FRANCE-SHOOTING/PAKISTAN-PROTEST Protest in Pakistan against Charlie Hebdo cartoons
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324430
FRANCE-SHOOTING/PAKISTAN-PROTEST Protest in Pakistan against Charlie Hebdo cartoons
- Title: FRANCE-SHOOTING/PAKISTAN-PROTEST Protest in Pakistan against Charlie Hebdo cartoons
- Date: 21st January 2015
- Summary: LAHORE, PAKISTAN (JANUARY 21, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF MEN GATHERED IN CITY SQUARE HOLDING PLACARDS READING (Arabic) "I LOVE MOHAMMAD" PLACARD READING (Urdu): "We are protesting against the shameful action of the French Magazine" CROWD BEATING EFFIGY WITH (Arabic) "BLASPHEMING FRENCHMAN" WRITTEN ON IT VARIOUS OF CROWD CHANTING CROWD HOLDING PLACARDS READING (Arabic/English) "WE LOVE MOHAMMAD, PEACE BE UPON HIM" CROWD CHANTING (Urdu) "O PROPHET! O PROPHET!" (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) VICE PRESIDENT TRADERS ASSOCIATION, HAFIZ MUMTAZ AHMED, SAYING: "The whole of Pakistan should display unity over this incident. We are willing to sacrifice our lives, our businesses, our children, our everything for the honour of our holy Prophet." VARIOUS OF CROWD LISTENING TO SPEECHES (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) LOCAL SHOPKEEPER MOHAMMAD SHAFIQ, SAYING: "The French dogs who were part of this insult should be sentenced to death, and all their projects should be banned." MEN STANDING IN ALLEY WITH SHOPS CLOSED MEN HOLDING PLACARDS
- Embargoed: 5th February 2015 12:00
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- Location: Pakistan
- Country: Pakistan
- Topics: General
- Reuters ID: LVA4AS5MUISOQTAFXOFH9KQ6FG3J
- Story Text: Around 2000 members of the business community took to the streets of Lahore on Wednesday (January 21) to protest against a satirical French magazine that recently published cartoons mocking Islam and the Prophet Mohammad.
Anger has been rising over the latest caricature of the Prophet Mohammad published on the cover of the weekly journal Charlie Hebdo following an attack by extremists on the magazine's Paris offices that killed 12 people on January 7.
Holding placards reading, "I love Mohammad," the protesters crowded the central square.
Some protesters beat an effigy with "Blaspheming Frenchman" scrawled across it.
"The whole of Pakistan should display unity over this incident. We are willing to sacrifice our lives, our businesses, our children, our everything for the honour of our holy Prophet," said Hafiz Mumtaz Ahmed, vice president of one of Lahore's traders' associations.
"The French dogs who were part of this insult should be sentenced to death, and all their projects should be banned," said a local shopkeeper Mohammad Shafiq.
Since any depiction of Prophet Mohammed is deemed insulting by Muslims, the cartoons have caused much anger and anguish across deeply conservative Pakistan.
Pakistan's National Assembly and Senate have passed unanimous resolutions against publishing of the cartoons.
Adviser to Pakistan's Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz has written a letter to the OIC Secretary General recommending a legal action to seek an apology from the French magazine and joint action by the Muslim community to make all acts of Islamophobia punishable as a crime under the law. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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