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Irate Muslims take to streets, burn effigies
Muslims took to the streets and staged a series of demonstrations in carpet city Bhadohi on Monday to protest the publication of a cartoon of Prophet Mohammad in a Dutch magazine. A massive public meeting was also held at Ajimullah crossing. Members of the Muslim community abstained from their routine functioning, closed their looms and shops and joined the demonstration. They took out processions in various urban and rural parts of the district .
Muslims took to the streets and staged a series of demonstrations in carpet city Bhadohi on Monday to protest the publication of a cartoon of Prophet Mohammad in a Dutch magazine. A massive public meeting was also held at Ajimullah crossing.
Members of the Muslim community abstained from their routine functioning, closed their looms and shops and joined the demonstration. They took out processions in various urban and rural parts of the district and reached the Ajimullah crossing, burning the effigies of US President George Bush and the flag of Denmark.
Addressing a public meeting, Shahar Mufti, Maulana Khurshid Ahmad, Maulana Sajid Kasmi and Maqbool Habibi urged the President and Prime Minister to personally register their protest with the US and Denmark governments and to call back the Indian ambassador in Denmark.
The speakers expressed their anguish against the Denmark Government for allowing the publication of a cartoon against Prophet Mohammad, hurting the feelings of Muslims. They warned that Muslims would not tolerate such things.
Muslims of localities like Kazipur, Peerkhanpur, Main Road, Katra and other areas started taking out processions, carrying effigies of Bush and flags of Denmark.
On the way, they burnt the effigies and raised slogans against the US and Denmark to register their protest.
In Varanasi, irate members of the Muslim community in large numbers took out processions from different parts of the city on Sunday and burnt the effigy of US President George Bush and Denmark’s flag.
Thousands of Muslims gathered at Benia Bagh and staged a massive demonstration. A meeting was also held in which Muslim intellectuals, including the Mufti- e- Benaras, addressed the demonstrators.
