Wrong For Muslim Girls To Catwalk, MURIC Backs Sanctions On Miss Nigeria

Islamic group, the Muslim Right Concern, MURIC, has given its support to the Kano State Hisbah Police’s decision to question the parents of the 2021 Miss Nigeria, Shatu Garko, over her “illegal” participation in the beauty pageant.

Prof Ishaq Akintola, MURIC Director, made the group’s stance known in a chat with Punch, comparing the Miss Nigeria beauty pageant to the much-criticized Big Brother Naija reality show. Saying no decent Muslim lady will participate in such.

According to MURIC, Muslims do not participate in pageants 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 catwalk with thousands of men eating her up with their eyes,” Akintola lamented.

Throwing his support to the Kano Hisbah Board on their plan to invite Miss Shatu Garko’s parents, he said the lack of parental guidance at home is one reason Nigeria is in trouble.

The MURIC spokesman 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 go to contest?

“Though she may be 18 years old, once you are still under your parents, you are under your parents in Islam.

Recall that the Commander of the Hisbah Board in Kano, in a chat with the BBC Pidgin on Wednesday, criticized the participation of Shatu Garko in the 2021 Miss Nigeria pageant, on the basis of being a Muslim from Kano, which is a Sharia state.

He further revealed the board was going to invite the parents to warn them on her illegal participation, and to prevent other Muslim girls from following Garko’s footsteps.

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