{"id":300056,"date":"2018-07-06T10:10:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T10:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300056"},"modified":"2018-07-06T10:10:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T10:10:16","slug":"wont-deport-zakir-naik-to-india-malaysian-pm-mahathir-mohamad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/wont-deport-zakir-naik-to-india-malaysian-pm-mahathir-mohamad\/","title":{"rendered":"Won\u2019t deport Zakir Naik to India: Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-300060 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/zakir-naik-279x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/zakir-naik-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/zakir-naik-696x748.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/zakir-naik-391x420.jpg 391w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/zakir-naik.jpg 702w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/>Controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, 52, who is wanted in India over several allegations of terror-related activities and hate speech is living in Malaysia. However, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on July 6 has refused to send him back to India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;As long as he is not creating any problem, we will not deport him because he has been given permanent residency status,&#8221; said Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad at a news conference in administrative capital Putrajaya outside Kuala Lumpur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the Foreign Ministry, Malaysia was reviewing India&#8217;s request to extradite him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;At this stage, our request is under active consideration of the Malaysian side. Our High Commission in Kuala Lumpur is in regular touch with the relevant Malaysian authorities in this regard,&#8221; said Raveesh Kumar, spokesperson, Ministry of External Affairs at a press briefing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a July 2008 TV broadcast, Zakir Naik suggested that Al-Qaeda was not responsible for flying hijacked airliners into New York&#8217;s World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, killing almost 3,000 people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Zakir, who is the founder of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) is wanted in India for allegedly conducted terror-related activities and hate speech.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India and Malaysia have an existing extradition treaty.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, 52, who is wanted in India over several allegations of terror-related activities and hate speech is living in Malaysia. However, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on July 6 has refused to send him back to India. &#8220;As long as he is not creating any problem, we will not deport him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[3422,574,3424,3423,3421,3420,3419],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300061,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300056\/revisions\/300061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}