Overview of Zakir Naik's Influence on Religious Discourse. Modi and Naik: Shared Agendas or Diverging Paths?
Explore Justice Markandey Katju's perspective on Zakir Naik and Narendra Modi as agents of division. Delve into their controversial statements, financial sources, and the implications for communal harmony in India.
Zakir Naik and Modi are two sides to the same coin
By Justice Markandey Katju
I have heard many of the speeches of Zakir Naik on YouTube, and am convinced he is an agent, like Modi, of some foreign power whose job is to incite hatred between Hindus and Muslims.
In one of his numerous inflammatory discourses, Zakir Naik said that the Taliban destroyed Bamyan Buddha in Afghanistan to educate Buddhists. How would Muslims feel if Israelis destroyed Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, and said they did it to educate Muslims?
Zakir Naik has often spoken against Hindu gods and goddesses., and he is a Salafi or Wahabi-type bigot.
Zakir Naik opposes Darwin's scientific theory of Evolution, and advocates Creationism, the theory in the Bible and the Quran that the world was created by God in 6 days, which is unscientific and humbug.
In 1996, Naik gave a speech specifically supporting terrorism and Osama bin Laden. He stated that "Every Muslim should be a terrorist."
An important question to ask is where does Zakir Naik get his funds from? He travels all over the world, and organises huge meetings, for which obviously a huge amount of money is required. Where does he get it from?
Since Zakir Naik does the work of inciting hatred between Muslims and Hindus ( and other non Muslims too ) to my mind we can put two and two together and conclude that he is an agent of some foreign power which finances him, and which wants Hindus and Muslims to fight each other, so that united India does not emerge as a modern industrial giant, like China or USA, for which it has all the potential, having a huge pool of technical talent, and immense natural resources.
Since he has fled India to avoid being arrested in a criminal case of money laundering and is a fugitive from justice, he is now planning to go to Pakistan, from where he can spout venom against India and Hindus.
(Justice Katju।s a retired judge of the Supreme Court of।ndia. These are his personal views.)
