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| July 4, 2012 | Jamaat-e-Islami Kashmir suggests dress code for female tourists in Kashmir | | Srinagar: Women coming to Jammu and Kashmir should not wear revealing clothes and should
be sensitive to the local ethos, local religious group Jamaat-e-Islami Kashmir
suggested here on Wednesday. Counsel for the group Zahid Ali said they would impose
restrictions on how foreign tourists dress at tourist spots. “We are not suggesting
any particular dress-code for the tourists. We are only saying that they should
take care of the local ethos and the traditions. We are not asking them to adopt
Islamic dress code,” he said. He said the group is demanding the Department of
Tourism not to encourage cultural aggression on the local traditions. Ali said
that Muslim women are also not allowed to wear scarves in western countries because
of their cultural impositions. “When we see that in the European countries, Muslim
women are not even allowed to wear scarves, so how do we allow women tourists
to expose in our country? Even if it is a Hindu or a Muslim, the locals do not
like it. It is in our tradition and we are not asking them to adopt Islamic dress
code,” he added. The suggestion on dress code could impact the tourist influx
in the state, where the separatists have already banned cinema halls.
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