Zakir Naik is renowned the world over, and revered by Muslims, for confronting Christianity, debating Christian apologists, and making numerous converts to Islam. He is respected by Muslims all over the world for his encyclopedic knowledge of Islam. Yet now his aide has been arrested for recruiting for the Islamic State. How could this misunderstanding of Islam have made its way even into the offices of a man who has dedicated his life to understanding Islam properly and communicating it effectively? No Western authorities who insist that Islam is a religion of peace that has nothing to do with terrorism are likely to ponder the implications of that question. But they should.
“Mumbai: Zakir Naik’s ‘aide’ arrested for trying to lure Kerala youth to join Isis,” by Asmita Sarkar, International Business Times, July 22, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The Maharashtra anti-terrorism squad (ATS) and Kerala police arrested on Wednesday an alleged aide of Islamic preacher Zakir Naik for recruiting youth from Kerala for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis), reports said on Friday.
If the accused Arshid Qureshi’s membership to Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) is confirmed, it would be the first arrest of a member of Naik’s organisation. Naik and his organisation IRF has been under the watch of security and intelligence authorities since terrorists who killed 20 people at a cafe in Dhaka on July 1 said that they were inspired by him….
Ebin Jacob, the brother of one of the missing women, Merin aka Mariam, had accused her husband, Bestin Vincent aka Yahia, and Qureshi for attempting to convert him to Islam and force him to join Isis. Jacob had gone to Mumbai with Bestin to meet Qureshi.
The police charged Qureshi and Vincent with Section 13 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) after Jacob’s statement.
As per the statement, Qureshi insisted that Ebin should embrace Islam and join IS. It was Bestin who compelled Ebin to come to Mumbai and meet Qureshi,” Ernakulam ACP KV Vijayan, the investigating officer, had said.
However, Jacob returned from Mumbai as he was not convinced with Qureshi’s arguments about Islam being the superior religion.
At least 21 people from Kerala who went missing earlier this month are believed to have joined the Isis. Apart from Merin, another girl, Nimisha, who was a Hindu, was reportedly forcibly converted to Islam.

Angemon says
Took their sweet time, didn’t they?
Georg says
Another nice one, Naik. Your days are numbered.
Baconator says
After this Zakir Naik was allowed to lecture scot-free throughout India, and his evil sermons broadcast on TV channels? Wow, Merkel must meet her Hindu politician friends!
Walter Sieruk says
Related the the topic of the Islamic “state.” Not too far back on the news one of the the most unbelievably stupid questions in the Twenty-First century asked my by a news reporter the West. Was the question posed by Western newsman was to a person who was trapped in a town in Iraq that which had been taken by the use of brute force. The reporter ask that person an idiot question with an armed ISIS thug standing right net to him. The question was “How do you like living in this town under the rule of the The Islamic state ? ” Of course,that man said he liked the Islamic”state” rule. What else was he going to say ? To illustrate the obvious , this is just like if a Western news reporter in North Korea was to ask a person who was trapped and forced to exist under the brutal tyrannical Communist dictator , Kim Joug- Un, and his communists party members in in power in this Marxist tyranny. Being asked with a Communist state police officer standing right next to him “How to you like living under the rule of president Kim Jong -Un ?” Of course, the answer would be that he liked rule of president Kim Jong- Un That person would have to be an honest fool to answer any other way. In conclusion , not only that question ash be that reporter extremely stupid the this also shows that what was printed in POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACK by Benjamin Franklin was true. The true statement is “Those who are feared are also hated.”
mortimer says
There can be no doubt that Dr. Naik approved.
The supremacism and viciousness of Islam are becoming more and more apparent to the professionally gullible Western media.
biff says
How much more Islamic Peace can the world handle?
License the Koran like a Machine Gun.
Gun license sir? Type of Gun? Koran.
People DIE when Muslims “misread” the Koran.
If “self radicalizatin” is the issue, then people should never study the Koran without Government “self radicalization expert” next to them.
Enough Muslim crimes against humanity.
Dum Spiro says
Try not to laugh as you watch how Nabeel Qureshi critiques Zadir Naik:
This other related video has in its introductory section some useful Qu’ran quotes:
Maybe you’ll even (Google) search these terms (zakir naik david wood youtube) on your own for more…
— Spero
Bella -Kaffur and Proud says
When will everyone admit it’s a global jihad, this guy is just one teeny litter operative.
No Fear says
Watching Zakir Naik videos makes me nauseous.
Andrew Meir says
he knows something for sure and he knows the Koran, he speaks fast, which is his way of confusing the listener. He overwhelm the listener with supposedly facts, coming out of his mouth very fast.
However, slow down his videos and listen and slowly listen to what he says, He is talking mumbo jumbo and even lies big lies.
Sameer says
This man was given all freedom to roam around India by the corrupt political regime which was ruling in for the last ten years despite fake islamic preacher spreading a web of lies and falsehood among semi-literate and illiterate followers and non-muslims. He was virtually insulting other religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, christianity and Judaism brazenly and the corrupt political regime was supporting them as it was appeasing muslims for their votes (dhimmitude attitude). It is also alleged to have indoctrinated many Hindus and christians to convert to islam, afterwhich he was somehow coercing them to join ISIS. During all this, he was supposed to have received lot of money from suspicious sources from abroad against the rules of receiving illegal funds from abroad. He is one the biggest frauds and a pathological liar who would preach utter unscientific facts such as earth is made of human clotted blood and that is flat and sun rotates around the earth.
Hindu says
The earth and life in the earth are millions of years old. The jihadies belive in heavon and in doomsday. But as per science the end of earth will come only after millions of years. Then all have to wait millions of years to reach heavon. But what will happen to all religions including islam after some years,say aftersome thousand years?.they all vanish or could be evolutionised. So why this foolish beliefs.Believe in humanity and only enjoy the festivities in religions as we know that the religions are man made and we use them for our own self and there is nothing for the God in the religions.understand the truth all you jihadists.Then the world woud be in islam(peace)
Angemon says
Hindu posted:
“The jihadies belive in heavon and in doomsday. But as per science the end of earth will come only after millions of years. Then all have to wait millions of years to reach heavon.”
Tangentially relevant: