People all over the country expressed solidarity with the Muslims of Arakan (Myanmar), Burma on Friday, on the appeal of the Ameer Jamaat e Islami, Syed Munawar Hasan.
Rallies were taken out in Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta and other major cities to condemn the massacre of the Burmese Muslims and to draw the attention of the world community, the United Nations and the OIC to the issue.
The Ulema and Khatibs in their Friday addresses, stressed upon the Muslim rulers to rise for the help of the oppressed Arakan Muslims.
Syed Munawar Hasan, addressing the Friday congregation at Mansoora mosque, said if the OIC was alive and if the Muslim rulers had any sense of honour left, they should endeavour to stop the bloodshed of the Arakan Muslims.
He said had such brutalities been perpetrated against any other community, the world press, the UNO, and the NGOs would have been crying hoarse, but no one was taking notice of the bloodletting of the Muslims. He said that thousands of the Arakan Muslims had been killed during the last weeks.
He said that the Arakan Muslims wanted to cross over to Bangladesh but Bangladesh had closed its borders to them and the BD government was leveling false allegations against them.
The JI Ameer said that since the 9/11, the west, under the patronage of the US, had picked up confrontation with the Muslim world as they believed that Islam was the greatest obstacles in the advancement of the western civilization. That was why the Muslims were being victimized all over the world.
He said, in the US Congress, the Democrats and the Republicans had joined hands against Pakistan and were about to move a bill that would allow Washington to punish those who had sympathies with the al Qaeda and the Haqqani group. This showed that the US could go any extent to achieve its evil designs and wanted to keep this country under pressure. He said that the Haqqani network was active inside Afghanistan and the NATO forces had failed to check it. The US wanted to bracket the Haqqani network with Pakistan in order to force it to conduct a military operation in North Waziristan.