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Zakir Naik

Zakir Naik is an Indian Islamic preacher, thinker and a public speaker and his works are mostly on the comparative theology around the world. He is the founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) and also the founder of Peace TV channel, a comparative religion channel that he claims to have 100 million viewers. Unlike most of the Islamic preachers, he gives his speeches in English rather than Urdu or Arabic and wears a suit and tie rather than traditional garb. His preaching is currently banned in India, Canada, United Kingdom and Bangladesh. He is said to have more critics within the Islamic religion than outside it. Born on 18th October 1965 in Mumbai, Zakir Naik graduated from Kishinchand Chellaram College and later completed his MBBS from the Topiwala National Medical College and BYL Nair Charitable Hospital. In 1987, he met a South African Islamic preacher Ahmed Deedat and he got influenced by his works. In 1991, he started his Dawah work which means to preach Islam with an intention of converting the non believers and to do so he founded the Islamic Research Foundation. His wife Farhat Naik also works with him and she handles the women section in the IRF. Naik also founded the Islamic International School as well as the United Islamic aid that provides scholarship to poor and destitute Muslim youth. He founded and is the owner of the religious television channel called Peace TV and through the channel he claims to bring clarity about Islam to both Muslims and Non-Muslims. His channel uplinks from Dubai and claims to have 100 million viewers across the globe. His IRF website describes that the channel is to promote truth, justice, morality, harmony and wisdom for the whole of humankind.

Apart from Peace TV, Naik also use Social Media as a tool for his Dawah work and he has over 14 million followers on Facebook. He also launched his mobile called as Peace Mobile which is an Islamic smartphone that comes with 50 pre-installed Islamic applications and about 80 hours of Naiks lectures and discourses. Zakir Naik says that his goal is to concentrate on the educated Musli youth who have become apologetic about their own religion and have started to feel that the religion is outdated. Zakir Naik conducts his lectures and debates worldwide and he has been taking lectures in different countries like Malaysia, Canada, Australia, Wales etc.Naik has been at the center of controversies for his lectures and speeches. In 2004, in a religious meet held at the University of Melbourne, Naik said that donning more revealing western dress makes a woman more susceptible to rape. He is a well known critic of Darwinism and Theory of Evolution and states that its only a hypothesis and unproven conjecture at best. He was in a major controversy after he said that he would not criticize Osama Bin Laden as he has not met him personally and doesnt know how he was personally. In a YouTube video, his speech shows him saying that If Bin Laden is fighting the enemies of Islam, I am for him..if he is terrorizing the biggest terrorist America, I am with him. He also has supporting Jihadism and he says Every Muslim should be a terrorist. The thing is that if he is terrorizing the terrorist, he is following Islam.

Naik has spoken against Hindu and Christian religion and has been against the construction of temples and churches in an Islamic country, as the religion is wrong. Naik believes that girls shouldnt be sent to school because they tend to lose virginity and they should also not wear golden jewelery. He also holds that Muslim bear the right to have sex with their female slaves. In one of his speeches broadcasted in his Peace TV channel, he spoke about the 9/11 attacks and said that the Twin Tower attacks was done by George Bush himself and it is a blatant, open secret. Naik due to his comments and controversies has been banned from many countries. In 2010, he was scheduled to give discourses in London and Sheffield, but after considering his nature of preaching, the UK Home Secretary revoked his visa and banned him from entering the country. Canada also has banned him from entering the country. Naik was scheduled to talk in Malaysia in April 2016, but after considering that his speeches will hurt the religious sentiments of Christians and Hindus, they asked the organizers to cancel the event. In July 2016, five Bangladeshi terrorist attacked the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka killing 22 people. Later, two of the five terrorist were reported to have been inspired by Zakir Naik and have posted a quote by Naik on Facebook prior to the attack. The Indian government in 2012 banned the channel and after the Bangladesh attack, it is banned in Bangladesh too. There were also reports of Intelligence Agencies probing the alleged links between terror group Jamaat-ud-dawa and Naiks IRF. Naik has recently declared that he is a Non Resident Indian NRI.

