Islamabad: A front group for Jamaat-ud-Dawah
today organised a protest in the Pakistani city of Lahore
against what it claimed was the publication of "blasphemous
caricatures" of Jesus Christ in India.
The protest was arranged by the Tehreek Hurmat-e-Rasool
(Movement for defending the honour of the Prophet), one of the
names adopted by the JuD after the UN Security Council
declared it a front for the banned Lashker-e-Taiba in the wake
of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
The statement released by the Tehreek said the
"protesters demanded that the publisher of the blasphemous
caricature must be hanged and Muslims and Christians should
join hands to protect minorities in India".
It claimed that some blasphemous caricatures of Jesus
Christ were published in a text book in India.
Maulana Ameer Hamza, convener of the Tehreek, said the
publisher of the purported caricature should be "punished
according to the teachings of Islam", in which the punishment
for blasphemy is death.
Leaders of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, Ahl-e-Sunnat Wa
Jamat and Majlis Mushawrat-e-Islami also addressed the
protestors.
PTI
First Published: Sunday, February 21, 2010, 22:53