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A Pakistani Muslim activist platform says it has written a letter to Pope Benedict and the Archbishop of Canterbury protesting what it describes as repeated and blatant blasphemy by the European press.
Addressing a press conference on Monday, Tehrik-e-Hurmat-e-Rasool (THR) convener, Maulana Ameer Hamza and others leaders said the letter asked them to take serious notice of their followers’ profanities against the most revered personality of the final religion of The God and bring about an international legislation making blasphemy of all prophets liable to serious punishment, Pakistan’s News International reports.
The letter from THR asked the Pope and Archbishop of Canterbury “to set an example of their sincerity to punish blasphemers and to prevent the clash between the two religions from taking a serious shape”, the News says.
The letter further alleged that certain European Christian leaders were deliberately trying to cause a clash between religions in a manner which clearly violated efforts of inter-faith dialogue.
The THR leaders told Pope Benedict that as the top religious and spiritual leader of Christianity he should send a strong message to his followers by taking stern action against blasphemers and closing down a Norwegian paper that had published offensive cartoons.
They also asked the Pope to tell present day Christians that if they practised Christianity they should respect Prophet Mohammad like Jesus Christ.
The News describes THR as a platform of 30 religious Pakistani religious parties but some commentators suggest it is a front for the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba.
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