New Delhi: Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) founder Kamal Haasan on Friday made another controversial comment  by saying  that the word Hindu is not native to India, but given by foreigners. 

After facing backlash over his recent Hindu terrorist comment, in a tweet Kamal Hasan said, “Neither the Alwars nor the Nayanmars, the famed Vaishnavite and Shaivite poet-saints of southern India during the first millennium CE.”

The Twet reads, "There has been no mention of ''Hindu'' by the 12 Alwars or Nayanmars. We were christened Hindu by Mughals or those (foreign) rulers who predated them.”

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The Britishers endorsed that coinage, he added, while stressing that it was ignorance to have something given to us by non-native as name and faith. 

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Kamal Haasan is facing heat over his remark that 'Independent India's first terrorist was a Hindu'. On Friday he clarified on his comment saying that every religion has have their extremists.  He told media, "Let me tell you terrorists abound all religions...every religion has its own terrorists and we cannot claim that we are sanctimonious and we have not done that. History shows you that all religions have their extremists.”