…also published in Daily Trust
Over the past
few years, there has been a steady relaxation in the enforcement of some public
morality-related Islamic injunctions in the land of Haramain i.e. Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia where Makkah and Madinah, two of the only three holy cities in
Islam, otherwise known as Haramain, are located.
On the pretext
of providing means of public entertainment, events involving gross violations
of Islamic injunctions are now being allowed in the Kingdom. A whole government
department named General Entertainment Authority was established in 2016 to,
among other things, promote, sponsor and organize such events. Recently, an
American rapper, Nicki Minaj had been scheduled to perform at a concert in
Jeddah, a city only seventy kilometres away from Makkah, before she pulled out
giving excuses to the effect that the Kingdom is still not yet morally decadent
enough to deserve the “privilege” of hosting her.
