Islamic preacher tells women it’s sinful to show their ears and neck

A hardline Muslim preacher from Sydney's west has told hijab-wearing Muslim women it's sinful for them to reveal their ears or their neck in public.
Nassim Abdi, a fundamentalist Sunni, has castigated Muslim women for trying to copy the fashion styles of other Muslim women.
'The sister, why are you wearing it like this? Because other women are wearing it like this?,' he asked this week.
'You show only your face and your hands. Not your neck and your ears.'
He also said 'following a trend' was haram, the Arabic word for sinful.
His advice would appear to have fallen on deaf ears with high-profile Australian Muslim women who reveal their ears under their hijabs, including Susan Carland, the wife of The Project's Waleed Aly and axed ABC presenter Yassmin Abdel-Magied.
The opinionated fashion expert, from the hardline Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah Association, even had a word for Muslim women who liked to exercise outside.
'What we see with sisters walking down the street in skin-tight pants or in runners or in leggings or yoga pants,' Mr Abdi said.
His words on appropriate attire were delivered in Auburn, the same suburb in Sydney's west which has erected a curtain around the Ruth Everuss Aquatic Centre to shield Muslim women.
Men weren't spared either in his lecture, with Mr Abdi concerned about Muslim men choosing un-Islamic hairstyles.
'His haircut starts up here and it comes down this way. Or another haircut comes out here and he's left something down from here,' he said.
He was also upset with Muslim men wear tight shorts, which may be news to Muslim-convert New Zealand rugby union international Sonny Bill Williams.
'Brothers wearing short shorts ... and he's walking down the street showing this particular part of his body or that particular part of his body and the clothes are so tight, I don't know how he fits into his clothes,' he said.
'All because of what? Because of fashion.'