In a Facebook posting, the Perlis mufti, claimed this was an issue constantly raised to him by many Muslim female flight attendants.
Mohd Asri also related an incident where one flight attendant wept in front of him as she lamented that she was prohibited from wearing the tudung and was forced to serve alcohol.
MAS, he added, should not in fact serve alcohol, as many other airlines had also refrained from doing so.
“Let us push this proposal to a government that often incorporates Islam in many of its slogans.”
Earlier, Mohd Asri had said there were a segment of Malays who would throw a fit when informed that certain companies prohibited Muslim women from wearing the tudung or forced them to serve alcohol.
It was unfortunate, he said, that they often forgot how their very own national carrier, which represented the Malaysian image and identity did the same.
He also said this was not the first time such issues related to the attire of female flight attendants was raised, neither was their unhappiness at having to serve alcoholic beverages to passengers.
Some hardliners had claimed the shooting down of MAS flight MH17 over Ukraine in July 2014 was due to God’s wrath over these two very unIslamic factors.