director Datuk Jamry Sury said he was confident that his officers had not acted outside of their jurisdiction in issuing the notice.
“According to Islamic laws, a Muslim woman is not allowed to serve or entertain a man who is not her husband in a place where immoral activities usually take place,” he said.
Anyways...this is just another news report of bigotry and ignorance all brought to you by "The Religion of Peace."
Entertainer: Siti Noor Idayu was dressed in a white, sleeveless, top and long black pants when the officers from the religious department raided the entertainment outlet in Ipoh and detained her on Tuesday.
Update to this news story:
“Mufti: Don’t work in nightclubs”
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/7/7/nation/18240219&sec=nation
By CHRISTINA KOH and LEE YUK PENG
IPOH: Muslims should not work in nightclubs, not even as clerks or cashiers, Perak Mufti Datuk Seri Harussani Zakaria said yesterday.
He said this also applied to places where immoral activities were likely to take place, such as massage parlours and entertainment outlets.
“It is a sin for a Muslim, whether man or woman, to work in places that serve alcohol as they are considered to be abetting illicit activities,” he said yesterday.
He was commenting on the case of nightclub singer Siti Noor Idayu Abd Moin, 22, who was detained by the Perak Religious Department (JAIP) at a nightclub in Tambun here on Tuesday.
The department had ordered the singer to explain why she had “exposed her body” during a performance and “encouraged immoral activities” by working at that outlet.
However, Siti Noor Idayu said she was not even drinking and was wearing a white sleeveless top and long pants when JAIP officers raided the nightclub.
Harussani said even if Siti Noor Idayu had her parents’ consent to work at the entertainment outlet, it was still a sin.
“If your parents told you that you could drive on the highway at 120kph, is it still right to do so?
“A Muslim should stay with her family or look after her children rather than be in these places drinking,” he said.
JAIP director Datuk Jamry Sury clarified that Siti Noor Idayu was only asked to appear before the department on Aug 6 to explain herself, and not before a Syariah Court as claimed.
However, he declined to comment on whether the department would drop the charges against Siti Noor Idayu.
Meanwhile, Malaysian Artistes Association (Karyawan) deputy president Nasharuddin Elias said religious officers could advise Siti Noor Idayu instead of saying that she was earning illicit money.
“This is like piling pressure on her,” Nasharuddin, better known as Nash from the classic rock band Lefthanded, said.
He added that she was only earning money by using her talent.
Non-governmental organisation Sisters in Islam said in a statement that if Muslim men were offended by the sight of Siti Noor Idayu’s dress, then the Quran commanded them to lower their gaze and guard their own modesty.
“It is not the duty of the state to bring about a moral society to turn all incidence of ‘bad dressing’ into crimes against the state.
“It is obvious that many provisions of the Syariah Criminal Offences law are unenforceable as they intrude into issues that remain, for most Malaysians, in the realm of personal choice and fundamental liberty,” it said.
I guess there is an exception made for suicide bombers.
They can’t control themselves when they see her arms? Those must be some extremely attractive limbs she has going there that they cause male Muslims to lose control entirely. You have to wonder why they repeatedly tell the world that they are so totally unable to control their “urges” the way all other men on earth manage to do at the sight to female arms.
I wonder if any of these religious police ever yearn for something else to do.
It’s another reminder to some American feminists who complain about how they are treated so badly in our country that some parts of the world are really really difficult for women.
Malaysia
“encouraged immoral activities”
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Not moral activities, like chopping off someone’s head.
OH for good God’s sakes once again. The woman looks nice and is dressed perfectly proper. These people are sick.
Of course Patricia Ireland is fine with this. Her silence is deafening.
Pray for W and Our Troops
SARC, How insensitive of her. Doesn’t she know burquas are the only dress?SARC
“Burka Band - Burka Blue” by Afghan Singers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW9oYzMhiF4
Now this might be considered appropriate girl band attire!
How many times have we heard Indonesians say that they’re different, that there’s no Sharia in Indonesia?
Islam = Tyranny; it doesn’t matter where it is.
“Burka Band - Burka Blue” by Afghan Singers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW9oYzMhiF4
Now this might be considered appropriate girl band attire!
We could use more modesty in our culture, but not by these means obviously.
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