Preacher lodges police reports against his critics

PETALING JAYA: Zakir Naik has lodged police reports and will be taking legal action against some of his critics in government.

His lawyers will serve four more letters of demand next week after having already done so to Human Resources Minister M. Kulasegaran.

“Yes, we only managed to do so at Kula’s office today since it is a Friday, but we will do the rest next week, ” said lawyer Datuk Akberdin Abdul Kader.

Both he and Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah will be acting as Zakir’s lawyers.

Akberdin also said that a police report against the five was also made by his client at the Section 6 police station in Shah Alam yesterday morning.

In the report, Zakir named Kulasegaran, Klang MP Charles Santiago, Bagan Dalam assemblyman Satees Muniandy, Penang Deputy Chief Minister II Dr P. Ramasamy and former ambassador Dennis J. Ignatius as having made defamatory statements against him.

“The said individuals had wrongly quoted me out of context (on) my reply to one of the questions posed to me after my speech on the topic ‘Misconceptions of Islam’.

“Clearly they had twisted and manipulated (it) to my disadvantage and to feed their mischievous own political agenda.

“They have manipulated my speech and accused me of creating communal disharmony when in actuality they are the ones who have been instigating the public and inciting communal disharmony for their own political mileage, ” Zakir said in his police report.