The Jamaat-e-Islami chief, Syed Munawar Hasan, said burqa ban is part of the West’s efforts to check the continuous spread of Islam there through discrimination against the Muslims.
In a statement on Monday, he said that the strong bias of the people accusing Islam and the Muslims of extremism and terrorism had been exposed with such tactics.
French police Monday detained at least two women while wearing veils, after the law banning the garment in public came into force, reports said.
Under the law, any woman - French or foreign - walking on the street or in a park in France and wearing a face-concealing veil such as the niqab or burka can be stopped by police and given a fine.
The Jamaat chief said that after the 9/11, on one hand, the entire west was patronizing blasphemy of the Holy Prophet and the desecration of the Holy Quran, while on the other hand, the champions of human rights and civil liberties were denying the Muslims their religious freedom demonstrating their shameful animosity towards Islam.
The Jamaat chief said that such anti Islam measures would undermine inter faith harmony and obstruct the efforts to prevent the clash of civilizations, besides increasing extremism.
Syed Munawar Hasan said that in fact, the rapid advancement of Islam in the west was the cause of deep agony for the biased Western rulers who wanted to check this trend at every cost. However, he was sure that these rulers wont’ succeed in their efforts as they could not stop the human beings in search of peace and tranquility from embracing Islam.
He pointed out that the incidents of blasphemy of the Holy Prophet and the desecration of the Holy Quran had only resulted in a greater number of people coming into Islam’s kind embrace.
Meanwhile, the Jamaat chief also condemned the killing of Kashmir Ahle Hadith Leader Maulana Shaukat Ali in the Indian-controlled Kashmir and accused the Indian forces for the killing.
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