Malaysian Muslim women want AirAsia crew to cover up

In this case, the Muslims are not the first to demand stewardesses cover up. The picture above is of Ellen Simonetti allegedly fired from delta (madness) for sexy photos on her blog http://queenofsky.journalspace.com/.

I have seen similar complaints in the past but this was a convent excuse to post a picture of a sexy ex flight attendant and I took it.

I also wanted to show the Malaysian women that western women are still the most glamorous in the air and on land. You dress your flight attendants any way you like but American flight attendants have free will, try it some time.

I realize I will take flack for this but before I get hate mail from women for running that photo, I can only say this in my defense. Get your own blog and you can pick the posts.

9 November, 2007, By Sayed Salahuddin
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Influential Malaysian Muslim women demanded on Friday a budget airline to swap its flight attendants’ miniskirts for less revealing, more Islamic attire in keeping with the multi-faith country’s dominant religion.

Female delegates of the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), during a debate on Islam at the final day of its week-long annual meeting, zeroed in on AirAsia’s stewardesses, saying their skirts should go down to the ankles.

The 3.3-million-strong UMNO represents the country’s dominant ethnic Malays, who are by definition Muslim. UMNO is increasingly pushing an Islamic agenda to counter the opposition Parti Islam se-Malaysia (PAS) in the country’s Malay heartland.

“The uniform is too revealing. We don’t want to look at their thigh and knee,” said Zaleha Hussin, an elderly woman delegate from the northeastern state of Kelantan.

“Malaysia is an Islamic nation and we are ashamed of the AirAsia uniform,” she told the meeting.

Male delegates also supported the change of dress code. “It should be implemented by explaining that we are a Muslim country,” said Azman Ruslan, a lawyer.

AirAsia is one of Asia’s fastest-growing budget carriers and its crew is made up of various races, including Malay Muslims who form just over half of Malaysia’s 26 million people.

An AirAsia spokeswoman said the uniform did not compromise the staff’s national identity. “There’s nothing to comment about it. Wearing this uniform doesn’t make us less Malaysian,” she said by telephone.

Malaysia has been for long a tolerant Muslim society and has Hindu, Buddhism and Christian followers. Women constitute half the country’s population.

Malaysians are still grappling with divisive racial and religious issues. The Chinese and Indians form sizeable minorities and follow different cultures and religions.

(Additional reporting by Jalil Hamid; Editing by Miral Fahmy)

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