While dancing, is the body exposed in a "very shameful way" as this Muslim leader claims?

Question

The Linkage:
http://qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-670/i.html

The Snipage:
"A sense of humility is a part of the faith," says Mirza Masroor Ahmad as he calls upon women to wear headscarves. In order to reach the women more directly, he held an address in the women's tent. The men followed the sermon from their separate quarters from a large screen. The religious leader issued a strong warning against living an immoral lifestyle. Women are not to dance at weddings, for example.

"While dancing the body is exposed in a very shameful way," he asserted. "But if a woman understands her religious duties properly, she will also raise her children well."

Answer 1

In general - it depends on how you're dancing I guess.
But what this leader ment sounds like an extreme to me. I'm glad I don't live there. It seems to me that concentrating on the issues of how to dress is rather silly and superficial. Why make life more complicated than it needs to be - wearing all that stuff, keeping genders separate and so on.
Everything good is only good in moderation. Humans are the only species who have the concept of shame, and it isn't obsolete, but a normal part of being social. Declaring it shameful to dance, breathe and live is too much and it isn't going to make the society better.

Answer 2

I disagree with G's assertion that there's a mandate. or that mandates are a necessary part of religion. I'm twice divorced, and you can find me drinking, smoking, and dancing on as routine a basis as my time will allow, but I also see people who have no taste, and there are plenty of young women who seem to need to dress like hookers to go dancing. Religion is a way to keep social norms, and within any society there are going to be people who are more conservative or concious of good taste than others. I don't think we need denigrate others' ideas or ideals to hold our own.

Answer 3

thats what makes a religion a religion -- some guy makes a mandate and the followers follow. there are lots of sects of christianity that oppose dancing and declare it a sin. if you want to judge one judge all.