Amsterdam (August 31, 2018): Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders has cancelled the planned blasphemous caricature competition that sparked protests in the Muslim world.
According to the details, Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders says he has cancelled a planned blasphemous caricatures contest following “death threats and concerns other people could be put at risk”.
In a statement on Thursday, Wilders said he has decided “not to let the cartoon contest go ahead.”
— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) August 30, 2018
“The threats resulting from the cartoon contest are running out of control,” Wilders said in the statement he also shared on his Twitter account.
Whereas Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan has called for the expulsion of the Dutch ambassador as it launched a protest against the cartoon competition on Wednesday.
Earlier in the day, Pakistan’s Premier Imran Khan, in a video message, criticised the Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders’ announcement to hold a competition of blasphemous caricatures, saying the act was hurting the sentiments of Muslims living all around the world.
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The premier said that people living in the western countries don’t understand the feelings and religious sentiments of Muslims, “because we have never tried to explain to them how we value our religion”.
PM Khan urged all Muslim countries to use the platform of the United Nations to convey to the western world how Muslims feel when their religious sentiments are repeatedly hurt.
In his video message, the premier also announced that Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has already started to get in touch with the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) members.
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