Pakistan

‘Million march’ against repeal of blasphemy laws

Arrangements in full swing for ‘Tahfuz Namoos-e-Rislat March’, being held in Karachi on January 9.

Ppi January 07, 2011

KARACHI: Arrangements were in full swing for ‘Tahfuz Namoos-e-Rislat March’, being held in Karachi on January 9 against “conspiracies” to repeal blasphemy laws.

Leaders of Tehreek Namoos-e-Rislat met with citizens, traders, transporters and people belonging to various walks of life in different parts of city and distributed handbills and pamphlets among them, said a Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) release on Friday.

Thousands of banners have been displayed across the city while millions of handbills distributed among citizens for mustering their support to the march, dubbed as a ‘million march’.

Leaders of religio-political parties stressed upon the masses to participate in rally for making it a big success, adding that defending the honor of the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) is not only the responsibility of the political or religious parties, but every Muslim is duty bound in this regard.

They said minorities in Pakistan enjoy complete religious freedom and protection of their life, property.

The rally would be addressed by Chief JI Pakistan Syed Munawar Hasan, Amir JUI-F Maulana Fazal-u-Rehman, Chief JUP Dr. Abul Khair Mohammed Zubair, Amir Jamaat-u-Dawat Hafiz Saeed and other leaders.

COMMENTS (37)

zoya | 13 years ago | Reply what a country Millions dint march when those two Innocent boys were murdered in sialkot ???? that case has been smashed. Millions dint march when girls are being ganged raped ??? Millions dint march when innocent are getting murdered by no one know who ??? Milions dint march for load shedding ,water shortage , food for flood victims etc etc No Humanity

imkarachi | 13 years ago | Reply That's awesome .... a very successful long march in Karachi. That shows the strength of true supporters of Islam. These are supporters that doesn't only say that they are Muslims, but also follow it ... not like some bunch of people who say they are Muslims but focus on secularism.

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Afreen | 13 years ago | Reply They are condoning a murder.May God curse these mullahs.

*Let there be light* | 13 years ago | Reply thank God India didnt let Kashmir join Pakistan,What a nightmare a country of ,thieves, illiterate,and murders and rapests .....

Insan | 13 years ago | Reply I won't see any logic behind this stupid law call 'Blasphemy Law'...calling it black law would be wise..these religious nuts are out of their heads..govt need to crash all these nuts...

sikandar | 13 years ago | Reply GOD If you are listening, do something. I can see atleast there is awakening in the people here on the board so far. To hell with all those mullahs.

dil dil pakistan | 13 years ago | Reply muntaz qadri is a killer he shud be hanged , these jahil mulana protested to support him shame on, taliban supporters

allah+rakha | 13 years ago | Reply Seperate the state and relgion or else this country is going down

Dr | 13 years ago | Reply As a Pakistani Nation we dont have much time left. Instead of seriously planning for Food , Power , Electricity and Population Control or to Fight Disease like Hepatitis we are wasting our time for Laws Like Namoosay whatever and also Killing each other. Arab has a bad history of Killing each other for Power and Politics involving religion . This Arabic ideology can not give us a Peacfull Harmonious Government ,if it did not give Peace among Ali and Ayesh at Battle of Jammal, when these two High Dignitories Killed 10,000 Arabs in one day. Hassan and Hussain were not killed by American or European Allied forces but by their own close Muslim Arabs and no one came to save Hussain . This is 1400 years old Ideology will destroy the civilizations and will make our generation non-productive and lazy. No islamic country can dare fight back America or Europe , rather we beg to them, it is because of this Religion .

Sandy | 13 years ago | Reply Another coup against Pak gov. This coup will be done by mullahs under the army No one in Pak can talk any thing without permission of army So how this is possible these handful of mullahs are taking country of 200 lacs people in dark without node from army .

Kumail Akbar 2006 | 13 years ago | Reply 'Minorities in this country enjoy complete religious freedom and protection of their life, property' ... If you cannot speak the truth 'religious' leaders, can you at least not lie so blatantly in public?

Maulana Diesel | 13 years ago | Reply So they killed Taseer and now they want to rub it in!......so typical

Daniel Werst | 13 years ago | Reply If Allah or any god is omnipresent and omnipotent, He can protect his own name and that of his prophet(s). Let people say what they want. If you are so secure in your faith, comfort yourself that I will burn forever in Hell for saying that God is almost certainly an invention and that sadly we all probably cease to exist when we die. There is no freedom without the right to open speech and the expression of any belief on religious matters. And religion itself is meaningless if a person simply expresses the dominant beliefs to avoid persecution under "blasphemy laws."

FF | 13 years ago | Reply 1,000,000 is only 1/150th of the population. I don't see whats so impressive about those kinds of numbers in the 5th odd most populace nation in the world. Don't let the numbers fool you.

Azeem | 13 years ago | Reply My imagination has already started floating through the streets of Karachi. I see lots of lots of men with small brains and long beards dancing there way through big roads of Karachi. This is no less than a circus and jokers of all types and bread have gathered with a common purpose and that is to pollute the society with there venomous slogans and mentality. They want to suck away any morality left in the godforsaken nation that is committed to bring upon destruction to itself. God Help this Nation!

