Faizabad: Leading Islamic seminaries in the
country on Tuesday responded differently to the Fatwa issued by a
North America-based Muslim body against full-body scanning for
security checks with some endorsing the ruling and others
opposing it.
While the prominent Islamic seminaries Darul Uloom
Deoband and the Ulema Council supported the Fatwa saying such
security checks were against the Islamic law and human
dignity, the Islamic Centre of India saw nothing wrong in
full-body scanning if it was necessary for security reasons.
The Fiqah Council of North America recently issued a
Fatwa against the use of full-body scanner for security checks
before granting access to people to high security areas.
Speaking in favour of the FCNA ruling against full-body
scanning, Vice-Chancellor of Darul Uloom Deoband Maulana Abdul
Khalik Madrasi said, "The Fatwa is justified as such screening
of human bodies both for men and women was in gross violation
of the Sharia (Islamic law)."
However, Maulana Khalid Rasheed Firangi Mahli, the
general secratery of Islamic Centre of India and member of All
India Muslim Personal Law Board took a different view of the
issue.
"If the full body scanning is necessary for security of
any place or person, then it is OK, there is nothing wrong in
full body scanning," Maulana Khalid Rasheed said.
PTI
