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Zakir Naik broadcasting to millions in Britain through ‘personal TV station’

By: Keerthi Mohan

Islamic preacher Zakir Naik was barred from entering Britain in 2010, but he continues to broadcast to millions of British households through his personal television channel, it has been reported. According to The Independent, Ofcom has been urged to “immediately revoke” the licence of Naik’s television channel Peace TV. The Henry Jackson Society, a foreign policy think tank, has accused Ofcom of “a material failure” to protect viewers by revoking the station’s licence. “The Broadcasting Act explicitly requires Ofcom to ensure licensees are ‘fit and proper’,” Emma Webb, a research fellow at the think tank who has written a report…

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