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Following are excerpts from a TV report on a Hamas ban of immodest mannequins. The report aired on Al-Jadid/New TV on July 30, 2010:
Reporter: After Hamas forced female lawyers in the courthouse and female school students to wear traditional Islamic clothing in the Gaza Strip, the police there forbade shop owners from displaying lingerie in the windows. The Hamas police demanded that the shop owners remove the mannequins and immodest posters displaying lingerie.
Shop owner: They told us we were not allowed to display underwear or posters. As a lingerie shop, we must show these things in order to sell. If we don't display them, we won't sell. We might as well sit at home.
Second shop owner: Of course we display them. It doesn't hurt anybody. They interfere in such affairs when things are bad and difficult. What can I say? There's no work at this time. It's summer. It's now July, and soon it will be august. Summer is almost over. It's a mistake.
Hamas military officer: It's an instruction to all shop owners to completely forbid the displaying of immodest clothing, to completely forbid the displaying of immodest clothing, or to display naked or half-naked mannequins outside the shop. This is out of respect for our young men and women, and out of respect for the accepted Palestinian customs and traditions.
Reporter: Hamas has already forbidden women from smoking hookahs in public places, or from holding musical shows.
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