Jamaat-e-Islami stages protest demonstrations in Islamabad, other cities against desecration of the Holy Quran in Sweden, Netherlands

ISLAMABAD, Jan 27 (SABAH): On call of Jamaat-e-Islami emir Sirajul Haq, protests were held on Friday in several cities including Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Quetta, Peshawar, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Larkana, Kashmore and Muzaffarabad and other cities to denounce the recent desecration of the Holy Quran by a far-right activists in Sweden and the Netherlands.

The protests in the cities including the federal capital ended with people dispersing peacefully. People in large number took part in the protest demonstrations.

In Islamabad, Jamaat-e-Islami leaders Mian Muhammad Aslam, Malik Abdul Aziz, Muhammad Kashif Chaudhry, workers and representatives of civil society took part in the protest took out Sector I-8, Islamabad.

The protestors were holding play-cards and chanting slogans against the desecration of Holy Quran. When condemning the incident of desecration of holy book, Mian Muhammad Aslam noted by committing this aforesaid heinous act, they disheartened the Muslims across the globe and added it triggered wrath among them. 

It is also noteworthy here that in the city, the police officers stopped some demonstrators trying to march towards the Swedish Embassy.

Addressing the protesting people in the port city of Karachi, Jamaat-e-Islami Emir for Sindh Muhammad Hussain Mehanti termed the act condemnable and unacceptable to the Muslims the world over and continued that through this act they were disheartened. He dubbed it a shameful act and questioned about such attitude of so-called civilized societies.

In Beirut, about 200 angry protesters burned the flags of Sweden and the Netherlands outside the blue-domed Mohammed Al-Amin mosque at Beirut’s central Martyrs Square.

Earlier this month, a far-right activist from Denmark received permission from police to stage a protest outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm where he burned the Quran, Islam’s holy book. Days later, Edwin Wagensveld, Dutch leader of the far-right Pegida movement in the Netherlands, tore pages out of a copy of the Quran near the Dutch Parliament and stomped on the pages.

The moves angered millions of Muslims around the world and triggered protests.