BJP’s Savio Rodrigues requires boycott of FIFA World Cup over Zakir Naik; calls Naik a “terror sympathiser”

Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) spokesperson Savio Rodrigues on Tuesday appealed to the federal government, Indian Soccer Associations and Indians travelling to Qatar to boycott the FIFA World Cup 2022. This comes after an invite was despatched to fugitive preacher Zakir Naik to ship a number of lectures on Islam throughout the ongoing FIFA World Cup.

Naik, who faces a number of expenses of cash laundering and hate speech in India, is predicted to provide a number of spiritual lectures all through the match. The opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup came about in Qatar on November 20, Sunday, and the soccer match will run as much as December 18.

Rodrigues took to the microblogging platform Twitter to induce Indians to boycott FIFA World Cup 2022. He said that Naik is a “terror sympathiser” and an “Indian fugitive needed on money-laundering and hate speeches expenses” and added that Naik is instrumental in spreading Islamic radicalism and hate resulting in terror.  

“Islamic values are usually not common. Humanity is the one common worth. Whereas I respect the legal guidelines of Qatar, Qatar should respect our legal guidelines and never give a platform to terror sympathisers like Dr Zakir Naik, a fugitive from India and hate preacher. He’s at least a terrorist,” Rodrigues stated on Twitter.

Earlier in March, the Residence Ministry had declared Zakir Naik-founded organisation, the Islamic Analysis Basis (IRF) an illegal affiliation and banned it for 5 years. India banned Naik’s Islamic Analysis Basis, accusing him of encouraging and aiding its followers in “selling or trying to advertise emotions of enmity, hatred, or ill-will between completely different spiritual communities and teams.” 

Zakir Naik has been residing in exile in Malaysia since 2017.

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