KARACHI, March 24: Rulers have failed to honour the sentiments and aspirations of the people, and their wishy-washy response to the issue of blasphemous cartoons is a glaring example of this attitude, said Jamaat-i-Islami Sindh’s President Dr Mumtaz Memon, speaking at press conference at the Quba Auditorium on Friday.

Calling the US a ‘global terrorist’, he said it was busy in loot and plunder of precious resources of the Muslim countries with the overt and covert help of the dictators ruling these countries.

He said the US through a well-designed conspiracy was eliminating Islamic values and civilization and spreading capitalist and anti-religious values, adding that the publication of blasphemous cartoons was also a link of this wider conspiracy against Islam and its values.

He said the US had not only occupied Iraq and Afghanistan, but was also interfering into the internal matters of all Muslim countries.

Dr Memon said the blasphemous cartoons showed the narrow-mindedness of the West, as well as its animosity against Islam and the Muslims.

He said these cartoons were repeatedly published to ridicule and provoke the Muslims.

Dr Memon said in this backdrop of local and international scenarios, the JI had decided to awaken the masses for the safeguard of Namoos-i-Risalat (SAW).

He said in this regard, a big Shan-i-Mustafa (RAW) Rally from Mirpurkhas to Hyderabad will be staged on March 26.

He said protests against the blasphemous cartoons will continue until Pakistan expelled the ambassadors of all offending countries and called back its ambassadors from there, besides announcing an official trade boycott of the said countries until the offending quarters tendered their unconditional apology.—PPI