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India to take action against Islamic preacher for hate speech

Xinhua, July 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

Indian government will take actions against an Islamic preacher for hate speech which inspired the terrorists in the Dhaka attack earlier this month, said local media Wednesday.

An Indian official Wednesday said Zakir Nayek, a Mumbai-based Islamic preacher, has caused concern of the government for his speech.

"His speech is a matter of concern for us. Our agencies are working on this. But as a minister, I will not comment what action will be taken," the Press Trust of India quoted Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju as saying.

Bangladeshi newspaper Daily Star had reported that one of the Dhaka attack terrorists, Rohan Imtiaz, who was the son of an Awami League leader, ran a propaganda on Facebook last year quoting Nayek.

Nayek, in his lecture aired on Peace TV, an international Islamic channel, had reportedly "urged all Muslims to be terrorists", according to media reports.

Founder of Mumbai-based Islamic Research Foundation, the doctor-turned religious leader is banned in Britain, Canada and Malaysia for his hate speech.

Twenty-two people were killed by at least six terrorists in an attack upon a restaurant-cafe shop in Dhaka last Friday. Endit