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IICC lands into controversy over Naik; Arif Mohd Khan says disappointed by platform given to preacher

New Delhi, Jul 10 (UNI) Former Union Minister and Islamic scholar Arif Mohammad Khan, who has slammed the teachings of Zakir Naik and opposed India Islamic Cultural Centre’ s invitation to him for a lecture about a year ago, today said he was very much disappointed by the IICC justifying giving the platform to the ''so-called Islamic preacher''.
In reply to the protest letter of Mr Khan written on January 17, 2015, the IICC president had said that Dr Naik was well know scholar on Qur’an whom people wanted to listen to.
Mr Khan, who had clashed with Rajiv Gandhi in 1980s after his government had turned the Shah Bano judgement, today told UNI that the IICC reply letter had suggested that he was unnecessarily trying to create controversies around the Centre.
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