(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - A largely-attended anti-US rally in Islamabad Sunday condemned desecration of the Holy Quran by a so-called American pastor and called for an urgent OIC conference to chalk out strategy to counter such acts.
Organized by Jamaat-e-Islami, the rally also condemned U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal region and the mysterious release of a CIA contractor who had killed two Pakistanis.
Thousands of men joined the rally which was led by the Jamaat chief, Syed Munawar Hasan, who said the U.S. is hatching conspiracies against Islam and the Muslims but the Pakistani rulers and generals were not ready to doff the yoke of US slavery.
The participants of the rally marched for three kilometers on the main road leading to the parliament house with banners and placards and were raising slogans condemning the devilish pastor’s blasphemous act.
Hasan said that the responsibility for the desecration of the Holy Quran by an American pastor rested on the cowardly rulers of the Muslims world including Pakistan.
He said that the powers blaming the Muslims of extremism and non-tolerance were in fact worried over the rapid advances of Islam in their own lands and had resorted to the blasphemy of the Holy Prophet and the Holy Quran.
“If the Muslim rulers had some sense of honour and dignity, they must have worked out a joint strategy against the US highhandedness and terrorism, and cut off all ties with it”.
He called upon the OIC to summon an emergency meeting to urge the UN to take serious note of the act of fanatic American preacher who has hurt sentiments of the Muslims across the world. He regretted that the U.S. administration had allowed the man to burn the Holy Quran and the American authorities have not taken any action against him.
The Jamaat chief strongly condemned a recent U.S. drone attack in North Waziristan tribal region which killed over 40 innocent tribesmen, who had gathered for a jirga or council.
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