There is nothing called ‘benign accommodation’ in Islam, though Muslims aggressively demand it in non-Islamic countries. Fugitive terror supporter Zakir Naik, in YouTube video, spoke about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent decree to convert Hagia Sophia Church into a mosque.
According to the fugitive Salafist preacher, if Muslims conquer land as the Ottomans did, they are free to use it as they wish, including converting churches, temples and synagogues into mosques. If the non-Muslims have a treaty or the non-Muslims surrender to the Muslims by becoming dhimmis (second-class citizens) and pay jizia tax, then non-Muslims are allowed to keep their places of worship. In this case also, non-Muslims cannot expand their places of worship or build new ones. They can just keep the old ones as it is, says Naik.
Naik there are many instances in the history of Islam that even the Prophet himself destroyed idols and temples of non-Muslims. He had even asked his followers to destroy temples of idol worshippers, said Naik. He said Islamic scholars who criticize Turkish President Erdoğan’s decision issue Islamic verdicts that do not follow the Quran and the Sunnah in order to garner support from the non-Muslim countries. “Many times, Muslims living in Western countries or even some of the Muslims living in Arab lands – trying to be soft to the non–Muslims and trying that… They are the ones who will support them, they are the ones who are going to fund them, et cetera, they are the ones who are going to protect them… Many times they give verdicts that are against the Quran and the Sunnah. Be careful if you are going to go against our Muslim brother, [Erdoğan],” he added.
Recently Naik had said that journalists like NDTV’s Ravish Kumar will have to languish in hell though he was good-hearted non-Muslim because paradise is only reserved for Muslims.
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