LAHORE: Tens of thousands of religious workers and leaders staged nationwide protests on Friday to condemn the successive incidents of desecration of the Holy Quran in India, Holland and Sweden within days, warning that secular Europe and India that defended human rights are conspiring to to destroy world peace by provoking the religious sentiments of two billion Muslims.

The accused workers raised slogans against the anti-Islam governments in Europe and demanded that Muslim rulers cut ties with Holland, Sweden and India and pass laws to prevent the Christian West from pushing the world into a clash of civilizations with the rapidly growing Islamophobia and systematically inciting a violent response from Muslims. They demanded that the Muslim rulers strongly oppose this ugly practice and unite to have global legislation against this Western conspiracy of deliberate blasphemy under the guise of freedom of speech.

The rally was conducted in Lahore, including that of Jamaat-e-Islami led by its leaders Javed Kasuri, Zekrullah Mujahid, Khalid Butt; of Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan led by Qari Zawwar Bahadur, Hafiz Naseer Noorani and Rasheed Rizvi; of Tehreek Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) led by Hafiz Saad Rizvi; of Islami Jamhoori Ittehad led by Zubair Ahmad Zaheer; Jamia Naeemia students led by Allama Raghib Naeemi and the Sunnis

Tehreek led by Tahir Dogar.

Addressing the slogan-chanting and banner-waving participants who also burned Dutch and Swedish flags, the clerics called it a blatant provocation against the sentiments of two billion Muslims and stressed the need to stop Western Christians from incitement and polarization through immediate global globalization. legislation to protect world peace. They warned that this apparent provocation of violence against two billion Muslims in the world was also a serious violation of freedom of expression. They said European countries showed intolerance and fanaticism in stark contrast to their own claims.