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JI lodges protest with Copenhagen against the blasphemous cartoon Lahore, Dec. 5: Jamaat-e-Islami has lodged serious protest with the Government of Denmark against the publication of a blasphemous cartoon about Holy Prophet (PBUH) in a Danish newspaper that deeply hurt feelings of Muslims across the world. The JI leadership demanded of Copenhagen to take serious action against the Cartoonist and the management of the paper besides making a clear and unconditional apology with the Muslims. JI Secretary General Syed Munawar Hasan has written a letter to Danish ambassador in Islamabad Bent Wigotski raising serious protest against the derogatory cartoon about the most sacred personality in Islam in the Danish newspaper Jullands Posten. He said the said cartoon was not only highly blasphemous but insulted whole Muslim ummah by deeply hurting the sentiments of Muslims across the world who are undergoing serious pain as a result of that. Munawar Hasan also categorically denied the reports in Danish press that his party had announced reward for killing or avenging the concerned cartoonist. He termed those reports as baseless, misleading and a slander on the party. He said JI had never ever issued such an announcement, adding that any individual might have hurled threats after getting enraged on the highly offensive cartoon but it could not be deemed as JI's policy. Munawar Hasan said the cartoon attempted to disfigure the face of Islam in the west by ridiculing the most pious and revered personality I the human history, which JI condemned with all intensity. He said people of Pakistan wanted to keep bilateral relations with Denmark on the basis of equality and principles of mutual respect and consideration. He expressed hopes that Danish government would take necessary action against the paper and the cartoonist to pacify the sentiments of Muslim ummah. |
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