Who cares. She's free, good for her.

In Australia your lawyer will tell you to wear a suit when you appear before a court of law.

Leslie felt that adopting the dress of Islam made her more respectable and credible before a court; it is no different to putting on a suit and cutting your hair in Australia. There is no public backlash when Australians who wouldn't normally do so put on a suit when before a judge. Au contrare, the Canterbury Bulldogs players didn't even have to be before a judge to experience a backlash for *not* wearing a suit.

Sorry, can you only be a Muslim if you dress a certain way? I understood there were many ways to be a Muslim and plenty of women who wear western clothes are also good Muslims. Apart from a few risque modelling shots, which may have been taken prior to conversion, I haven't seen her wearing anything particularly revealing. I didn't realise female Muslim devoutness was judged entirely by appearances. Seems a little superficial and judgemental, if it is.
Also, if it had been my daughter in Michelle Leslie's position I'd have dressed her in whatever it took to get her out of there, and feel entirely justified in doing so. Particularly if judgements are made so much on external appearance.
I am sure there are strippers and prostitutes with more integrity, heart and soul than many stitched up buttoned up virgins, of whatever religion.
Indeed, while I deplore bigotry against Muslims, articles like this do their cause no favours. If the religion really is about what you wear and how you look, particularly for women, then it really does confirm some of those prejudices.
Surely there must be more to it than that?

islam is in serious need of reform if as soon as a girl chooses to, god forbid, wear a tank top, community leaders are going to jump up and down and slam our newspapers with fiery headlines about how they, once again, don't approve of our society. what exactly makes them a better or more worthy people than michelle?

as an australian, you are exposed to all kinds of influences, and you are encouraged to be open-minded and seek wisdom from many different philosophies. michelle has quite obviously had a strong influence in her life that was from an islamic background, and found that adopting some of the philosophies of islam brought a measure of peace and order to her thoughts.
please don't tell me you didn't notice that a great deal of the time michelle wore anything on her head, it also covered her face, during an emotional time in front of an unforgiving press.

if we judged you based on your religion, and publicly spoke out against you for it, i can't imagine the hailstorm of protests and the backlash we would see from a community that fiercly defends it's right to religious freedom.. so why do you have such a disregard for michelle's?

look at you salam, you've turned into pauline hanson! everything you say you're not.

Salam,

As an Australian Muslim I really think you are mixing apples and oranges here.

I can understand yours and Dr Ameer's comments if she confessed that she faked it. Whether she was pretending or not, if she still claims to be a Muslim then nobody is allowed to judge whether she was pretending or not. This is basic Quran.

Your article states that there is a 'faith gap' because she is not wearing the Hijab? Were did you get that from? Islam (& modesty) have nothing to do with dress codes.

Can you clarify?

For the sake of the non-muslim majority reading the article, see my comments on:

www.musliminsight.blogspot.com

So many complexities.
So many opinions.

Joy to the world! The Lord is come!
Go free Michelle! Go free!