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Renowned Islamic apologist Zakir Naik investigated for possibly inspiring Bangladesh jihad terrorists

Jul 7, 2016 6:11 pm By Robert Spencer

Zakir Naik travels the world debating non-Muslims, and many converts to Islam have claimed that it was his stellar performances in these debates that convinced them of the truth of Islam. I myself would love to debate him, but in light of this story, it may have to be in a prison cell. It is interesting that a person so renowned worldwide for his comprehensive knowledge of Islam would even be accused of complicity in jihad terror strikes. But no Western authorities are likely to ponder the implications of that.

Zakir Naik

“Zakir Naik, Mumbai Cleric, Now Anchors Multiple Controversies,” NDTV, July 7, 2016:

New Delhi: Days after 20 hostages were killed in a cafe in Dhaka, the Maharashtra government has begun an inquiry against controversial preacher Dr Zakir Naik, who has been accused of inspiring, through his speeches, the weekend’s deadly attack in Bangladesh in which 20 hostages were hacked to death.

Bangladesh has said that Dr Naik, whose sermons on television and online draw large audiences across the world, inspired two of the seven young terrorists that opened fire on Friday night in a Dhaka cafe.

Security increased at Muslim preacher Zakir Naik’s Mumbai office.

Dr Naik, 50, has been on a religious trip to Mecca since Bangladesh was seared by the weekend’s attack. In videos made available through his office in Mumbai, where the police has now stationed constables, the evangelist says he is “not shocked” that the Dhaka terrorists had cited him on social media in recent posts. “More than 90 per cent Bangladeshis know me, more than 50 per cent are my fans,” he says in English, stressing, “Every fan of mine may not follow everything I say.” In the WhatsApp-ed video, he says, “I disagree that I inspired this act of killing innocent people”.

The televangelist, who pairs suits with a skullcap in his broadcasts, has been banned from entering the UK and Canada for incendiary remarks that have a defence of Osama Bin Laden. He has claimed that his speeches are often doctored to distort his comments.

Trained as a medical doctor, the radical preacher has won hefty awards in countries like Saudi Arabia where he has been honoured for his “contribution to Islam”. His supporters say he cannot be accused of urging terror strikes, though he forcefully defends his religion and ultra conservative tenets. His satellite TV channel, Peace TV, is banned in India, though it is aired by some cable TV operators. His Islamic Research Foundation, based in Mumbai, is described on its website as a charitable organization committed to ” the proper presentation, understanding and appreciation of Islam, as well as removing misconceptions about Islam – amongst less aware Muslims and non-Muslims.”…

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  1. killerjools says

    Jul 7, 2016 at 6:23 pm

    He sets people up to ask him questions so that he can appear knowledgeable by rattling off facts and and figures and Bible verses. He’s an even bigger quote miner than Hamza Tsortsis.

  2. billybob says

    Jul 7, 2016 at 6:42 pm

    “His Islamic Research Foundation, based in Mumbai, is described on its website as a charitable organization committed to … removing misconceptions about Islam – amongst less aware Muslims and non-Muslims.””

    Well that can be a positive thing. Like for example, among common misconceptions are:
    1.) Islam is a religion of peace
    2.) ISIS and other terror groups have perverted and misappropriated Islam
    3.) Most Muslims are peaceful and pretty much just like people of any faith
    4.) Muslims make an exemplary contributions to charities we can all benefit from when in need.
    5.) Muslims receive the most discrimination and attacks from racists than any other minority, and therefore are especially deserving of our sympathy.

    If Zakir Naik could clear up these misconceptions that would render a service to humanity, because we are not going to solve the problems created by Islam until people stop indulging in these misconceptions.

    • Concerned Indian says

      Jul 7, 2016 at 7:31 pm

      It’s the charitable organizations which contribute to conversions and terrorism,irrespective of the nations they are operating.
      Unfortunately,he will be out free since our laws,despite being aware of the vitriolic speeches, are weak no changes are brought about to stop such creatures.

  3. Angemon says

    Jul 7, 2016 at 7:15 pm

    Bangladesh has said that Dr Naik, whose sermons on television and online draw large audiences across the world, inspired two of the seven young terrorists that opened fire on Friday night in a Dhaka cafe.

