Talk:Zakir Naik
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What act is being talked about here?
To preface, this is a very sensitive issue and that being said, the relationship of public figures to such issues should be described with care and clarity. I have no issue with this being cited if it's done with care and clarity.
Under [views] >> [social issues] it says this:
Naik says the LGBT community are experiencing a mental illness caused by the use of pornography propagated by television. Naik says that in accordance with the Quran and sunnah, he recommends the death penalty for homosexuals that committed the act publicly.
There is no act described here, there's a description of a people who Naik is described as saying are experiencing a mental illness, but there's no mention of the action that such people would have committed to be penalized.
It seems to imply that this is describing the very experience of being in this community as being "the act" that should be penalized and if that is the case then such a position should be clarified, though such a thing is an overt category error to say the least. Being homosexual is not an act to be committed and thus cannot be "committed" publicly or in private.
If it is not the case that it is the experience of being in this community that is what is described as "the act", then whatever is being referenced should be mentioned.
There were two sources mentioned to support that claim about "the act" needing to be penalized. One was an article on India Today that had misinformation in its very first sentence about the subject being banned from Malaysia though it is well established that the subject lives in that country as a permanent resident (it's even mentioned in this Wikipedia article).
The second source has a paywall and the amount of information shown for free doesn't reference such claims, but I give the benefit of the doubt that they are present in the full article.
Both sources seem to be very sensationalist in nature, and they may as well contain correct information. But the ambiguity of the information that is coming from these sources violates [WP:NPOV] and [WP:BLP]. 182.253.176.226 (talk) 04:54, 12 October 2025 (UTC)
