Having threatened to attack journalists, Hifazat-e-Islam has now questioned the usual outfit of women in the media.
Speaking at a religious gathering at Hathazari Madrasa in Chittagong on Friday, the organisation’s Secretary General Junaid Babu Nagari said, “Women are presented in inappropriate dresses in the media.”
He said a different form of aggression was being carried out against the ‘Islam-loving pious people across the country’ through the present ‘cultural aggression’.
“Women are being regularly presented in inappropriate attires in different fields from news casting to programme presentation in the electronic media and in dramas and movies,” he observed.
“Efforts are on to make them socially acceptable,” he further noted.
Last year, chief of the radical Islamist organisation Shah Ahmed Shafi in a religious gathering had reportedly compared the women with tamarind, triggering widespread controversies.
Nagari told the Friday gathering that the ‘enemies of Islam at home and abroad’ were conspiring to destroy the religious spirit of Muslims by exploiting their ‘weakness and lack of unity’.
“When we see how women and school-going children dress today on the streets, markets and public places, we see the reflection of these fears,” he said.
“They want to make the youth of our nation faithless with this cultural aggression, shamelessness, nudity and the free mixing of men and women,” he added.
On Tuesday, Hifazat leaders at a press conference at Chittagong Metropolitan Union of Journalists’ office threatened to attack journalists.
Its Organising Secretary Azizul Haq Islambabdi had said at the press meet: “Several media outlets including Ekattor TV have vented hatred against us by airing misguiding documentaries on the first anniversary of Hifazat-e-Islam movement.”
“It’s creating misunderstanding between we and journalists… That’s why attacks can be launched on journalists from Hifazat-e-Islam processions,” he added.
Source: Bd news24