The Freethought Party of India (FPI) has demanded that the Central Government ban religious preachers like Dr Zakir Naik who create fundamentalists and disturbances in society.
Sharply reacting to the massacre of 22 people, including India’s 19-year-old vivacious Tarishi Jain, by fanatical youths that included Rohan Imitiaz and Nibras Islam the two Chelas of Dr Zakir Naik, FPI general secretary B Ramchandra CST Voltaire demanded that the worship or the thanks-giving should be priestless and sermon-free in any religion.
“Dr Zakir Naik is a medical doctor. He should have spent his time in treating patients. But instead of that, he has chosen to poison the minds of the younger generation of Muslims and he has been boastfully saying that 90 per cent of the Bangladeshis are in appreciation of what he has been preaching. Two attackers have openly admitted that they got influenced and had become fundamentalists because of the motivation provided to them by the sermons preached by Naik,” said a FPI release.
leaders like Digvijay Singh are thoroughly unethical and such people go to any length in placating Muslim preachers like Dr Naik because of the Congress’s vote-bank politics, it said.