(Mashaallah) Zakir Naik honored with King Faisal prize

Mashaallah this is a great honor for a renowned scholar such as Zakir Naik

Quote

Saudi Arabia gives top prize to cleric who blames George Bush for 9/11

An Indian television preacher who has called the 9/11 attacks an “inside job” received one of Saudi Arabia’s most prestigious prizes on Sunday, for “service to Islam”.

Zakir Naik, president of the Islamic Research Foundation in India, was one of five recipients of the King Faisal international prize from Saudi Arabia’s King Salman during a ceremony at a luxury Riyadh hotel.

Naik was honoured for being one of the most renowned non-Arabic speaking promoters of Islam. He founded the Peace TV channel, billed as the world’s only channel specialising in comparative religion.

It has an estimated English-language audience exceeding 100 million, according to his award citation.

“Islam is the only religion that can bring peace to the whole of humanity,” he said in a video biography aired at the ceremony.

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”.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/02/saudi-arabia-gives-top-prize-to-cleric-who-blames-george-bush-for-911

Welcome

Donations

Recent Posts

New Britain

Marcion and the introduct...

الحبيب من يشبه اكثر؟؟؟

Random Islamic History Po...

Lights on the way

What music are you listen...

Pope Francis Signals Rema...

Do humans have needed kno...

Gaza assault

Qur'anic studies today

Kashmir endgame

عيد مبارك للجميع! ^_^

Theme Changer

Topic: (Mashaallah) Zakir Naik honored with King Faisal prize

kephas

OP - March 03, 2015, 03:52 AM

Basic Information

General Resources

CEMB Organisation