A Belated Appreciation of Zakir Naik: Banned from Britain, and Exiled from India, for His Truth-Telling

 

Zakir Naik of Peace TV has faced hardship—and was forced to flee India for his life—due to his uncompromising insistence on truth-telling. His TV channel has an estimated audience of over 100 million viewers. From The Guardian:

In a July 2008 Peace TV broadcast, Naik suggested that al-Qaida was not responsible for flying hijacked airliners into New York’s World Trade Center on 11 September 2001, killing almost 3,000 people.

“Even a fool will know that this was an inside job,” he said in the video, claiming then-president George W Bush was behind the attacks.

In 2010 Naik was reportedly barred from entering Britain for “numerous comments” which showed his “unacceptable behaviour”.