Aussie Lingerie Model Isn't A Muslim After All - Shock!

[A*O]

Burqa staved off rape: Michelle Leslie
Michelle Leslie wore a burqa during her stay in a Balinese prison on drugs charges to avoid being raped, she says.

In an interview with New Idea magazine, Leslie revealed she wore the traditional Muslim headdress to protect herself from men inside the prison she feared would rape her.

Leslie said she awoke in the Kerobokan prison one night to find a man sitting on the end of her mattress, laughing and singing: "Jiggyjig Missa Leslie. Bali holiday. Jiggyjig".

"I knew jiggyjig translated into having sex," Leslie told New Idea.

"He was saying Australian model and stroking my leg. I screamed: 'Get out of here!'."

Leslie said she was aware another woman was being taken from her cell regularly for sex, and realised her fate would be the same if she didn't act.

"I decided to dress in the Muslim burqa. I chose to wear Muslim dress for one reason and one reason only - to protect myself," she said.

"When I put on the burqa, people were more respectful and I'm sorry if anyone is offended by that. But over there, it's a case of whatever gets you through. I think anyone else would have done the same."

Leslie, 25, was convicted of drugs possession in Bali in August last year following the discovery of two ecstasy tablets in her handbag.

She was sentenced in November last year to three months' in jail, which covered the time she had spent in custody.

The model was criticised by some Muslim leaders for wearing a burqa during parts of her trial in the world's largest Muslim nation, and then opting for tight jeans and a singlet upon her release from jail.

Days after returning to Australia, Leslie said she chose to wear the burqa because it was a "sign of public privacy and modesty".

"I am a Muslim and I do understand the significance of wearing the burqa. I should have thought more carefully about wearing it in that situation and I apologise for any offence I have caused. It was an extreme situation," she said at the time.

Leslie now says she is not a practising Muslim but was inspired by her time living with a Muslim family.

"I'd been living with an Islamic family in Sydney for about three years before I was arrested in Bali," she said.

"I thought their beliefs were very beautiful and spiritual. So I decided I would adopt those beliefs over there.

"Am I the most religious person in the world? No, I am not.

"Am I a Muslim? I'm not a practising Muslim.

"Do I pray every day? No.

"Do I speak to Islamic leaders in the community? Yes.

"But it's important that people understand there are different levels of people's beliefs.

"Everybody I met in prison has turned to religion in their darkest moments. It gives you strength. It gives you hope. It gives you something to hold on to."

Leslie insisted her embrace of religion was not a ploy for sympathy because her judges were Christian and Hindu.

- AAP

Source: http://www.theage.com.au/news/nation...754901990.html

This Australian swimwear model/dumb tart was busted for carrying drugs in Bali (dur) and announced at her trial that she was a devout Muslim. Yeah right. It now seems that she wasn't telling the whole truth on that one (double dur). Anyway, it seemed to work.

[pacific breeze]

She's of the school that the end justifies the means...useless twat.

[ourmaninBusan]

^^ Other way around: the ends justify the means.

And her only other alternative was to offer a bribe to the lawyers
to make it go away.

[pacific breeze]

Thanks ourman.

[Eli]

Yaaargh I hate this girl, she's just a DUMB-ASS.
Last year when she got jailed overseas for drug-smuggling, she decided she was a Muslim and covered up because it was a "conflict of her religion".
Now it turns out she was lying? I would be so sad if they threw her back to the Bali Sharks. Hahaha.

She was all covered up and then the day she was released, they shot a video of her on the news, going to the mall and trying on skimpy outfits and laughing and what-not. Hmmm...

[yanna]

Erm... I don't know anything about the stupid tart in question who got to live her own version of Midnight Express. But would you have liked her to have been raped? I'd dress up as anything to prevent that.

[A*O]

What she wore isn't the issue. She was proclaiming to the world that she was a 'devout Muslim' when clearly she wasn't and isn't. She's not a Muslim at all and I think it's very disrespectful to cynically pretend you follow a certain religion in order to get sympathy. Everyone knew it was a complete lie anyway.

[Eli]

It was disrespectful to the uber mega-ness, in the end.

[moomies]

uber mega-ness

[Eli]

Oh no, I made that up!

[Grimmlok]

Fuck that, I'd dress up like Porky the clown if it meant i didnt get raped