- Islamic school board member Almir Colan is against schoolgirls wearing shorts
- He said women who imitated men would be cured by The Prophet Mohammed
- He is concerned about gay marriage leading to wider rollout of Safe Schools
A Muslim school leader says girls who wear shorts will be cursed by the Prophet Mohammed.
Almir Colan, a board member of Melbourne’s Garden College Islamic school, has railed against the Victorian government’s plan to allow girls to wear shorts in all state schools.
In a Facebook post, that has since been deleted, he used a religious justification to oppose this new policy, the Herald Sun reported.
Islamic school leader Almir Colan says the Prophet Mohammed curses girls who wear shorts
The Islamic Council of Victoria board member Almire Colan says women shouldn’t imitate men
‘It is part of nature of man and women to be different and to have unique characteristics, even in the way they dress,’ he said.
‘The Prophet cursed men who imitate women and women who imitate men.’
Mr Colan, an Islamic finance teacher who also sits on Islamic Council of Victoria board, is also endorsing a Muslim Political Action Committee campaign against gay marriage, as Australians take part in a $122 million postal vote survey.
Like some Christian and Muslim leaders, he is concerned about the legalisation of same-sex marriage leading to the Safe Schools gender theory program being rolled out in private schools.
The Muslim community leader is campaigning against plans to allow schoolgirls to wear shorts
His comments about girls wearing shorts comes only months after Sunni fundamentalist preachers from the Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah Association, in western Sydney, said it was sinful for girls to pluck their eyebrows or show their ears in public.
Some fundamentalist and conservative Muslim groups are campaigning against gay marriage as households return Australian Bureau of Statistics ballots on redefining marriage ahead of the November 7 deadline.