Lahore, Karachi, and Islamabad: Thousands of women across the country joined the rallies in support of their right to observe Hijab, on the occasion of the world Hijab Day on Tuesday. An appeal for observing the Hijab Day in a befitting manner had been made by the Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Syed Munawar Hasan. Rallies were organized by the JI Women wing in major cities including Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad. The rally in the Punjab capital was held outside the Lahore Press Club and was led by the President, Women and Family Commission of the JI, Begum Samiah Raheel Qazi, assistant Secretary General, JI, Women wing, Aafia Sarwar and deputy chief, women wing, Lahore, Zubaida Jabeen. The participants carried placards and banners stressing their right to observe Hijab and denouncing the campaign against Hijab from the western and secular lobbies.
JI Secretary General, Liaqat Baloch, addressing the rally, said that the western society had deprived the women of their right to observe Hijab in the name of women rights and liberalism, which had ruined both the family system and the society in the west. He said that Hijab and Purdah were in fact, the real asset of the women and ensured the proper upbringing of the children.
He said that the use of the women for commercial purposes had virtually ruined the western society. But unfortunately, he said, the Pakistani rulers, blindly copying the west and in order to please their foreign masters, wanted to exploit the women folk in the name of women emancipation and women’s rights. However, he said, the JI would continue its struggle for the protection of women rights and the enforcement of the Islamic system as well.
He said that the US and its allies were on the run from this region and the JI and the Islam lovers would also compel their agents to flee from the area. The westernized NGOs, he said, were busy in propaganda against Islam but the JI wanted the freedom for all religions in this country in accordance with the constitution and the law. All efforts to target Islam would however, be foiled.
Liaqat Baloch said that the extremists in the west were hurting the sentiments of the Muslims by blaming Islam of terrorism and by desecrating the Holy Quran and publishing blasphemous caricatures.
JI Lahore chief, Amirul Azeem, speaking on the occasion, said that France which claimed to be champion of human rights, had denied the Muslim women the right to observe Hijab. However, he was sure that all such tactics would prove counterproductive and Islam would remain on the march in the West as well.
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