Thank you YB Hajah Zuraida for speaking up.
Press Statement by YB Hajah Zuraida Kamaruddin dated 29 April 2017
I refer to Malay Mail's news report dated 28 April 2017 regarding a 12-year-old girl being forced to quit a chess tournament held at Putrajaya over her "seductive" dress.
I am totally appalled and disgusted with the Tournament Director and Chief Arbiter of the National Scholastic Chess Championship 2017 for stopping a 12-year-old chess player in the middle of round two citing the student's dress as "seductive" and "a temptation from a certain angle, far, far away."
I urge the relevant authorities to remove these two incompetent and dirty minded adults from their current positions and never to let them near girls at all. In fact, there should be a court order to ensure that they keep a safe distance away from all girls. Their behaviour is a threat to children especially girls. These two have absolutely no shame and even dare to publicly declare that seeing legs over a knee-length skirt is a temptation. How disgraceful! If such men cannot control their urges, they belong behind a cage.
This incident is not an isolated case and if men keep on blaming girls and women for their own inability to remain unaroused, then there is even a greater need to keep a registry of all sexual offenders and potential sexual aggressors like these two.
Religion teaches us to keep a pure mind. If the mind is not pure, no matter how the women dresses, the men would still find reasons to get excited.
YB Hajah Zuraida Kamaruddin
Ketua Wanita Keadilan
Ahli Parlimen Ampang
This is how we must respond to perverted bigots, who have dirty minds.
Strong and Loud and clearly!
