[Reader-list] UK bans radical preacher Zakir Naik from entering UK

Sat Jun 19 18:01:34 IST 2010

Thank you Kshmendra for the links ...

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Did Zakir Naik say "Every Muslim should be a terrorist"? There iseems to be
> video evidence available.
>
> Please see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxk5AAA5FbI
>
> The transcript quoted in The Guardian is accurate.
>
>  “Beware of Muslims saying Osama Bin Laden is right or wrong. I reject them
> … we don’t know.
>
> “But if you ask my view, if given the truth, if he is fighting the enemies
> of Islam, I am for him. I don’t know what he’s doing. I’m not in touch with
> him. I don’t know him personally. I read the newspaper.
>
> “If he is terrorising the terrorists, if he is terrorising America the
> terrorist, the biggest terrorist, every Muslim should be a terrorist.”
>
> Zakir Naik has many 'interesting' things to say.
>
> His recent appearance on NDTV in Barkha Dutt's show was not to his liking.
> Naik presents an interesting analysis (from the little I watched) spread
> over 25 video files starting with
> http://www.youtube.com/shahadahproject#p/c/51EDB13BC5C647F5/0/ZJ29c_uFrbA
>
>
> Kshmendra
>
>
>
>
> --- On *Sat, 6/19/10, Javed <javedmasoo at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Javed <javedmasoo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] UK bans radical preacher Zakir Naik from
> entering UK
> To: "Pawan Durani" <pawan.durani at gmail.com>
> Cc: "reader-list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Saturday, June 19, 2010, 3:09 PM
>
>
> Great. So I hope you will also post messages that show "that
> particular" thought about other religions too (and not only Islam),
> since every wrong deed needs to be criticized and questioned. You
> didn't comment about the fact that Zakir Naik's TV channel is Peace TV
> and he advocates peace.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com<http://us.mc572.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=pawan.durani@gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> > Dear Javed,
> >
> > I appreciate your mail and your thoughts , however I would like to
> > clarify that I have nothing against any religion .
> >
> > I am just anti the particular thought , which also made an entire race
> > of 7 lac homeless , who live as refugees since last 20 years.
> >
> > It is just that particular thought process that I hate , which is
> > spreading like epidemic.
> >
> > I hope I have made myself clear. We would need more people like you to
> > contain that particular thinking.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Pawan
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Javed <javedmasoo at gmail.com<http://us.mc572.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=javedmasoo@gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> >> Pawan, although I think Zakir Naik should be banned from entering or
> >> exiting from any where, but I don't think he ever said "every Muslim
> >> should be a terrorist". His channel is called Peace TV and he does
> >> talk most of the times about Islam being a peaceful religion (although
> >> I may not agree to most of what he preaches). But I think this
> >> Telegraph report is highly biased and wrong in quoting him this way.
> >>
> >> I think your food doesn't get digested until you have posted thirteen
> >> anti-Islam messages everyday. Eh?
> >>
> >> Javed
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com<http://us.mc572.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=pawan.durani@gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> >>> "A radical preacher who claimed that “every Muslim should be a
> >>> terrorist” has been banned from coming to Britain,"
> >>>
> >>>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7836557/Home-secretary-Theresa-May-bans-radical-preacher-Zakir-Naik-from-entering-UK.html
> >>>
> >>> n her first major test of being tough on extremism, Theresa May, the
> >>> new Home Secretary, said she was banning Zakir Naik from entering the
> >>> UK.
> >>> Dr Naik, a 44-year-old Indian televangelist, had been due to give a
> >>> series of lectures at arenas in Wembley Arena and Sheffield.
> >>>
> >>> The Home Secretary can exclude or deport an individual if she thinks
> >>> that their presence in the UK is not conducive to the public good.
> >>> There had been speculation that Dr Naik would be allowed into the UK.
> >>> However Mrs May said she was excluding him because of the “numerous
> >>> comments” he made were evidence of his “unacceptable behaviour”.
> >>> This behaviour applies to anyone who writes or publishes material
> >>> which can “foment justify or glorify terrorist violence” or “seek to
> >>> provoke others to terrorist acts”.
> >>> Mrs May told The Daily Telegraph: “I have excluded Dr Naik from the
> >>> UK. Numerous comments made by Dr Naik are evidence to me of his
> >>> unacceptable behaviour.
> >>> “Coming to the UK is a privilege not a right and I am not wiling to
> >>> allow those who might not be conducive to the public good to enter the
> >>> UK.
> >>> “Exclusion powers are very serious and no decision is taken lightly or
> >>> as a method of stopping open debate on issues.”
> >>> Home Office sources said Dr Naik had been filmed on a website making
> >>> inflammatory comments such as “every Muslim should be a terrorist”.
> >>> He said: “When a robber sees a policeman he’s terrified. So for a
> >>> robber, a policeman is a terrorist. So in this context, every Muslim
> >>> should be a terrorist to the robber.”
> >>> He has also been filmed saying: “There are many Jews who are good to
> >>> Muslims, but as a whole … The Koran tells us, as a whole, they will be
> >>> our staunchest enemy.”
> >>> In a web posting from 2006 he said: “Beware of Muslims saying Osama
> >>> Bin Laden is right or wrong. I reject them … we don’t know.
> >>> “But if you ask my view, if given the truth, if he is fighting the
> >>> enemies of Islam, I am for him. I don’t know what he’s doing. I’m not
> >>> in touch with him. I don’t know him personally. I read the newspaper.
> >>> “If he is terrorising the terrorists, if he is terrorising America the
> >>> terrorist, the biggest terrorist, every Muslim should be a terrorist.”
> >>> He is also reported to have said suggested that western women make
> >>> themselves “more susceptible to rape” by wearing revealing clothing.
> >>> He reportedly said: “Western society has actually degraded [women] to
> >>> the status of concubines, mistresses and social butterflies, who are
> >>> mere tools in the hands of pleasure seekers and sex marketeers”
> >>> Last night Patrick Mercer MP, the former chairman of the Commons
> >>> counter-terrorism committee, said: “This is really good news. It shows
> >>> that firm Government action can be taken against people.
> >>> "This is exactly the sort of man who we want to exclude from this
> country.”
> >>> Dr Naik has been named as the third most popular spiritual guru in
> >>> India and was judged in 2009 to be 82nd in a list of India’s most
> >>> powerful people.
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