Zakir Naik – Why was s Visa to UK Cancelled
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The speaker discusses a media campaign in which they were supposed to give a talk in London, but instead had to cancel their visa due to a mis emphasize of hate. The cancellation resulted in their visa being cancelled and their visa being revoked, causing them to receive multiple visa entries. The cancellation was a result of the media campaign.
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One such prey of the media, of these
media tactics, was myself.
Eight months back, in the fourth week of
June 2010, I was supposed to give a
series of talk in UK.
I was supposed to give a talk in
the Wembley Arena in Wembley, London, in LG
Arena NEC Birmingham, as well as Sheffield Arena
in Sheffield.
All these venues had a capacity of 10
to 15,000 people, and these are prestigious
venues.
Just three weeks before my lecture tour, there
was an article which came in one of
the leading newspaper, that is Sunday Times.
Sunday Times, it gave an article, Muslim preacher
of hate let into Britain.
And this article, it gave portions of my
speeches, which were either quoted out of context,
or they were misquoted.
And it portrayed me as a preacher of
a person who promotes terrorism.
They revoked and cancelled my visa.
I had a valid five years multiple entry
visa to UK, which was issued on the
15th of July 2008, valid till 15th of
July 2013.