Kerala’s Zakir Naik- M M Akbar, Islamic preacher and Managing Director of Peace Intl School arrested

NewsBharati    26-Feb-2018
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Hyderabad, February 26: MM Akbar, known as Kerala’s Zakir Naik, is an Islamic preacher also the managing director of Peace International School was arrested in Hyderabad. Peace International School of Kerala was ordered to be shut down for enticing ‘Islamic Radicalization’ in young minds. 

Enticing young students into ‘radical Islamisation’ -the sole motive was the frame that caught the State Education Department to eye the education system practised in Peace International School.

MM Akbar had arrived in Hyderabad from Australia and was scheduled to board a flight to Doha today. Police sources said that they are looking into the details and procedure to take the controversial preacher to Kerala.

MM Akbar came to limelight earlier in January after Kerala government decided to shut down his school near Kochi for promoting enmity among different groups on the basis of religion.It was the same school which recently hit the headlines after 21 people went missing from Kerala to reportedly join the ISIS in Afghanistan and Syria.

Among the missing, was Abdul Rasheed, who is suspected to be the ringleader of this group and was an employee of the Peace School. His wife Yasmin Ahmad, also missing, had earlier taught at the school.

Peace International School has 13 branches in different districts of Kerala. A chapter of the textbook taught in class II of the school was leaked by parents and some others to the media, following which the state government initiated an investigation.

The probe also revealed that the school was not following textbooks of SCERT, NCERT or CBSE but using books which were out of syllabus and published by private companies.

The officers conducting the investigation said that textbooks, published by Navi Mumbai-based Burooj Realization, were distributed in Class II of all the branches of the school. The books allegedly propagated Islamic orthodoxy and conversion.

After the arrest of Mohamed Vaid, 38, Sameed Ahammed Sheikh, 31, and Sahil Hameed Sayed, 28, Burooj Realization had withdrawn the textbooks distributed to schools across the country.

“They confessed that there were errors in the books and claimed that corrected books will be distributed from the next academic year,” an officer said.

In the following link, you can find the detailed information of the people working for Islamizing minds and sending them to take ‘terrorism’ in the name of religion.