Mumbai: Controversial preacher Zakir Naik's organisation Islamic Research Foundation is listed as a resource for religious learning on the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, says a report by a leading news channel.
Naik's Mumbai based organisation is the only South Asian centre listed on the site, thus showing a link between the preacher and the 26/11 terror mastermind Hafiz Saeed who is the founder of JuD.
The JuD website was banned in India after 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. JuD is belived to be the front of banned terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba.It was floated by Saeed after LeT was banned by United Nations.
This was revealed after accessing the website through a virtual private network (VPN) as it has been banned in India since the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, CNN-News18 says in a report.
Earlier on Thursday, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis directed Mumbai Police to launch a probe into controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik's public documents.
The Chief Minister has personally asked the City Police Commissioner to initiate an inquiry into his documents and submit a report.
"I have asked the Mumbai Police Commissioner to conduct a probe (into Naik's speeches) and submit a report," the Chief Minister said.
Everything, including Naik's speeches, his social media accounts, sources of funding (of a foundation run by him in Mumbai) will be scrutinised, Fadnavis, who also holds the Home portfolio, said.
Zakir Naik with his hard line Wahabi Islam preaching is belived to have influenced many extermists who have later been involved in terror attacks.
Naik hit national headlines after it came to light that the two of the Dhaka militants involved in last week's massacre were inspired by him.
Other terror suspects who were reportedly fans of Naik include Afghan-American Najibulla Zazi, who was arrested in 2009 for an alleged conspiracy to bomb the New York subway, Dr Kafeel Ahmed who stormed Glasgow airport in an explosives-laden car in 2007, and Mumbai’s Rahil Sheikh, arrested for the 7/11 serial train blasts.
