ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Chairman Dr Tahirul Qadri’s comesunder severe criticism on social media over his old video regardingblasphemous caricatures.
His controversial remarks on blasphemous caricatures has resurfaced onsocial media, causing an uproar.
The old video of an interview of Qadri when a Danish newspaper publishedblasphemous cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is doing rounds on socialmedia.
In that video, the Qadri had said that Sharia law cannot be implemented onany cartoonist in Denmark because it is not an Islamic country.
Talking to an English news channel, he said, “It is the legislative rightof Denmark to ban or allow the cartoon competition on Prophet Muhammad(PBUH),” adding that “no Muslim has the right to claim Islamisation ofDenmark and Sharia is not to be implemented in the country”.
Qadri further said that Islamic laws and penal system are not to beenforced in Denmark, hence, Blasphemy laws cannot be applied here. “It isthe choice of any democratic Islamic country either to make these laws ornot and decide the punishment accordingly,” he said.