Former
Bollywood
actress,
Zaira
Wasim
got
into
trouble
with
netizens
when
she
tweeted
a
verse
from
the
holy
Quran
which
mentioned
locust
attacks,
and
related
it
to
arrogance
of
people.
Zaira's
tweet
did
not
go
well
with
Twitterati
as
they
felt
she
was
being
insensitive
to
the
locust
attacks
in
various
parts
of
the
country,
and
that
she
wrongly
justified
the
crisis.
Zaira's
tweet
read,
"So
We
sent
upon
them
the
flood
and
locusts
and
lice
and
frogs
and
blood:
Signs
openly
self
explained:
but
they
were
steeped
in
arrogance-
a
people
given
to
sin
-Qur'an
7:133."
Netizens
reacted
in
anger
to
Zaira's
tweet.
One
Twitter
user
wrote,
"Well
She
just
used
a
Quran's
verse
to
Justify
Locusts
attack
on
a
country
which
offered
her
an
opportunity
in
cosmopolitan
city.
I
will
again
say,
The
Source
of
Hate
&
bigotry
is
something
else,
Education
and
Secularism
can
never
become
the
answer
to
radical
Islamism."
One
user
quoted
another
verse
from
the
Quran,
in
response
to
Zaira's
tweet:
"And
do
not
lose
hope
in
the
mercy
of
Allah;
indeed
none
lose
hope
in
the
mercy
of
Allah
except
the
most
ungrateful
people."-QURAN
12:87."
Zaira
has
now
deleted
her
Instagram
and
Twitter
accounts.
With
regard
to
work,
Zaira
was
last
seen
in
the
film
The
Sky
Is
Pink,
which
was
directed
by
Shonali
Bose,
and
starred
Priyanka
Chopra,
Farhan
Akhtar,
and
Rohit
Suresh
Saraf.
The
film
premiered
at
the
Toronto
International
Film
Festival
in
September
2019.
Zaira,
who
made
her
debut
with
the
biographical
sports
drama,
Dangal,
decided
to
quit
acting
after
The
Sky
Is
Pink.
In
a
lengthy
note
that
she
posted
on
her
social
media,
Zaira
shared
that
the
profession
'threatened'
her
relationship
with
her
religion.