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One Direction's Zayn Malik Opens Up on Religion and Leaving Twitter

One Direction singer Zayn Malik has spoken about why he temporarily left Twitter.

The British hunk turned heads in August when he decided to shut down his account on social networking website Twitter, leaving over five million followers in the lurch.

The move didn't last too long however, with the singing star returning to Twitter soon after.

Speaking to The Sun, Malik said that jibes from internet trolls about his Muslim religion pushed him over the edge.

He said: "I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in. I don't think you should stick it in people's faces. I think you should just keep it to yourself and that's how I've always been with it. I just had seen a few things that had annoyed me. I thought we had moved away from that and we're living in the 21st Century and people could accept people from different religions. It shouldn't have wound me up but it did."

The 'One Thing' star said that a minority shouldn't be allowed to spoil things for the majority. He said: "At the same time, there are so many fans on there who say nice things every day so why should they miss out?"

Watch Malik in One Direction's new 'Live While We're Young' video below:

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