Huge demonstration by Muslims against anti Muslim Dutch film
MIL/Yahoo/Agencies, Apr 7, 2008. Author: IR Summary
Karachi, Pakistan: April 7, 2008 – IR Summary- A 15-minute film by Geert Wilders, released in March, has created a storm in Pakistan. The Muslim community thinks that the film made by a Dutch Lawmaker is anti-Quran and the wave of around 25,000 people gathered on Sunday and protested in Pakistan's largest demonstration. The demonstrators have urged their government to expel the ambassadors of Netherland and Denmark. The film has set some verses from the Muslim holy book against a background of violent images from terror attacks and the people in Pakistan grew into rage and protested against this film.
Police officer Syed Suleman said:
"They call this freedom of expression, but it's freedom of aggression," Munawwar Hasan, a leader of the main Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami, told the crowd, who were wearing bands on their arms wherein it was inscribed: "We are ready to sacrifice our lives for the sanctity of the prophet," The protesters also burned aan effigy of Wilders.
The protesters gathered from different directions and gathered at one place and then marches towards Karachi’s main street where different muslim leaders gave their speeches and provoked the audience and justified that the film was so objectionable that their Ambassadors should be expelled from their country. One leader by the name of Hasan spoke saying :
"The Muslim world is on one side, but Muslim rulers like (President Pervez) Musharraf are toeing the Western agenda under the garb of secularism," More
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