JI announces countrywide protest against blasphemous cartoons

Lahore: Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Sirajul Haq, has announced countrywide protest tomorrow, Friday, against the publication of blasphemous cartoons of the Holy Prophet (SAW) in a French weekly. He has urged the people to come on roads with the resolve that they would not spare any sacrifice to safeguard the sanctity of the Prophet ( SAW). He made the announcement while addressing the provincial Shoora of the JI, Khyber P, at Al-Markaz Peshawar.

Sirajul Haq further said that the JI believed in a revolution through constitutional, peaceful means. It was against palace intreagues, short-cuts and underground activities because the change brought about through such means was only short lived. However, he said that peaceful change required continuous struggle ad patience. JI provincial chief Prof. Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, presided over the meeting.

The JI chief said that the terrorism at the Army Public School, Peshawar, was a big tragedy. However, he said that Peshawar was the city of brave people and no worldly power could defeat them. He said by the Grace of Allah, e said ghat educational activities had been started again all over the province.

Meanwhile, JI deputy chief, Hafiz Muhammad Idrees, while addressing the JI central workshop at Mansoora, said that the fresh publication of the blasphemous caricatures of the Holy Prophet (SAW) in a French weekly was the biggest act of terrorism and had hurt the sentiments of one a half billion people in the world. Stating that the indifference and cowardice of the Muslim rulers had emboldened the Islam’s enemies to such dirty and unholy acts, he stressed upon the Muslims to sink their differences and forge unity in their ranks to safeguard the sanctity of the Noble Prophet (SAW). He said that the publication of the caricatures had also exposed the democracy of the west and France.

He said that the world at large had condemned the recent terrorist act in Paris and even the some Muslim rulers had expressed their solidarity with the French people. However, he said that the French government did not adopt preventive measures to stop the republication of the provocative cartoons.

He warned that if such highly provocative and uncalled for acts of blasphemy were not stopped, the world peace would be threatened and added that the producers of the arms and ammunition would be successful in their nefarious designs to plunge the world in another war.