Mohammed Shami gets backing from family, villagers

Mohammed Shami has been in the news for all the wrong reasons in the recent times. His fans and cricket lovers would have loved to see his name in the news for his heroics on the field. However, in an unlikely turn of events, Shami has found himself being labelled and condemned as ‘UnIslamic’. Things started with the Indian quick posting a picture with his wife on the social media. The picture went viral on the social media and news sites not for the beauty of it but for unwanted reasons.

Many people posted hate comments on the picture on social media platform Facebook. The key concern of the group of people abusing Shami was the way his wife was dressed up. Yesterday the pacer took to social media site Twitter to hit back at all his haters. In a couple of tweets, Shami managed to shut the mouths of all those narrow-minded people who came with disgusting comments on his wife.

Soon, the Islamic clerics hit back at Mohammad Shami citing that whatever he did was not in the best of interests of the Islamic laws. In a recent turn of events, the man who matters, Shami’s father spoke about the matter. He defended his son and said that entire scene was an effort to harass and defame the Indian cricketer.

“Being a Muslim, we are followers of Islam and believe that the controversy is unnecessary. People should come forward to support my son. He has been representing over 20 crore Muslims of the country by playing for India and everyone should be proud of him,” quoted Tauseef Ahmad, father of Mohammed Shami.

In a conversation with ANI news, his father stressed on the same fact.

This is a well planned strategy to harass him. Appeal to all Indians to continue to support him: #MohammedShami's father Touseef pic.twitter.com/MtScsaUZj7

— ANI (@ANI_news) December 27, 2016

His uncle Akhtab also spoke in favor of his nephew. “We believe everyone has the right to live their lives in their own way,” he quoted.

Not just his family members, Shami found support from his villagers as well. The residents of his village Sahaspur Alinagar were seen speaking in favor of the pacer.

As per quotes in Hindustan Times, this was pretty much evident. “We have seen the photos and there was nothing objectionable. People are trying to defame them for no reason,” said a graduate girl Saima Khatoom from the village.

Another college student, Asifa Aslam, quoted, “Being a celebrity, they move in high-profile parties and wearing such dresses is quite common there. We should not interfere in their personal life.”