This is a joke, right?

Asia-Pacific News is reporting that a leading Malaysian cleric, one Abu Hassan al-Hafiz, is recommending that women wear chastity belts to defend themselves against sexual predators.

"The best way to avert sex perpetrators is to wear protection," Abu Hassan reportedly told his followers at the mosque where he preaches. "My intention is not to offend women but to safeguard them from sex maniacs. Besides, husbands could also feel more secure, if you know what I mean."

Hassan apparently tried to assure his followers that this wasn't some medieval practice he was trying to resurrect by saying Malaysian women had only begun wearing them in the 1960s.