Aisha Yusuf, an activist, recently spoke out to express her dismay over a video that went viral showing some Muslims scavenging for food scraps. She expressed her feelings about it on her Twitter account.
She commented that the Arewa community as a whole should be ashamed of themselves for the tragic circumstance. Aisha further remarked that Arewa’s Muslims were degrading the fundamental spirit of Islamic culture.
Aisha Yusuf made a reference to Prophet Muhammad’s teachings in her tweet, stating that this behavior was contrary to what he had taught his followers.
She also chastised the Mallams and Sheikhs, encouraging them to acknowledge and mend the issues within their society.
“The whole of Area should be ashamed of itself. The whole Muslims in Arewa are a disgrace to Islam.
This is not the population that Prophet Muhammad (SAW) asked us to give.
We all have failed Islam!
As for the Mallams and Sheikhs and what have you. Shame on you all!”
Her tweet was a response to one Mallam Jabir who had first taken to Twitter to talk about the video blaming northern politicians and Nigeria as a whole for the situation.
“Things like this made me hate Nigerian politicians more especially the northern politicians.
Look at the situation we’ve found ourselves today in this country.
These are children fighting for a plate of food left by someone in guru market, yobe state.
Things like this encourage me to join politics because we cannot continue to allow selfish and irresponsible people to keep on deceiving us.
We must act!!!”
