Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Sirajul Haq has announced to hold countrywide protest demonstrations on Friday (July 07) against the desecration of Holy Quran in Sweden.
Addressing a press conference at Mansoorah on Tuesday, he termed the incident a sequence of an organized campaign against Islam in western world which particularly started after 9/11, following the worldwide boost in the demand of Quran.
Sirajul Haq noted that anti-Islam elements, psychological patients and hatemongers could not digest the promotion to the message of peace and equality. But their tactics would never succeed as Almighty Allah has taken responsibility for the protection of Quran which is the final divine message for mankind, he added.
Islamophobia became a culture in west and posed a serious threat to world peace, he said, demanding strong reaction from the OIC and rulers of Muslim world against blasphemous acts.
The JI chief thanked Pope Francis, Russian president and Canadian prime minister for condemning the Quran burning.
The Pope, he said, should also play a practical role to ensure the respect of religions.
He said that the JI made contacts with the Islamic movements in Turkey, Malaysia, Morocco, Bangladesh and other countries and it had been agreed that the protest rallies would also be taken out there on Friday to convey a strong message against Islamophobia.
Siraj said the constitutional tenure of the incumbent government would expire on August 12 and the JI would not accept a single day enhancement to its time.
The people, he said, must be provided opportunity to elect their representative through a free and fair poll without any delay in the national vote.
The masses, he said, wanted to see the role of the institutions apolitical. The establishment, the election commission and the judiciary, he said, should obey the constitution and should not make any interference in political affairs.
