Thread by @TomUdenwa

Let us face it, the recent coordinated media campaign against Pantami to label him by all means a sympathiser of jihadists and terrorists are products of a grand population of Nigerians who are unschooled outside their learned religion and simply #islamophobia at play

Dr Pantami is an Islamic scholar. He serves as a Member of Shari’ah Board of Jaiz Bank. He was also a Shurah member and Deputy Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Shari’ah (SCS) in Nigeria

Dr Pantami is a Jumu’ah Chief Imam who has been leading the Jumu’ah prayer for over 20 years in Nigeria and the United Kingdom. He still preaches in the mosque and does Tafsir during Ramadan. He is your typical Muslim devout. His trousers are jumper, in line with the Sunnah

This is the picture of a Northern man who our brothers would describe as a konk muslim

The very fact that an influencer posted, without evidence that he was on a watchlist of terrorists because he spoke Hausa in a debate with the founder of Boko Haram, several years ago, tells us that he posted out of fear & far from reason. The user did not understand the Hausa

#Islamophobia is real. Lets not pretend it does not exist

Harmless comments by a muslim are given innuendoes and untrue interpretations

If there was no #Islamophobia, why didn’t those who were amplifying the resignation of Dr. Pantami take time to understand the video that was shared of him where he was in fact attacking the ideology of Boko Haram

Hardly ever do we see anyone here taking on the extremist views of El Zakzaki

But Dr Pantami seems to be an easy target because he is a successful Muslim academic and scholar?

We need to dig deep down into our biases

Pantami is not the problem here. His teachings today are more liberal than ever, why is there the obsession with his past and not his current message?

This is a smokescreen for #Islamophobia. We need to fix our biases and hate-tendencies