11 December 2011

‘No Islamic dress code for women’

.... The party is anxious to reassure powerful secularists in the Moroccan establishment, foreign investors, and the tourists who provide much of the country’s revenue, that it will not try to impose a strict Muslim moral code.

“We are proud that our point of reference is Islamist,” Benkirane, the PJD’s secretary general and prime minister designate, told a small group of reporters invited to a briefing.

“I will never be interested in the private life of people, Allah created mankind free. I will never ask if a woman is wearing a short skirt or a long skirt.”

“But there are things forbidden by the law. I think even in some European countries, people cannot be naked in public places,” he said. [Arab Times Kuwait] Read more [via National Secular Society]