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Ofcom has been urged to “immediately revoke” the licence of a TV station founded by an Islamic preacher who was banned from UK over concerns about extremism.
Zakir Naik’s “personal television channel”, Peace TV, has continued broadcasting to millions of British households since he was barred from entering the country in 2010.
The high-profile Indian Muslim preacher was banned by Theresa May when she was home secretary, after he praised Osama bin Laden and said “all Muslims should be terrorists”.
Other speakers listed on Peace TV’s website include Bilal Philips, a Jamaican-Canadian Islamic preacher who was named by the US as a co-conspirator in a 1993 plot to bomb New York’s World Trade Centre. Dr Phillips has been banned from several countries, including the UK.