by Ganesh Sahathevan
The Malay Mail has reported on 26 January 2024:
According to (Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim) , Sheikh Tareq is in Malaysia to attend a series of knowledge-sharing sessions, particularly in the areas of leadership, strategic planning and management.
“I also expressed appreciation for Sheikh Tareq’s efforts through positive messages that can benefit the younger generation. Thank you also for Sheikh Tareq’s prayers and hopes for Malaysia.
According to Anwar, Sheikh Tareq is in Malaysia to attend a series of knowledge-sharing sessions, particularly in the areas of leadership, strategic planning and managemen
The same Sheik Tareq has been banned from Saudi Arabia for his extremist views:
Kuwaiti preacher barred from Makkah pilgrimage
Suwaidan says he was denied entry into Saudi Arabia because of his views on Egypt’s coup
Published: October 02, 2013 17:13Gulf News Report
Dubai: Prominent Kuwaiti intellectual, motivational speaker and preacher Tareq Suwaidan has been barred from performing the lesser Umrah pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, he said on Twitter.
“I have been banned from entering Saudi Arabia solely for my views and my position against the coup in Egypt, and I say that my love for Saudi Arabia and its people is unshaken and that ideas can [never] be banned,” Suwaidan wrote on his Twitter account on Sunday.
Suwaidan was referring to the June 30 ouster of Muslim Brotherhood president Mohammad Mursi in Egypt by the military. Suwaidan acknowledged in a televised address recently that he was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. That admission cost him his television show on Al Resala, an Islamic channel owned by billionaire Saudi prince and media tycoon Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal, who also owns the Rotana conglomorate. Prince Al Waleed wrote in a letter to Suwaidan in August that there was no place for a Muslim Brotherhood member on the channel.
On Tuesday, Suwaidan tweeted: “I have known the people of Saudi Arabia to be the most hospitable of people, therefore I consider those who told me that I am not welcome not to be representing true Saudi hospitality”. He later wrote: “Averros said that ideas have wings to fly with. I say: I wish he had seen Twitter to see how right he was”.
Head of TV channel fired for 'extremist' leanings
RIYADH: Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has fired Kuwaiti preacher and motivational speaker Tareq Al-Suwaidan as director of the religious television channel he owns for what he described as “extremist inclinations” and links to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The prince said Suwaidan, who has more than 1.9 million Twitter followers and is known across the Arab world for his lectures on self-improvement from an Islamic perspective, had identified himself as “one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood” during a lecture in Yemen.
“There is no place for those who carry any deviant thoughts at Al-Resalah Channel,” Alwaleed wrote in a letter to Suwaidan, according to a news release from the prince’s office.
Prince Alwaleed said in the letter that he had repeatedly warned Suwaidan against political affiliation.
Suwaidan responded on Twitter, “Only the weak worry about earning a living, and no one abandons his principles but he who cares about earthly matters.”
Saudi Arabia has come out strongly in support of an army crackdown on the Brotherhood in Egypt following the military overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi last month.
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah on Friday called on Arabs to stand together against “attempts to destabilize” Egypt, in a message of support for the military leadership.
Saudi Arabia bans books by pro-Muslim Brotherhood clerics
Authorities in Saudi Arabia have barred the sale of books by pro-Muslim Brotherhood thinkers Salman al-Odah and Tareq al-Suwaidan
Odah and Suwaidan have expressed support for the ousted government of Mohammed Morsi (AFP)
By MEE staff
Published date: 12 February 2015 13:00 GMT | Last update: 9 years 3 weeks ago
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Authorities in Saudi Arabia have reportedly barred the sale of books by two highly influential thinkers well known for their sympathies to the banned Muslim Brotherhood.
Bookshops are no longer stocking works by Saudi Salman al-Odah and Kuwaiti Tareq al-Suwaidan, according to shop owners who spoke to the London-based daily al-Hayat. They said a notice had been circulated by the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice ordering the books to be removed “immediately”.
Salman al-Odah became well known for his conservative views in Saudi Arabia and has previously been held as a political prisoner. He has become a champion of democracy and civic tolerance since protests swept the Arab world in 2011, criticising Gulf States as playing a counterrevolutionary role.
"The gulf governments are fighting Arab democracy [in Arab Spring countries], because they fear it will come here," he told the New York Times, in a recent interview.
Tareq al-Suwaidan is a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait and is popular throughout the region for his motivational speeches. He was fired last year from his job at a religious television channel owned by Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal for his political affiliations, who said there was no room for “deviant thoughts” at al-Resalah.
Both men have millions of followers on Twitter where they have expressed support for the ousted government of Egypt’s first democratically elected president Mohammed Morsi.
Saudi Arabia branded the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organisation on 7 March and has warned imams about discussing politics in their Friday sermons. The kingdom staunchly supported the coup in Egypt and has provided billions of dollars in aid to the military backed authorities.
Suwaidan responded to his work being banned by telling his followers on Twitter they can access his books electronically.
The tweet translates as “my books are available on smart devices as an app called the library of intellectual creation”.
Odah criticised Saudi authorities for violating human rights, in an apparent reference to the decision.
https://twitter.com/Salman_Al_Odah/status/473490618598326272
Bookshop owners told al-Hayat the banned books were some of the bestsellers in the country, while some social media users responded critically and speculated it could have negative ramifications within Saudi Arabia.
https://twitter.com/abumiftah/status/473413722065481729
https://twitter.com/dr_davidson/status/473524847621197825
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