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Lahore hosts anti-Charlie Hebdo rallies

Monday, 09 February 2015 11:24 AM [ Last Update: Monday, 09 February 2015 11:24 AM ]

Hamza Ameer
Press TV, Lahore

Religious organizations flooded the streets of Lahore staging a protest march denouncing Charlie Hebdo magazine’s hideous attempt to malign Islam and its Prophet.

Protestors carried banners and chanted anti-France and anti-Charlie Hebdo slogans, demanding punishment to the magazine and urging the Muslim world to unite and fight the case for the protection of Islam.

The rally stayed on throughout the day as protestors continued to pour in it in big numbers.
Religious organization leaders slammed the Muslim world for not raising a strong united voice against the French magazine. They demanded Pakistan government to take the lead in the matter and close all diplomatic relations with France.

Religious organizations have called for a legal case to be filed in the International Court of Justice against Charlie Hebdo and charge it for blasphemy, punishment of which they say is to be hanged till death.

Pakistan’s Islamic religious parties have called on the Muslim world to unite in the face of what they call a targeted attack on the religion and its Prophet by western entities like Charlie Hebdo.

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