By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
In a recent interview, Islamic preacher Dr Zakir Naik has spoken about the controversies that surround him, and how the Indian government, with the help of Indian media tried to project him as a demon figure.
In an interview with KTV Al Majlis, a TV channel run by state-owned Kuwait Television KTV, Naik talks about how the Indian government tried to pin him down and his organisation after the terrorist attack in Dhaka, Bangladesh last year. He claimed that if he was planning or inciting terrorism through his videos, which are online since last 10 or 15 years, why did the government only look into the matter now?
He said, “It is shocking that many times, the Indian government had invited me to give lecture on religion in National Academy of Hyderabad. Sometimes, I was even put under the pressure to give a talk in the National academy.”
Naik pointed towards Yogi Adityanath’s selection as UP’s Chief Minister and said that the state of democracy in India is such that the one who asked to dig graves of Muslim women and rape the corpses has become the Chief Minister of the largest state.
He said that Indian police wanted to interrogate him physically, but he denied their demand as everyone is aware of what Indian police does to suspects
He said that Indian law allows to preach and propagate the ideas of a religion. “I did not break a single law of the Indian constitution”, said Naik.
Naik also pointed towards the hypocrisy of Indian administration after lynching incidents. He said that people get killed in public, but instead of investigating into the murder, they instead focus on whether it was beef or meat.