Jamaica-born Islamic scholar deported from Bangladesh

Bangladesh has deported the controversial Jamaica-born Canadian Islamic scholar Abu Bilal Philips a day after he landed in Dhaka to deliver a series of  lectures.                  

An immigration source says, Philips arrived on Tuesday and was sent back on Wednesday

 On Tuesday evening, government officials told him at a Dhaka hotel, where he had checked in, that he had to leave the country.

It was not clear on what grounds the 68-year-old Jamaica-born preacher, who had been in the country twice earlier to deliver lectures, was deported.

However, online media reports suggest he was suspected to be a terrorist and co-conspirator in many western countries.

Bilal Philips, who studied in Saudi Arabia, is currently living in Qatar.

According to media reports, he is banned in the US, the UK, Germany and Australia, for his alleged link with terrorism and seeming to condone suicide bombers.