Former
actress
Zaira
Wasim's
tweet
relating
the
locust
attacks
to
people's
arrogance,
by
quoting
a
religious
verse,
caused
netizens
to
react
with
anger.
The
furore
caused
Zaira
to
quit
social
media
for
a
couple
of
days.
However,
she
has
now
returned,
and
written
a
lengthy
note
on
how
her
tweet
was
taken
completely
out
of
context.
Zaira
responded
to
a
tweet
by
Canadian
journalist
Tarek
Fateh,
who
wrote,
"Indian
Muslim
actress
@ZairaWasimmm
mocks
her
own
countrymen
as
being
victims
of
Allah's
wrath.
This
is
how
she
explains
locust
swarm."
Zaira
started
off,
"While
I
too
agree
making
claims
like
this
is
wrath
or
a
curse'
when
the
world
is
going
through
so
much
is
a
really
insensitive
one,
I
wish
to
also
emphasise
that
making
a
claim
on
our
own
as
big
as
It's
a
wrath
or
curse
of
Allah
upon
any
land*
is
a
statement
one
is
making
on
behalf
of
Allah,
which
is
actually
a
religiously
irresponsible
one
and
a
sin
and
also
a
claim
I
never
made,
let
alone
mock
anyone."
She
added,
"My
tweet
was
completely
taken
out
of
context
and
blown
out
of
proportion
and
none
of
the
opinions,
whether
good
or
bad,
define
the
reality
of
my
intentions,
for
that
is
between
me
and
My
Rabb,
and
something
which
I'm
not
even
going
to
explain,
for
I'm
only
accountable
to
Allah
and
not
His
creation," she
added.
"The
world
is
going
through
a
tough
time
and
a
lot
of
hatred
and
bigotry
already,
the
least
we
could
do
is
not
add
more
to
it."
"P.S
I
am
not
an
actress
anymore,"
signed
off
Zaira.
“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”
Zaira
quit
her
career
as
an
actress
after
The
Sky
Is
Pink,
a
2019
film
directed
by
Shonali
Bose,
also
starring
Priyanka
Chopra,
Farhan
Akhtar
and
Rohit
Suresh
Saraf.