Hitting out at the Barisan Nasional for turning it into a political issue, she said: “We (Muslim women) do not even shake hands with Muslim men. “After all these years of independence, Umno should have explained to its component parties about the way Muslims greet each other,” she said at a press conference here yesterday. “There is no problem (for us) when greeting women,” she said, in defence of a belief among many Muslims that skin contact with those considered non-muhrim (spouse or immediate family members) is forbidden.
Hitting out at the Barisan Nasional for turning it into a political issue, she said: “We (Muslim women) do not even shake hands with Muslim men.
“After all these years of independence, Umno should have explained to its component parties about the way Muslims greet each other,” she said at a press conference here yesterday.
“There is no problem (for us) when greeting women,” she said, in defence of a belief among many Muslims that skin contact with those considered non-muhrim (spouse or immediate family members) is forbidden.
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