Malaysian Hindu Minister demands action against Dr Zakir Naik for saying ‘Malaysian Hindus enjoy 100% rights unlike Indian Muslims’

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August 14, 2019

Kuala Lumpur, Aug 14: Malaysia’s human resources minister M Kulasegaran has called for action against Indian physician-turned-religious scholar Dr Zakir Naik, who has been granted permanent residency in the country, for saying that Hindus in Malaysia are respected and treated equally by the government unlike the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government’s ill-treatment of Indian Muslims.

Kulasegaran, one of the senior-most Hindu politicians in the Malaysian coalition government, said in a statement that Dr Naik’s “actions do not reflect one deserving of a permanent resident status and this will be brought up in the next Cabinet meeting”.

He said the time had come for the “fugitive foreigner to leave Malaysia and to face charges of terrorism and money laundering...in India (under Modi government)”.

Kulasegaran had criticised Dr Naik in the past too and raised the issue of the preacher during a meeting of the Malaysian Cabinet in July last year along with two other ministers from minority communities. He was angered by Dr Naik’s recent remarks that Malaysian Hindus were more loyal to the Indian PM than his Malaysian counterpart.

“Dr Naik recently compared the Hindus in Malaysia to the Muslims in India and said that the former enjoyed more than 100% rights in Malaysia compared to Muslims in India. He further said that it was unfortunate that Hindus in Malaysia, despite the benefits, are more loyal to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi than to Tun Dr Mahathir (Mohamd),” Kulasegaran said in his statement.

“For questioning the loyalty of Malaysian Hindus and touching a raw nerve in our multi-ethnic society, necessary action must be taken against the controversial preacher Zakir Naik,” the minister said.

Kulasegaran described Naik as “an outsider who is a fugitive and has little knowledge of the Malaysian history”. He said Naik shouldn’t be “given such privilege to run down other Malaysians” and question their loyalty to their country.

“Is Naik also attempting to create a fissure in a multi-ethnic and religious society so that he continues to enjoy immunity and privilege by obtaining the support of the Muslim community to continue to stay in this country?” he questioned.

Kulasegaran said Malaysia has “enjoyed relative peace and harmony as compared to many Islamic countries due to the great balancing act of its leaders” and its stability is rooted in accommodating different ethnic groups without questioning their loyalty.

“Should Malaysians be split over a man called Zakir Naik? Therefore, it’s time for Malaysians to unite and safeguard the peace and stability of the nation by exposing the dubious strategy of Naik in using religious and racial sentiments in a tolerant and harmonious country,” he said.

India is yet to hear from Malaysia on a request to extradite Dr Naik, who is accused of money laundering and inciting terrorism by the Modi government. However, Dr Naik has rubbished the accusations as blatant lies. In June, Mahathir said Malaysia had the right not to extradite Dr Naik if the preacher believes he will not get justice at home.

Mahathir’s remarks had focused attention on the issue of Dr Naik, who has lived in Saudi Arabia and Malaysia since he left India more than two years ago.

Also Read: Not keen to keep Dr Zakir Naik, says PM Mahathir as Malaysian Hindus demand his deportation

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Malaya-Warrior
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Thursday, 15 Aug 2019

Malaysia muslim must kick all hindu malaysia from there country immeditaly, what zakir naik said is true...

 

all hindus in malaysia are black sheep...they support indian BJP government and want muslim to be elimanated...we muslim in all world respect all religious people but hindus are not like that.....

 

i request malaysian government to kick all the black sheep from there land...belive in muslim tounge not in non muslim....

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July 7,2020

Washington DC, Jul 7: With US President Donald Trump promoting re-opening the economy, the country has now four epicentres of coronavirus instead of one -- Los Angeles, cities in Texas, cities in Florida and Arizona. This has led to the governors fearing that their hospitals could be overrun with patients.

"We are right back where we were at the peak of the epidemic during the New York outbreak...The difference now is that we really had one epicentre of spread when New York was going through its hardship. Now, we really have four major epicentres of spread -- Los Angeles, cities in Texas, cities in Florida and Arizona. Florida looks to be in the worst shape," Scott Gottlieb, former Food and Drug Administration commissioner was quoted by The Washington Post as saying in an interview.

As per the latest data, Florida, New York and California have crossed the 200,000 mark of coronavirus cases.

After Texas continued to break its own record of registering the highest number of coronavirus cases, Austin Mayor Steve Adler (D) was quoted as saying in an interview, "If we do not change this trajectory, then I am within two weeks of having our hospitals overrun."

He further said that intensive care units in the city will start overflowing within 10 days.

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As per the latest update by the Johns Hopkins University, a total of 2,938,625 people in the US have tested coronavirus positive and 130,306 deaths have been reported so far.

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Floyd, a black man, died last Monday in Minneapolis, Minnesota after a white police officer pressed his knee on his neck for more than eight minutes. The officer was arrested on Friday and charged with third-degree murder.

The actor went live via Instagram on Saturday to show his view of events, but he could be also be seen on a CNN broadcast simultaneously, with viewers watching him get hit by a police baton on TV.

Sampson posted several videos on his page of a large demonstration at Pan Pacific Park near the city”s Fairfax District, where violent clashes took place throughout the day outside the Grove shopping center.

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Six months since the new coronavirus outbreak, the pandemic is still far from over, the World Health Organization said Monday, warning that "the worst is yet to come".

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"Six months ago, none of us could have imagined how our world -- and our lives -- would be thrown into turmoil by this new virus," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing.

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In an atmosphere of global political division and fractures on a national level, "the worst is yet to come. I'm sorry to say that," he said.

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