Hypocrisy: All those condemning brutal flogging of Madrasa students, encourage participation in BBNaija -MURIC

Professor Ishaq Akintola, the current Director and Founder of the Muslim Rights Concern said Nigerians condemning the brutal flogging encourage their children to participate in the Big Brother Naija show. 

He, however, urged Nigerians Nigerians not to jump to conclusions over the viral video of some Madrasa students being brutally flogged by their instructors in Kwara State.

You will recall that a viral video captured the moment some students of the Madrasa brutally flogged by their instructors that caused outrage over the weekend with many Nigerians condemning the action while calling on the Kwara State Government to investigate it.

While lamenting in a statement released on MURIC‘s website, he urged the public to allow the state government to investigate the matter

“While we regard the punishment meted out to the students as too harsh, we maintain that the action of the school authorities should not be judged in isolation. The fact that the parents requested the school to discipline their children must not be ignored,” the statement reads in part.

“MURIC is also in possession of another video in which the students confessed that they engaged in shameful and unIslamic actions, namely; visiting a club, drinking alcohol, bathing themselves with alcohol, etc. These are horrible acts in which ordinary Muslims must not be involved.

“Arabic schools are the repository of morality and the vault of uprightness. They are the conscience of the Ummah. The offence committed by those students becomes more unacceptable when the actors are students of an Arabic school who are expected to be the epitome of morality and religiosity.”

“The abyss of moral decadence into which the Nigerian society has fallen is responsible for most of the woes facing us in this country today. Nigerians now indulge their children. Family values and norms have been thrown to the winds. Parents allow their children to dictate to them. Instead of parents condemning waywardness in their children and punishing them for it, they now condone and collaborate,” He added.