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MODEL Michelle Leslie wore a burqa during her stay in a Balinese prison on drugs charges to avoid being raped... Leslie said she awoke in the Kerobokan prison one night to find a man sitting on the end of her mattress, laughing and singing: "Jiggyjig Missa Leslie. Bali holiday. Jiggyjig". "I knew jiggyjig translated into having sex," Leslie told the magazine. "He was saying Australian model and stroking my leg. I screamed: `Get out of here!'." Leslie said she was aware another woman was being taken from her cell regularly for sex, and realised her fate would be the same...

MUSLIM leaders are outraged that model Michelle Leslie ditched her headscarf for singlet and champers as she flew to Singapore after being deported from Bali as a convicted drug user. They branded the bodypaint-to-burqa convert a fake. "We've got no time for these pseudo-Muslims," said Dr Ameer Ali, head of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils. "I'd like to tell her: you can't have it both ways." Dr Ali said it was obvious Leslie was using Islam for her own convenience. "If she wants to give up, she should publicly declare she is no longer Muslim." Leslie, 24, sipped champagne...

MICHELLE Leslie hit back last night at allegations that she has been faking her devotion to the Muslim faith. Ms Leslie has said she is a Muslim, despite walking out of the Bali prison where she spent three months wearing jeans and a tight singlet, abandoning the hijab she wore throughout her trial. "Religion and her beliefs are a very personal thing to her," Ms Leslie's spokesman, Sean Mulcahy, said last night. "If Michelle has offended anyone, she apologises." Islamic Friendship Association of Australia head Keysar Trad made the point that many Muslim women were models, or even belly dancers,...