"Dr. Zakir Naik made his remarks in public forums where our pastors and scholars were not given the opportunity to properly respond or clarify the misinformation stemming from his misguided views," Dr Marshall added.
The accused was vandalised the idol of Muthyalamma temple in Telangana’s Kurmaguda region in Hyderabad was also involved in similar vandalism incidents in Mumbai in 2022.
The criticism of Zakir Naik by Supriya Shrinate must not be mistaken as an official Congress stance. It is at best her personal stance, given his specific targeting of her previous occupation as news anchor.
Zakir Naik also claimed that PM Modi's representative had asked him to support the government on Article 370. He said that he supports the freedom of Kashmiris and the removal of Article 370 is against the Constitution.
After learning about his visit to Nigeria, many Nigerians issued a public appeal to the authorities asking them to stop his visit to the country. For this, they asserted that he could incite religious "disharmony or feelings of enmity, hatred" through his religious sermons which they noted have been reflected in the early part of his visit.
The professor has been identified as Assistant Professor Sher Ali of the Government Postgraduate Degree College. He was compelled to apologize for teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution which is an elementary subject in biology. In addition, he was also made to denounce mixed-gender sessions and assert that 'women are inferior to men'.