That Peter Obi Criticised President Tinubu For Not Wearing Black Mourning Clothes To Benue Shows He Knows Nothing About Islam
Something is seriously wrong with this social media content creator called Peter Obi! Is the man okay at all? People died in Benue, and both the Federal and State Governments are trying to find solutions, and this Agbotikuyo is complaining about the type of clothes the President wore to Benue? Really?
Imagine him saying “The President arrived not in mourning cloth but in celebratory agbada attire, like it was an occasion for joy.”
Is Peter Obi aware that President Tinubu is a Muslim and that in Islam, it is not Sunnah to wear black when anyone dies?
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That is why I and others have repeatedly said Peter Obi lacks the broad-mindedness to be Nigeria’s President. The fellow is too selfish to think beyond his narrow political, cultural, and religious beliefs.
He wants everyone in Nigeria to conform to his own low cultural values, irrespective of their own religious background.
That was why, in 2022, his campaign donated so-called prayer mats to mosques with his images on them.
Mr. Obi does not attempt to understand Islam, even when Islam is the dominant religion in Northern Nigeria and parts of the Southwest.
And even in Christianity, there is no requirement to wear black to funerals. There is no such doctrine or culture in Scripture.
The wearing of Black is purely a European cultural practice that has been blindly adopted by people whose cultures are not well defined to the extent that they need another culture to plug gaps in their own ways of life.
For Peter Obi’s education, it is haram in Islam to wear black to events such as burials, funerals, and memorials for the dead. The Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasalaam) is that the dead are to be buried in white clothes.
A hadith of the prophet (SAW) and narrated by Ibn Abbas states, “Wear white clothes, for they are the best of your clothes, and shroud your dead in them.”
It is sad that Mr. Obi is so wrapped up in his narrow self-interest that he makes zero attempt to understand other cultures that have existed in the geographical location now known as Nigeria for a thousand years.
Mr. Obi’s insensitivity to Nigeria’s cultural diversity, along with his tribalistic focus on only his Igbo kith and kin, makes him unsuited for the highest office in the land.
My counsel to Peter Obi is this: If you like wearing Black mourning clothes everywhere, due to your love for bad news and negativity, do not expect others to be like you.
You are a Roman Catholic, which is a minority faith in Nigeria. While Nigeria has freedom of religion, if you, Peter Obi, expect the rest of us to behave like you and observe your cultural and religious practices, then you had better focus on becoming the Governor of Anambra, where you had previously spent two terms of eight years causing religious division between Catholics and Anglicans.
Finally, I urge the Muslim Ummah to remember that this is a man who was caught on a leaked audio threatening “religious war” against them. And this latest criticism shows he is dead serious about that threat!
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