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2022-04-01 India-Pakistan
Centric to Islamic radicalisation in India, Zakir Naik’s IRF banned for 5 years
[OneIndia] Radical islamic preacher, Zakir Naik
Indian Islamic preacher, founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation, which doesn't rely very heavily on the scientific method. He is also the founder of the oxymoronic Peace TV channel through which he reaches 200 million viewers. He has been called an authority on comparative religion and the most influential Salafi ideologue in India, though usually by himself. Before becoming a public speaker, he trained as a physician. His preaching is currently banned in India, Bangladesh, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Antarctica. He is currently holed up in Malaysia, where he's not banned...
's organization Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) has been banned on charges of radicalising Moslem youth.

The Ministry of Home Affairs in a notification declared the IRF an unlawful association and banned it for five years. The MHA said that the speeches of Naik were objectionable in nature and he had been extolling known faceless myrmidons apart from stating that every Moslem should be a terrorist.

The notification also said that Zakir Naik has been promoting forcible conversion of youth Islam. He has also justified suicide kabooms and had made objectionable comments against Hindus and Hindu Gods.

The notorious radical preacher has been a centric figure in every Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
recruit in India. The runaway who is in Malaysia has had his name taken several times in the past by radical elements. He has however maintained that he has nothing to do with these incidents and India is indulging in a witch-hunt against him.

In the Kerala Islamic State case, his name has cropped in the past as well. The raids that were conducted on Sunday are related to the same case and the NIA has learnt that the members of this module were on the same social media group that the faceless myrmidons who undertook the Sri Lanka blasts were. The NIA has however said that it found no direct link between the Kerala module and the one in Sri Lanka.

Last year, the NIA arrested Nashidul Hamzafar a 26 year old management student from Wayanad in Kerala. He was the first ISIS recruit from Kerala to be deported from Afghanistan. During his interrogation, he details the role played by Islamic preachers such as Naik and what sort of an influence they had on him, which ultimately prompted him to join the ISIS.

Hamzafar says that he was not attracted to the ISIS ideology for long. I found them to be too brutal and the outfit only scared me, he says. My ambition was to pursue my education and find a good job in Dubai.

A lot changed when one of his friends, Shihas sent him an audio clip regarding the Islamic State. My perception towards the outfit changed. Then I began listening to audios of Zakir Naik, Noman Alikhan among others. Their speeches inspired me and my approach towards life changed.

Going by his statements, it becomes clear that the likes of Zakir Naik through his Islamic Research Foundation and the Kerala based Peace Educational Foundation have played a huge role in the radicalisation of youth in Kerala.

Recently a Mumbai court had framed charges against Arshi Qureshi. The case relates to the indoctrination of Ashfak Majid and his associates into extreme jihadi ideology by a group of like-minded youths from Kasaragod district of Kerala. It was also stated that some members of the Zakir Naik run NGO, Islamic Research Foundation too were involved in the radicalisation process. It was further alleged that these persons had motivated the youth to join the Islamic state.

Naik has repeatedly claimed that he is being targeted due to his religion. An NIA official however says that this is misconstrued and the agency is targeting him for acts of terror.

In a reply to the Interpol, the NIA said that he is under investigation for funding terror suspects. The NIA also pointed out that it had repeatedly sent out summons to Naik, but he has not once presented himself before the agency. The NIA also said that his passport had been revoked.

Further the NIA also said that Naik's NGO Islamic Research Foundation had been banned by the Government and the same was upheld by the tribunal. He had funded a few terror suspects through his NGO and hence he needs to be questioned in that connection, the NIA also told the Interpol.
Naik not only provoked Moslems to take up arms, but was also involved in an extremely serious conversion racket. Investigations conducted in the year 2016 showed that his organization was active and strong in many parts of the country.

A complaint had been filed by one Ebin Jacob from Kerala, who alleged that his sister had been converted. The lady in question was born as Merrin. However,
the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach...
following her marriage she was taken to meet Naik's aide, Arshi Qureshi. She had converted and her name was changed to Mirriam.

Sources in the investigating agency tell OneIndia that they have learnt that Rs 50,000 cash would be paid to people who would convert to Islam. "We believe that these were forced conversions which is against the law. Moreover the law on conversions does not permit monetary benefits" sources said.

Naik exploited the situation in Kerala and added to the already existing menace of conversions to Islam. In 2016 two of Naik's aides were arrested and they revealed in detail about this racket. At that time the police had 5,700 conversions under the scanner and it was believed that nearly a 1,000 of them were done by Naik's IRF.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-04-01 01:07|| || Front Page|| [16 views ]  Top
 File under: Devout Moslems 

#1 Seems like the fellow just doesn't get the message.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-04-01 09:52||   2022-04-01 09:52|| Front Page Top

#2 In fact his followers have only grown, with each successive 'ban' and asset freeze. Narrowly avoided jail thanks to corrupt gummint servants who tipped 'im off. I had actually advised bumping him off in 2010 after one of his peace conference thingies. Today, there's danger of this whole thing blowing up as a diplomatic charlie foxtrot with the OICs.

Also, the Indian police brass and home agencies are populated by civilian recruits and officers, hopelessly dirty bastards, products of one of the most corrupt societies ever. There is no concept of duty, honor, loyalty to anything. What they do is let these foundations and outfits propagate, let them acquire capital assets, even take protection and hush money sometimes from them. Only when it becomes a national security matter they swoop in. 'Top Men' from revenue and finance, enforcement, intelligence, everyone then feasts. On the appropriated assets, the untold sums of money and property confiscated. Everyone from the ministry of finance to law and home gets a piece. Sometimes they even let the primary fcuker escape. Because they have purposely diluted evidence, looked the other way for years, they present a watered down and half-assed case to the courts. Result is, no great repercussions for the offender and the bureaucrats successfully digest what loot they can.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-01 10:54||   2022-04-01 10:54|| Front Page Top

#3 So what India needs is its very own Rapid Action Battalion to crossfire them whut needs it, Dron?
Posted by trailing wife 2022-04-01 10:58||   2022-04-01 10:58|| Front Page Top

#4 "Shot hisself in the back of his head with a shuttergun, by God!"
Posted by Frank G 2022-04-01 11:17||   2022-04-01 11:17|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm afraid the leadership is too full of tail between the asscheeks hindoos, they're afraid of Moslem riots, civil war, then having to explain themselves to the west. Those self-righteous arbiters of morality with the sanctions stick in their hands.

Which is why the current diminishing of the west's capability to 'protect human rights' by interventionism is actually welcome here.

We have such treats planned. It's the civil leadership that always obstructs good work. Because of them everything has to be surgical, wrapped in political obfuscation. A little like Israel. In fact a lot like Israel.

Moslem countries have the luxury of being... moslem. They adopt and kiss the stupid constitutions Europeans taught them but ultimately they live by the calvinball they know.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-01 11:46||   2022-04-01 11:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Heh... Our NSGs and CAPFs trainers actually trained their police rapid action teams from which RAB was later born. They send their best officers here every year to specialize in tactics, cyber, etc.

What I wish is our officers would learn something from them.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-01 11:52||   2022-04-01 11:52|| Front Page Top

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