Maulana Fazlullah at first taught the holy Quran to children at his Mam Dheri mosque. His sermonizing tone changed from sermons to threats after he opened his unauthorized FM radio channel in 2004.
People started supporting him with men and material as he earned the nickname "Maulana Radio." He soon got a long pool of supporters among the traditionalist Pashtuns of the area, as well as previous supporters of the jailed Muhammad and Pakistanis working abroad.
He was against polio vaccinations, which he had termed as “a conspiracy of the Jews and Christians to stunt the population growth of Muslims.”
