Youth Ministry concedes football ground for Zakir Naik event
18 May 2010, 6:28 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
Minister for Human Resources and Youth, Hassan Latheef, has agreed to release the Maafaanu football grounds to the Islamic Ministry to host visiting Islamic scholar Zakir Naiks’s sermon.
The decision comes after Latheef said yesterday that the venue requested was ”only for football’,’ and would dishearten the youth who practice football there every day.
Latheef said that the decision was made yesterday ”despite the difficulties.”
”It was very, very difficult to release the land for any purpose other than sport and music,” Latheef said, ”but we have decided to give that land as the Islamic Ministry has requested.”
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