“MAJORITY OF HINDUS IN INDIA LOVE ME”: ZAKIR NAIK

Wed 29 March 2023:

Zakir Abdul Karim Naik, the popular televangelist and Islamic preacher, who delivered his first lecture ‘The Quran is a Global Necessity’ in Oman, said the majority of Hindus in India love him. According to reports, he made the remark while speaking at the Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre on Thursday, which also marks the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

“The problem is that the majority of Hindus in India love me. They love me so much that it is creating a problem for the vote bank. In India, when I do talks and meetings, there are hundreds and thousands of people, 50 million to 100 million, especially in Bihar and Kishanganj, and out of these, 20 per cent are non-Muslims,” Zakir Naik said.

“When they talk to me they tell Zakir Bhai what we learned in the last two hours (in his lecture), we have not learnt after 40 hours of lectures on our religion,” the Islamic preacher added.

‘SIKH JUDGE FINDS NO OFFENSE IN MY SPEECHES’

At the same event, Zakir Naik recalled how a “Sikh judge”, Manmohan Singh, said he found nothing ‘objectionable’ in his speeches while the ED was trying to attach his properties in 2018. In January 2018, Justice Manmohan Singh, who headed the Appellate Tribunal for PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) in New Delhi, had restrained the ED from taking over Naik’s properties attached by the agency, and drew a parallel between Naik and self-styled spiritual leader Asaram Bapu.

“Allhamdulillah, when a judge in the Indian court said, (when they wanted to attach all my properties) the judge was a Sikh, Manmohan Singh. Fortunately, he had seen many of my talks. He said, to the lawyer of the government, you point out one statement of Dr. Zakir Naik, in context, in any lecture where he promotes terrorism, I will attach all his property,” Zakir Naik added. “I can name 10 Babas who have properties worth more than Re 10,000 crore each and they are facing criminal cases. Have you acted against even one of them? What have you done against Asaram Bapu?” Singh asked the counsel for the ED.

During his lecture in Muscat, Zakir Nair converted an Indian Hindu woman to Islam, read some lines from the Quran and asked her to repeat them, according to videos shared on social media.

Dr. Zakir Naik is now in the Sultanate of Oman😊 pic.twitter.com/z1iGqTJdzV

— 🕋 Learn Islam 🕋 (@Alhamdulilah_m) March 23, 2023

ZAKIR NAIK TO BE DEPORTED

India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Friday said that it will take all the necessary actions required to bring back radical Islamic preacher Zakir Naik and have him face justice in India.

Zakir Abdul Karim Naik, 57, currently residing in Malaysia, fled India in 2016 after his organisation Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) was banned and he was named in an FIR. In 2019, he was also banned from delivering public speeches in Malaysia. Besides India, his Peace TV network is also banned in Bangladesh, Canada, Sri Lanka and the UK.