Kyrgyzstani President Almazbek Atambayev warned that radical dress leads to radicalization, while speaking about a state-sponsored effort to get women to stop wearing Muslim niqab veils.
He argued that women have been "wearing miniskirts since the 1950s, and they never thought about wearing an explosive belt."
"You can wear even tarpaulin boots on your head, but do not organise bombings. This is not religion. Let them wear even miniskirts but there must not be any blasts," he said, according to the BBC.