“Manzoor Qadir, the president of the Lahore Bar Association, said that the present government was not doing enough to rein in foreigners indulging in blasphemous acts.”
“500 Pak lawyers protest against anti-Islam Dutch film,” from Asian News International:
Lahore, Apr.15 : Hundreds of Pakistani lawyers on Tuesday staged a protest against a Dutch film that satirically depicted the Prophet Mohammad and accused the Koran of inciting violence.
The movie made by Dutch lawmarker Geert Wilders last month, interspersed caricatures of the prophet and the Koran with images of the 9/11 attacks and other Islamist bombings.
Titled “Fitna,” a Koranic term sometimes translated as “strife”, it also shows an image of the Prophet Mohammad primed to explode.
Reports said that 500 lawyers took part in the demonstration and shouted slogans like “Death is acceptable in the service of the prophet” and “God is greatest”.
“Death is acceptable in the path of saving the sanctity of prophet”, said a banner.
Cartoons and movies don’t kill people. People overreacting to them do.
The protesters marched for about a kilometre from the high court building to the Data Darbar, the shrine of Lahore’s patron saint.
Manzoor Qadir, the president of the Lahore Bar Association, said that the present government was not doing enough to rein in foreigners indulging in blasphemous acts.
He demanded the expulsion of the Danish envoy and called for a snapping of diplomatic ties with Denmark.