In Reply to: A Muslim girl posted by Rex on Monday, 10. April 2006 at 16:10 Bali Time:
uses this Forum to deliberately cause arguments. That's what I regard as a troll. I never respond directly to a troll and only rarely indirectly. If you check the archives for March, you will find that Denok repeatedly criticised people for being concerned about possible paedophile approaches to their young sons. Some of the unpleasant comments were deleted and I had hoped that Admin had used good judgement and permanently banned this troublemaker.
I don't come onto this Forum to tell lies, nor to denigrate Muslims or anyone else. I have a Balinese friend who runs a little shop in the laneway running from near the Pantai Restaurant in Tuban up to Jl Kartika Plaza. One of her friends is a Muslim girl from Sumatra. I have seen this girl wearing a little top and a short denim skirt. I don't know whether she would dress this way in Sumatra, but she obviously doesn't see it as a problem in Bali.
When we were in Bali last October, two young Muslim girls [not tourists wearing scarfs on their heads] were right in front of us on the Matahari elevator. Very tight jeans, leaving little to the imagination. Only in Bali? Well, I thought so, but just recently I saw a young Muslim woman in our local Rockingham City shopping centre wearing a headscarf and very tight jeans.
I recall being in Casablanca in Morocco in 1954. This was then a French colony and some of the young Muslim women liked to be fashionably dressed like their French counterparts. It was customary for Muslim women there to wear the veil, but some of the veils were transparent and fancy and obviously worn for fashion rather than for modesty.
Many Muslim women resent some of the restrictions put on them in some countries and happily relax a little when they are in a more open minded country such as Bali. Same with some of the Muslim men who happily eat and drink things in Bali which are officially forbidden to them.