ED attaches properties worth Rs 16.40 crore of controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik
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Mumbai: NIA Court Orders Attachment of Five Properties of Zakir Naik
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Mumbai: NIA Court Orders Attachment of Five Properties of Zakir Naik
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Zakir Naik Will Not be Deported, says Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad as India Makes Extradition Request
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Zakir Naik Denies Reports of His 'Extradited to India', Ways He'll Return When Govt is 'Just And Fair'
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Zakir Naik Extradition: Waiting For Malaysia's Response, Says MEA
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New Delhi, June 7: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday said that India is waiting for...
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VHP Leader Sadhvi Sataswathy Booked For Hate Speech in Kasaragod Public Meeting
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India Seeks Extradition of Zakir Naik From Malaysia, Files Chargesheet Against Him
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NIA books 9 for forcible conversion of woman, bid to sell her off to ISIS
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UP Education Department Issues Show Cause Notice to Aligarh School For Portraying Zakir Naik as 'Important Islamic Personality'
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Relief For Zakir Naik as Tribunal Restrains ED From Attaching His Property
India.com News Desk | January 9, 2018 7:43 PM IST
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Relief For Zakir Naik as Tribunal Restrains ED From Attaching His Property
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NIA to Seek Zakir Naik’s Provisional Arrest in Malaysia, File Fresh Plea For Interpol Red Corner Notice
India.com News Desk | December 25, 2017 8:25 AM IST
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NIA to Seek Zakir Naik’s Provisional Arrest in Malaysia, File Fresh Plea For Interpol Red Corner Notice
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Interpol Refuses to Issue Red Corner Notice Against Mumbai-Based Controversial Preacher Dr Zakir Naik
India.com News Desk | December 16, 2017 11:48 PM IST
Mumbai, December 16: In a major setback to Indian effort to arrest controversial televangelist Dr Za...
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Trouble Mounts For Zakir Naik; India to Make Formal Request to Malaysia For Preacher's Extradition, Says MEA
India.com News Desk | November 3, 2017 5:55 PM IST
New Delhi, Nov 3: The government will soon make a formal request to Malaysia for Zakir Naik's extrad...
Trouble Mounts For Zakir Naik; India to Make Formal Request to Malaysia For Preacher's Extradition, Says MEA
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Zakir Naik Popular in Malaysia as Nation Heads Towards Politicised Islam: Report
India.com News Desk | November 2, 2017 5:53 PM IST
New Delhi, Nov 2: Hardline Islamic preacher Zakir Naik is a popular figure in Malaysia and according...
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Will explore all legal options to bring Naik back to India: NIA IG
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New Delhi [India] October 26 (ANI): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday said it will...
Will explore all legal options to bring Naik back to India: NIA IG
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Zakir Naik Charged With Hate Speech, Declared Absconder in NIA Chargesheet
India.com News Desk | October 26, 2017 4:16 PM IST
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Zakir Naik Charged With Hate Speech, Declared Absconder in NIA Chargesheet
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Dawood Ibrahim Funded Zakir Naik's NGO Through Hawala, Reveals Brother Iqbal Kaskar
India.com News Desk | September 26, 2017 12:33 PM IST
New Delhi, September 26: Iqbal Kaskar, brother of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, who was arrested by...
Dawood Ibrahim Funded Zakir Naik's NGO Through Hawala, Reveals Brother Iqbal Kaskar
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NIA Begins Process to Attach Properties of Proclaimed Offender Zakir Naik
Shubhang Chauhan | July 28, 2017 10:03 PM IST
New Delhi, July 28: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday said it is in process of attac...
NIA Begins Process to Attach Properties of Proclaimed Offender Zakir Naik
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Naik declared proclaimed offender, NIA starts prop attachment
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New Delhi, Jul 28 (PTI) Controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik has been declared a proclaimed off...
Naik declared proclaimed offender, NIA starts prop attachment
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Zakir Naik's Passport Revoked by Narendra Modi Government
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Mumbai, July 18: After the National Investigative Agency's request to revoke the passport of televan...
Zakir Naik's Passport Revoked by Narendra Modi Government
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