    Only two?

    • Concerned Indian says

      Jul 7, 2016 at 7:33 pm

      Problem is he can always claim that he did not intend to inspire them.

  4. sidney penny says

    Jul 7, 2016 at 8:23 pm

    The Hindus in India put up with him.

    The police put up with him.

    The State and Federal governments put up with him.

    Zakir Naik preaching violence against non-Muslims and his followers love it!

    • Concerned Indian says

      Jul 7, 2016 at 8:46 pm

      The last paragraph is the most accurate.There are already many tweets from secular* those who married Hindu girls* telling the govt.that he is just a manipulator.

  5. rara says

    Jul 7, 2016 at 8:49 pm

    He says: “Every Muslim should be a terrorist”

    http://www.firstpost.com/india/every-muslim-should-be-a-terrorist-zakir-naik-and-six-of-his-most-provocative-statements-2879876.html

    He has 100 Millions of viewers!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakir_Naik

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 7, 2016 at 10:07 pm

      Yes–that first link says it all.

  6. Georg says

    Jul 7, 2016 at 9:16 pm

    This fruit cake wrote the forward to a Koran I have. He points out the Koran describes day turning to night gradually and thus implied the Earth is round long before later scholars did, and so everything Muhammed said/did is true/moral……………………………………..

  7. the renegade says

    Jul 7, 2016 at 10:47 pm

    What is the difference between a goat with glasses and a skull cap and Zakir Naik?

    Zakir Naik can memorise the quran and not understand a damn thing about how evil the book is and a goat can gobble up the quran without memorising it and tell you it tastes baaaaaaad and maaaaaaaaad…..

    Apart from the above, there is no difference, muslims sacrifice goats and non muslims to attain their jannat with 60 something male and female whores laying bare naked in rivers flowing with milk and honey….. which is what Zakir Naik is also after….

    Only thing left for muslims to do now is to start eating humans they sacrifice to become fully satanic….

    Vote for Trump and save human kind! Stop crooked Hillary! Hillary takes money from these terrorists and will make all of us into sacrificial goats without guaranteeing us Jannat….. shucks!

  8. mortimer says

    Jul 7, 2016 at 11:47 pm

    Naik now claims he’s being misquoted and that his videos were edited to make you look bad…sure!

    Zakir Naik’s Most Provocative Statements

    -‘Every Muslim should be a terrorist’
    -‘How can we allow this (building of churches or temples in an Islamic state) when their worship is wrong and when their worshipping is wrong”
    -‘LGBT community are patients suffering from a sinful mental problem. It’s because they watch pornographic movies. The TV channels are to be blamed.”
    -‘There are many verses in the Quran which say you can have sex with your wife and with whatever your right hand possesses.”
    -‘What Darwin said was only a theory. There is no book saying ‘The Fact of Evolution’. All the books say ‘Theory of Evolution’.
    -‘If bin Laden is fighting enemies of Islam, I am for him. If he is terrorising America, the biggest terrorist, I am with him. Every Muslim should be a terrorist. The thing is that if he is terrorising the terrorist, he is following Islam.’
    -‘Girls shouldn’t be sent to schools where they lose their virginity by the time they pass out. Schools should be shut down. They should not be allowed to wear gold ornaments.’

    • Carmel says

      Jul 8, 2016 at 4:06 am

      «,,,you can have se with your wife and with whatever your right hand possesses»

      « Right hand possesses » , did this has nothing to do with masturbation ?

      • rara says

        Jul 8, 2016 at 4:55 am

        unfortunately no, at the times Quran was written the warrior had the shield in the link hand and the sword in the right (if he was right-handed, and I think Mo hated left-handers anyway).

      • Concerned Indian says

        Jul 8, 2016 at 5:41 am

        It means whoever you take as slave.They did this in India.

        • Georg says

          Jul 8, 2016 at 6:10 am

          It also means we must render immobile the right hand of anyone using the verse to inform his behavior.

    • bernie says

      Jul 9, 2016 at 5:47 am

      Nair makes the same error that many fundamentalist Christians make when he says that evolution is “only a theory.” In science, theories have strong evidence supporting them and can, in principle, be tested.

      For example, one can speak of the germ theory of disease, or the theories of gravity or electricity, without doubting any of those things as facts. As a trained medical doctor, Nair should know better, but then, Dr. Ben Carson in the U.S. has made similar strange comments.

  9. Kurt says

    Jul 8, 2016 at 1:15 am

    Simple solution for India and every country he wants to preach in:

    Have his talks subject to a debate but not by audience members but by scholars in other religious and non-religious communities who are knowledgeable of the Quran and Hadiths.

  10. Agnishtoma says

    Jul 8, 2016 at 1:45 am

    He will not stand up to a real scholar like RS and PG. Appears to talk great things but in full of BS

    • Georg says

      Jul 8, 2016 at 6:28 am

      Absolutely. He’s one of those curious people who is intelligent yet impossibly preoccupied with being a moron. He uses intelligence to advance idiocy. What a bane. He’s probably a lot like his cunning idol. How fitting that with Zakir Naik we witness the phenomenon of an intelligent and charismatic charlatan fleece the masses of their decency in the name of hooey.

      • phoenix says

        Aug 15, 2016 at 1:02 am

        well said thank you! I am an exmuslim and an atheist, he is a disease like many in and out of islam fleecing the stupid

  11. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Jul 8, 2016 at 2:29 am

    Zakir Naik would be a better preacher if only he would speak English with clear enunciation and a natural cadence. (But possibly his staccato speaking rhythm is just what his subcontinental listeners are used to.) I miss about 10% of what he says in this talk about how to memorize the Quran:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tete_CXgO44
    For example, at 1:06, I hear: “Number one, is task number. Number two, the Quran says is soran kaputt.”

    • Carmel says

      Jul 8, 2016 at 4:09 am

      At the end of his answers , his body language ( turning hands ) say : « Now , get out of my way ,(you , stupid).

  12. No Fear says

    Jul 8, 2016 at 2:39 am

    I have viewed a few Zakir Naik videos on youtube. As I watch him speak I am overcome with a nausea that it beyond description.

    • Georg says

      Jul 8, 2016 at 6:49 am

      This is a symptom of your head being attached to your spinal chord.

  13. bostongal912 says

    Jul 8, 2016 at 3:46 am

    I’ve heard this guy speak in a debate and he’s a moron and so is his Prophet! I hope they put him away for a long time if his preaching of the so called peaceful Islam had anything to do with this terror attack! I think there’s a lot of this hateful crap going on in these mosques! If the Obama administration had any sense they would go undercover in some of these places and they would find out plenty including weapons! But we can’t offend our Muslim brothers and groups like CAIR now can we? Such a bunch of BS!

  14. The Bull says

    Jul 8, 2016 at 4:07 am

    • Georg says

      Jul 8, 2016 at 6:55 am

      That can’t be unsaid. Nice going, Naik.

  15. Carmel says

    Jul 8, 2016 at 4:16 am

    I would not go to a muslim doctor as long as is it known from me and surely not Zakir Naik . It is about impossible to be a devout fidel to a religion and a good doctor. Drom time to time , faith interfere with the job.

  16. guide inside says

    Jul 8, 2016 at 8:21 am

    O.T.–I believe shooters in big D. are contracters. Ask yourselves who sent them.

  17. Florida Jim says

    Jul 8, 2016 at 10:16 am

    Any muslim who preaches Sharia, Jihad, Taqiyya, Dhimmitude,beheading, raping boys, girls and enemies, not accepting America’s Constitution , culture and laws and planning for world takeover should be deported. Obama just issued a Presidential Decree saying several thousand muslims storming our borders need not be assimilated, which destroys the immigration ideal. America wants and needs legal immigrants. Democrats want and need fools who can’t think for themselves like the blacks in Chicago and St. Louis, illegals and terrorists everywhere in America to vote for Democrats not even being able to read or pronounce their name just a democrat, some democracy .

  18. Mark says

    Jul 10, 2016 at 6:10 pm

    Allmost laughted at the ‘his contributions to islam’ bit, all the man ever does is prove what a foul and depraved evil liar he is.

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