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Yoursay: Up to airlines to decide on aircrew uniforms

YOURSAY | ‘Is this what PAS is most concerned about in the transport world - what people wear?’

Loke tells PAS MPs to ‘look away’ from female flight crew

David Dass: Yes, it’s so simple. Just look away.

I remember someone telling me years ago that the TV stations in the UK were bad because they showed shows on Sunday that were morally bad. I told him that I had not noticed that because on Sunday I only watch religious programmes.

We have the power of choice. We can choose to switch the TV off. We can look the other way.

Instead, we want to impose our views on everybody else. A PAS MP also asked Transport Minister Anthony Loke whether he “would encourage airlines to have Muslim flight attendants wear headscarves”.

The government should continue its present policy and give flight attendants the choice of whether to wear the headscarf or not.

Saya Anak Malaysia: Is this what PAS is most concerned about in the transport world - what people wear? Not what plans the government has to ensure better transport options; safer transport options; cleaner transport options; reduction of traffic deaths; the East Coast Rail Link?

If I were the minister, I would be very happy if they kept asking these type of non-questions for the next five years - but pity the people who voted for these sort of MPs.

StraightTalk: Dump all economic and social issues burning the country now. Don't bother about any of that. Just change the dress code of our airline female flight attendants and make the PAS lawmakers happy.

All the social and economic problems of the country will just disappear and Malaysia will be a great nation with the "most appropriately dressed female flight attendants" in the world, and our airline will become the number one airline on the planet.

I'm Watching You!: PAS, how about asking about the 1MDB scandal? Or how to help reduce the country's debt?

Can we expect something more intelligent for a change? Or is that asking too much?

Hope: Indeed, don't they have better things to discuss in Dewan Rakyat, that our transport minister needs to answer some question about airline uniforms? Grow up, please.

If this MP has a problem with Malaysia Airlines’ (MAS) uniform, go and complain to MAS. Why waste precious Dewan Rakyat time discussing it?

Anonymous_1386063526: Again? Yes, this is a waste of Parliament’s time.

If Parliament is one day controlled by the party, I think there would be nothing to debate except only things related to womenfolk.

Mano: PAS, the problem is not the uniform, but you.

If you can get aroused by someone's attire even with your so-called strong religious teachings, you are telling the world you cannot control yourself, and therefore you have to control what is outside by telling people what to wear.

PAS, first change yourself.

Anonymous: Where does the problem lie, with the girls or the person who cannot resist staring?

Stop treating women like second-class citizens. They have a right to live their lives without the likes of you trying to impose your beliefs upon them.

Clever Voter: It's true, what's inside a person is more important than outside. Even then, in a commercial environment, smart attire goes a long way.

PAS’ incessant complaints are not new, they live in a different world, a world that they are comfortable in. What they expressed gave us an impression of them.

They are allowed to speak, but let's just keep it that way. The airlines have hundreds of issues, this is not one of them.

Fairplayer: Let the airline and flight attendants choose their own attire. Decency is the yardstick, with or without headscarves.

Lovemalaysia2: I don’t know which airline is pictured above the article, but all I see is a traditional outfit. Have Malaysians forgotten their own cultural traditions?

Gerard Lourdesamy: What is the issue here? It is up to the airlines to decide on the aircrew uniforms to suit their corporate image and values.

To date, I have not found anything sexy about the uniforms of the MAS, Malindo and AirAsia flight attendants.

It is not for PAS to impose their values on the airlines. And it is up to Muslims working for these airlines to discuss with their management as to what they are comfortable wearing.

Hati Awasi: The world is full of temptation. Money, women, prestige, robbery, doing unholy things to gain fame…

It is for us to understand and manage our desires. Religion can serve us if you have a better dedication to it.

Enjoy the right way to gain and use money. If you can, enjoy beauty without depriving others of their happiness. This is not easy though for some people.

Annonymous: These people support and embrace child marriages, but oppose the decent airline uniforms? We don't know whether to laugh or to cry.

We cry for the people of Kelantan and Terengganu who will further regress and transform into a PAS hudud state and another Aceh, while the civilised world progresses.


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