The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is going raw on the Islamic preacher Zakir Naik. The NIA has filed a chargesheet against Zakir Naik on Thursday. He has been booked on the issue of manifesting the terror activities and mongering the hate speeches among the youth.

In July, the NIA had requested the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to revoke the passport of the Islamic preacher under the provision of the passport act, 1967. Mr. Naik was issued the notice for three times by NIA, but he didn’t show up for the investigations. On the note, the NIA special court issued the non-bailable warrant against the Islamic preacher on April 21.

In the series of events against the preacher, the NIA registered a criminal case against Naik at its Mumbai branch under the Sections 153A of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Sections 10, 13 and 18 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 on November 18, 2016.

Zakir Naik

The full name of the Islamic Preacher is Zakir Abdul Karim Naik and he was born on 18th October 1965. He has founded the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) and also the founder of Peace TV which is said to draw 100 million viewers on which he preaches the ideologies. Unlike the other preachers, he delivers the preaches in English and not in Urdu or Hindi.

He has trained as the physician before turning out to be the public speaker.

His preaching is currently banned in India, Bangladesh, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Zakir Naik terms Islam as the best religion. In an interview, he said, “the Quran says that Islam is the best religion. No other religious text or scripture claims this fact.” He further added, “Islam has also been labeled as the intolerant religion, and it is indeed, but towards corruption, discrimination, injustice, adultery, alcoholism, and all evils. Islam is the most tolerant religion as far as promoting the human values is concerned.”

The Islamic preacher has always been known to be giving the flow to Islamic ideologies that might seem inhuman to the sane society. For example, he supports chopping of hand if the person is found guilty of theft.

He is also in support of beating the wife gently. In support of his statement the preacher said, “As far as the family is concerned, a man is the leader. So, he has the right, but he should beat his wife lightly”.

The Islamic Preacher is against the music as well. The preacher equalized the music with alcohol. He had said that both are intoxicating in nature. He has always condemned dancing and singing because both the acts prohibited in Islam. Not only this, he has recommended death penalty
for the people that are indulged in Homosexuality.

Naik is under the radar of NIA since last year. He has been accused of encouraging and aiding his followers through his public speeches, lectures and talks to promote the disharmony on grounds of religion, communities and groups.

(Source: northeastindia)