Sure, it is the British media that is responsible for this:
Dr. Naik recommends the death penalty for homosexuals and for apostasy from the faith, which he likens to wartime treason. He calls for India to be ruled by the medieval tenets of Shariah law. He supports a ban on the construction of non-Muslim places of worship in Muslim lands and the Taliban’s bombing of the Bamiyan Buddhas. He says revealing clothes make Western women “more susceptible to rape.” Not surprisingly, Dr. Naik believes that Jews “control America” and are the “strongest in enmity to Muslims.”
This is a typical evasion of responsibility. Islamic supremacists never take responsibility for their actions. It is always someone else’s fault — and that goes for everything, including their very own words and deeds.
An update on this story. “Indian Islamic scholar to appeal against British ban,” from AFP, June 23:
MUMBAI — An Indian Islamic preacher who was banned from entering Britain due to “unacceptable behaviour” has vowed to appeal against the decision, which he blamed on the British media.
Mumbai-based television preacher Zakir Naik had been due to give a series of lectures in London and northern England but Britain’s new Home Secretary Theresa May barred him last week.
“We have written to the UK home ministry, seeking them to revise their decision and revoke the exclusion order,” a spokesperson for Naik told AFP on Wednesday.
Naik will take up legal proceedings in London if the government does not reverse its ban, he said.
On Tuesday Naik issued a statement accusing May of acting on British press reports which he said portrayed him as “preacher of hate” and a “terror-backer.”
Naik has run into controversy for complimentary references to Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden, which he says were made in Singapore in 1996, prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks.
“It is not justified or sensible to use these quotes in the context of 9/11, when the atrocities had not taken place,” Naik said….