Naik says that his goal is to " concentrate on the educated Muslim youth who have become apologetic about their own religion and have started to feel the religion is outdated " . He considers it a duty of every Muslim to remove perceived misconceptions about Islam and to counter what he views as the Western media 's anti-Islamic bias in the aftermath of the September 11 , 2001 attacks in the United States . Naik has said that " despite the strident anti-Islam campaign , 34,000 Americans have embraced Islam from September 2001 to July 2002 " . According to Naik , Islam is a religion of reason and logic , and the Quran contains 1000 verses relating to science , which he says explains the number of Western converts . Some of his articles are published in magazines such as '' Islamic Voice ''
September 11 , 2001 attacks
September 11 attacks
Zakir Naik