Dr Zakir Naik Excluded From UK in 2010

Dr Zakir Naik Excluded From UK in 2010

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Every community has its black sheep’s, every community has its black sheep’s and I’m also aware that there are black sheep in the Muslim community. What does the Media do? The media picks up the black sheep of the Muslim community and they portray as though they as exemplary Muslims. Because of this today we find that most of the people think that Islam promotes terrorism, if you read the Quran if you read the sayings of the Prophet. Islam amongst all the other religions is at the foremost in condemning the killing of innocent human being and one such prey of the media, of the media tactics was myself. Eight months back in the fourth week of June 2010 I was supposed to give a series of talk in UK. I was supposed to give a talk in the Wembley Arena in Wembley London, in LG arena NEC Birmingham as well as Sheffield Arena in Sheffield. All these venue had a capacity of 10 to 15 thousand people and these are prestigious venues. Just three weeks before my lecture tour there was an article which came in one of the leading news paper that is Sunday Times. Sunday Times, it gave an article “Muslim preacher of Hate let into Britain” and this article it gave portions of my speeches which were either quoted out of context or they were misquoted and it portrayed me as a preacher of hate, a person who promotes terrorism. And the next couple of days this same article was picked up rehashed and re-printed in many of the news papers of UK not only in news papers of UK but newspapers internationally including the news paper of India. Unfortunately, these articles inspired the Home Secretary of UK, Theresa May, to pass an exclusion order on the 16th of June 2010. After reading these articles and hearing some clips from the youtube which were again either out of context and they were portions which were manipulated based on these youtube clips and the media report the Home Secretary of UK on 16th of June 2010 she passed an exclusion order against me. And the next day 17th of June the deputy high commission of Britain in Bombay on the 17th of June they revoked and cancelled my visa. I had a valid 5 year multiple entry Visa to UK which was issued on the 15th of July 2008 valid till 15th of July 2013. I have been coming to UK from the past 20 years I have come several times and for lecture tours for several times. I had a valid multiple entry 5 years Visa on which I had come twice before in 2008-2009 which was cancelled without giving me a fair hearing. I think this is an attack on freedom of expression as well as on human rights. Charles Farr who is the Director General of the Office of Security and Counter Terrorism, he was not in favor of this exclusion order and he wanted me to reach to those Muslims who he felt the government could not reach but the home secretary ignoring the advice of her senior most security advisor she went ahead with the exclusion order and later on a few weeks later she even suspended one of the advisor under Charles Farr who supported me. I personally have more faith in the judiciary system rather than the political system of my country India as well as the country of UK. We did a judicial review and took it to the high court and Justice Cranston though the Home Secretary said that I have no right to fight under human rights because I am a non UK citizen, Justice Cranston said and he reviewed it and he said that he can file a case and he passed a judgment...