Gumi Blows Hot Over Trump threat; Says South Suffering From Inferiority Complex, Slave Mentality
Popular Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi said reactions to US President Donald Trump’s threat of military action in Nigeria indicated some prominent Southern Nigeria people suffer from inferiority complex and slave mentality towards the West.
Gumi stated this in a Facebook post on Thursday titled, “The paradox of some Christian ‘intellectuals’”.
He said he was disappointed that such persons backed Trump’s threat to Nigeria’s sovereignty.
Faulting the premise of such support, the vocal cleric noted that inter-communal hostilities, herders-farmers conflict, and indigenous versus settlers clashes could not be attributed to religion but to poverty, poor education, moral debauchery and poor governance.
Gumi said, “I used to think that because of the disparity between the North and South in Western education, which though is narrowing, the South would be more patriotic with no inferiority complex and slave mentality towards the West. Still, I was bitterly disappointed with some prominent recent reactions to Trump’s threats to our sovereignty.
“Inter-communal hostilities, herders-farmers conflict, indigenous vs. Settlers clashes are all results of poverty, poor education, moral debauchery and poor governance, not religion.
“However inviting a liar, a genocidal supporter, a racist, a supremacist, a colonist to interfere on the side of Christians specifically is unpatriotic, shameful and obnoxious.
“Can’t they see that the fight will take another dimension?
“Is it their theological construct that makes them so naive and hateful? Unfortunately, the common denominator of these unpatriotic individuals is Islamophobia.
“Nevertheless, most Christians are good Samaritans living peacefully with their Muslim countrymen.”
