Islamic human rights organisation, Muslim Rights Concern, on
Wednesday, backed the Kano State Hisbah Board’s decision to grill the parents
of the 44th Miss Nigeria, Shatu Garko, over their daughter’s ‘illegal’
participation in the beauty pageant.
MURIC Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, said no decent Muslim
lady would participate in any beauty pageant like the Miss Nigeria contest,
adding that the beauty pageant is not different from the television reality
show, Big Brother Naija.
The group said Muslims do not participate in any beauty
pageant, according to Quran Chapter 24, Verse 31; and Quran Chapter 33, Verse
59.
“These two verses emphatically insist that women should
cover themselves and dress up decently and neither should display their body
for the public. Being present in a beauty pageant even if she was in a hijab,
she had done the catwalked with thousands of men eating her up with their eyes.
It is not acceptable,” Akintola stressed.
Recall that the Commander General of the Kano Hisbah Board,
Harun Ibn-Sina, said that the Sharia Police would invite the parents of
18-year-old Garko for allowing her to participate in the Miss Nigeria pageant
on December 17, 2021 at the Landmark Centre in Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria.
Garko, who wore a hijab during the pageant, had won the
beauty pageant and took home the prize of N10m, one-year residency in a luxury
apartment, brand new car, and many brand ambassadorship opportunities.
However, the Hisbah boss said Garko’s participation is
illegal and unknown to Islam, adding that the parents of the teenagers would be
invited so that other ladies won’t model after Garko.
Speaking with our correspondent also on Wednesday, Akintola
said Muslims are not impressed with Garko’s action.
The Professor of Islamic Eschatology at the Lagos State
University said, “We are not quite impressed by the development because the
environment itself is un-Islamic – women parading their bodies and all of that.
Hers may be different but she is not supposed to mix with those kinds of
people. It is like going for BBNaija and using Hijab or dressing like a Muslim
but you participated in BBNaija where people make love before the camera and
millions of Nigerians are watching.
“In a beauty pageant, women also parade their bodies in
stages, they come in bikini and all of that. It is not an exercise a Muslim
lady should participate in, people who are decent, who have shame, who have
honour, who would not display their nudity, who would not expose their bums for
millions of naira should not participate in such pageants.”
On the proposed invitation of Garko’s parents by the Kano
Sharia police, Akintola said, “It is very good. Why do you think Nigeria is in
trouble and our youths uncontrollable? It is because that parental guidance and
values are missing at home. How did the parents allow her to go contest? Though
she may be 18-year-old, once you are still under your parents, you are under
your parents in Islam.”
The various Hisbah Boards in the north enforcing the Sharia
law have been accused of many highhandedness in the past including the
destruction of millions of bottles of different beer worth billions of naira,
thus, rendering hundreds of Southern traders hopeless and jobless in the north.
They claimed consumption of alcohol and all other intoxicants was forbidden in
Islam.
Hisbah has also been accused of blatantly violating the
basic rights of citizens in its mission to enforce criminal aspects of Sharia
law on residents of the North-West state.
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