GG | 13 years ago | Reply what a shame

Khalid Khan | 13 years ago | Reply A Million man march for what?,the law isnt being repealed,shut down the city to show your street strengh for no reason didnt they protest on Dec 31st,and then they question why no one takes them seriously.

Mohammed+Abbasi | 13 years ago | Reply Naturally if anyone doesnt attend they will be considered non-Muslim and lynched! Welcome to Mullahistan! May Allah guide us and teach Hidayat to these bearded thugs as well as their sheeplike followers

Shah | 13 years ago | Reply More heads without brain Down with Mullahism

Mubarak | 13 years ago | Reply I wish and pray that an American drone shows up at this rally and takes out leadership of this rally. These so-called religious leaders are doing all this for their bread and butter. They want to grab power using religious door as people always reject them at the time of elections.

Peggy Gordon | 13 years ago | Reply These mullahs are crazy and their actions are going to taken your country into total isolation. Where have all the sane voices disappeared? My best wishes to all of you!!!

Ashutosh | 13 years ago | Reply Thanks God ! You partitioned of India and saved a billion life !

Anoop | 13 years ago | Reply People and General Belief suggest that majority in any population is Moderate, Progressive and relatively liberal. Dont know if it holds true for Pakistan.

Amir | 13 years ago | Reply Could you please let us know what is going to be their route so we saner people can plan our activites around it,

zeruk | 13 years ago | Reply great you are,go ahead but with sane approach

Humanity | 13 years ago | Reply Playing God and opposing blasphemy .. they think they can fool Allah.

Neha Khan | 13 years ago | Reply A "million march" to stop changing something that nobody is changing....what a farce!!

MuslimBoy | 13 years ago | Reply The govt should block this rally and stop all halva supplies to the city.

asim syed | 13 years ago | Reply Shame on the leaders and the people for supporting the barbaric blasphemy law.

Humanity | 13 years ago | Reply This is the nation of firawn -- afraid of the mullah instead of Allah !

Humanity | 13 years ago | Reply Islam has been lifted to Pleiades. Only the Messiah can bring it back. Islam is no more in the countless mosques or the hearts of the million which are temples where they worship the idols of ignorance and arrogance. This is a zombie nation that follows the mullah who disrespects the Rahman, the Raheem, Allah. The wretched hypocrite to dishonor the Rahmatullilalameen Prophet (saw) by spewing hatred and inciting for murder in his holy name. Unless people believe Allah is not Self-sufficient (nauzobillah), the Almighty Creator does not need any help, let alone help from this third class nation, to defend the honor of His beloved Phophet (SAW).

Honor the Prophet | 13 years ago | Reply "They said minorities in Pakistan enjoy complete religious freedom and protection of their life, property" WHAT A JOKE They should also take out these rallies in every non-Muslim country, Namoos-e-Risalat is most threatened in China, India, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Chile, Argentina. They should teach all Western Historians a lesson by burning the books that claimed our Prophet (PBUH) to be a political king and warlord. They should burn down the temples of Budha in Tibet where they preach using a non-Islamic prayer wheel. They should burn the villages in Africa that raise pigs. They should destroy all news networks, internet cables that allow images of na-mahram women to defile the innocence of muslim youth. They should bomb the banks that allow interest based banking all over the world. They should kill all women. They should bring a pious Caliph to rule the entire world according to their interpretation of Islam. They should convert the entire world to Islam and kill whoever disagrees. And then when there is no one left but the Khalifa-e-Rashid and his Islamic Saltanat; they should tell us what to do with "La Ikrah-e-fi Deen" - they should tell us then what to do with "Observe the Universe so you may understand the true meaning of life"; they should tell us then the meaning of "Ilm hasil karo chahay tum Cheen hi kyun na jana paray". They should then tell us how to go about our daily lives. Go for it dear Maulana. Go for it. Islam needs you. It needs your protection for God is no longer capable of keeping His word and hold the name of His Prophet in highest esteem until the end of this world. He needs you to come out on the street; He needs you to instruct 180 million people to OBEY your edicts and announcements. He WANTS YOU to kill anyone who disagrees with you. He wants you to kill without proof. He wants you to be brave, shoot a man in his back. Go ahead shoot; death is true and inevitable anyway. You are only killing a man, you will have to wait before you kill Humanity.

Mohammad Ali Siddiqui | 13 years ago | Reply Blasphemy laws should not be repealed at any cost. The government, clerics and religio-political parties should ensure that no one in the country should misuse blasphemy laws to settle the personal scores.

Humanity | 13 years ago | Reply Unless people believe Allah is not self-sufficient (nauzobillah), the Almighty Creator does not need any help, let alone help from this third class nation, to defend the honor of His beloved Phophet (SAW). Islam is no more in the countless mosques or the hearts of the million which are temples where they worship the idols of ignorance and arrogance. This is a zombie nation following the mullah who disrespects the Rahman, the Raheem, Allah and learning from the wretched hypocrite to dishonor the Rahmatullilalameen Prophet (saw) by spewing hatred and inciting murder. Islam has been lifted to Pleiades. Only the Messiah can bring it back.

Schazad | 13 years ago | Reply Taliban on the move enmasse to take over Pakistan.

Shery | 13 years ago | Reply this group of stone age wild animals will one day make pakistan, jahilistaan

Shaukat Khan | 13 years ago | Reply We demand India must also now have a blasphemy laws.

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