criminal silence on the issue which amounted to provocating sentiments of the nation, and demanded that French ambassador should be expelled and French products should be boycotted.
Jamaat-ud-Dawa Ameer Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Abdul Rehman Makki, Maulana Ameer Hamza and others warned that announcements of banning JuD were being made to silence the effective voice against blasphemy, Indian occupation of Kashmir and Delhi’s water terrorism against Pakistan.
They said freezing the JuD accounts was an attempt by Islamabad to please the western masters and their Asian policeman, Delhi. Hafiz Saeed said he was writing letters to Muslim leaders against the enemy conspiracies. He said the JuD would continue supporting the cause of Islam and relief activities because no proof was ever produced against him and the party.
Other leaders said JuD had never indulged in anti-social activities, except for raising voice against global injustices against Islam and the Muslims. They demanded Islamabad to push for a global legislation for punishing blasphemy of every sacred religious figure.
Delivering Friday sermon at Mansoora Masjid, JI Naib Ameer Hafiz Muhammad Idrees said those publishing the blasphemous sketches had the backing of Zionist lobby as the Christians would not involve themselves in such activities. He said Pope Francis had fully represented the Christian world by decrying blasphemy. He urged Christian community in the country to join the countrywide protest to express their solidarity with the Muslims on the issue because the world peace was threatened by the secular Zionists.
He said US wanted India’s supremacy in the region in order to contain China and US President Obama’s visit to India was aimed at giving a pat to Indian Prime Minister Modi and to give a stern message to Pakistan. He said, unfortunately, the Pakistani rulers were US slaves and were serving the US agenda.
The government, he said, was working on the US plan to impose ban on religious parties- one after the other and to promote secular agenda. He said the US was the major hurdle in peace in the region. However, he said that all US plan would come to a naught in the way US had failed in Vietnam and Afghanistan. He said the parliament had passed the Bill against religion and the seminaries that was a step towards eroding the Islamic character of the country, but it had been rejected by the masses. He said one would pity the wisdom of the rulers who thought the seminary students terrorists but believed the target killers, extortionists and the criminals involved in the bodies stuffed in gunny bags were innocents. He emphasised that Islam is the religion of peace, love and brotherhood.
Delivering Friday sermon at Bagh-e-Jinnah, Tanzim-e-Islami Ameer Hafiz Akif Saeed said government’s actions in the wake of fresh attempts of blasphemy were compounding the problems and conspiracies faced by the Muslims, especially the Pakistanis. He said Delhi was continuously opening fire in the Pakistani territories killing innocent people and exterminating Muslims in India on the pretexts like the recent setting ablaze of Muslims. But Islamabad was freezing Jamaat-ud-Dawa accounts to implement a four-year-old ban to please Washington and Delhi.