A Non-Governmental Organization – Muslim Media Watch Group of Nigeria has condemned cross-dressing, jailbreak and other societal ills.
In a news release issued on Friday, the group said any muslim man dressing like a woman or any muslim woman dressing a man are both agents of devil who would not receive blessings of Allah here and in the hereafter.
This according to the group, is contained in the Hadith of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW), as the Messenger of God mentioned cross-dressers i.e. men who dress like women including platers of hairs as well as women dressing like men as those Almighty Allah would not forgive.
In the statement signed by its National Coordinator, Alh. Ibrahim Abdullahi, the group maintained that cross-dressing is not part of civilisation or modernisation but an uncivilised and unislamic behaviour purnishable by Almighty Allah here and hereafter, adding that Islam has left nothing untouched.
The group referred to the three categories of citizens that Almighty Allah would purnish as cross-dressers, men and women who disobey their Parents and Husbands who refused to protect their wives from any abuse whatsoever.
The Media Group therefore commended the Grand Kadi of Kwara State, Justice Abdul-Lateef Kamaldeen for focusing these three evil deeds in his Friday Sermon on Friday and for warning Muslim parents and guardians as well as muslim youths to steer clear of all these evils.
Reacting to the jail-break of Wednesday in Suleja, near Abuja, the group condemned stakeholders in the maintenance of Nigeria’s Correctional Centres of constantly putting the lives of Nigerian citizens at risk over constant jail-breaks.
The group said: ”Often when jail-breaks occur, Federal Government and Top Officials of Correctional Centres would promise heavens and earth to be done so that such incidents would not repeat itself, but none would be done, till another one occur.”
The MMWG called for relocation of Ilorin Correctional Centre from Okekura to Mahdi in the outskirt of Ilorin and redesigning of the Medium Correctional Centre at Mahdi to Maximum Correctional Centre so as to occupy inmates that are to be moved from Okekura.
The group called for same in all parts of Nigeria as it is unfashionable to locate prisons inside the city centres, it concluded.