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APC asks Muslim countries to lodge protest with Europe

Profanity

By our correspondents
February 18, 2015
LAHORE
NOTED leaders at All Parties Conference hosted by Jamaat-e-Islami, Tuesday said that repeated publications of profane sketches were not only a worst form of blasphemy but also as a clear indication that western societies stood behind the ignoble acts in the name of freedom of expression.
They observed that, begun at the behest of Zionist lobby and US imperialism, the blasphemy had crossed all limits of human values, dignity and human rights, and it was time that all Muslim states must make joint efforts for bringing permanent end to blasphemy by pronouncing it a crime under the articles two and four of UN Human Rights Charter, punishable by death and the desecration of all revealed religions as a criminal offence.
Addressing an All Parties Conference hosted by Jamaat-e-Islami, Tuesday, the leaders from all shades of society demanded that all Muslim states to lodge protest with France and other European states against profanity. If Europe did not punish and check blasphemers, then Muslim states should break diplomatic, trade and cultural ties with these countries and boycott their products. Chaired by JI Ameer Sirajul Haq, the conference was participated by Jamaat-ud-Dawa Ameer Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, JUI-S Ameer Maulana Samiul Haq, former President Justice (r) Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, Mufti Munibur Rahman, Maulana Syed Ataul Momin Bukhari, Qari Muhammad Hanif Jaulandhry, Federal Minister Khwaja Saad Rafiq, PTI leader Mehmudur Rashid, former AJK Prime Minister Sardar Attiq Ahmed, JUI(F)’s Maulana Amjad Khan, Pir Ejaz Hashmi, Christian leader J. Salik, Chairman, Gurdawara Parbandhak Committee, Sardar Sham Singh and others. They demanded the government to hold an Islamic summit in Islamabad against the publication of profane sketches by the west and decide a common line of action by the Muslim Ummah to arrest this trend. They said Islamabad should have convened OIC moot after the repeated publication of sketches and raised the issue at UN to calm down the feelings of one and a half billion Muslims in the world. However, they said government had not fulfilled its responsibility under the fear of the US and Europe.
Sirajul Haq said there seemed to be no life in the Muslim rulers as all of them were faithful to the West and devoid of any religious sense of respect. He said, had the Pakistan government fulfilled its duty on this score, the religious parties would not have felt shy of praising its action. By initiating some action for safeguarding the dignity the Holy Prophet, the rulers would have earned respect in this world and heavy reward in the hereafter also.
He stressed that the Muslim rulers should gather in Madina and vow to protect the dignity of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) at every cost. He said this was not any political or sectarian issue, this was the collective issue of the Muslim Ummah.
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed said all Muslim rulers should have rallied in Madina, declaring that all of them were Muhammadis and vowed to stand united for protection of the respect and dignity of the Holy Prophet (PBUH). Maulana Samiul Haq appreciated JI’s effort to unite the nation on a sensitive issue. PML-N leader Saad Rafiq said terrorism, extremism and violence in the world had increased due to the partiality of the UN and the bias of the west. He said the issues of the Muslim world, including Kashmir and Palestine had not been resolved for decades which gave rise to despair and lawlessness. The joint declaration at the APC noted that incidents of desecration of Holy Quran at Guantanamo bay prison and the repeated publications of sketches in Denmark, Holland, Germany and France, and other western countries were being ignored as freedom of expression. Sirajul Haq announced a steering committee under JI Secretary General Liaqat Baloch, to organise the movement against blasphemy.