ISLAMABAD: Senior religious scholar Mufti Taqi Usmani on Thursday condemned the recent spree of mob attacks against food-chain restaurants including KFC Pakistan, calling for peaceful boycott instead.
Mufti Taqi Usmani, a former Federal Shariat Court Judge and a globally renowned Islamic jurist, while talking to media clarified that people must boycott products in support of Palestine without harming lives and properties.
His remarks came in the backdrop of recent multiple attacks on restaurants in which mobs vandalised and burned the food establishments.
Miscreants belonging to right-wing religious party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) were arrested on Tuesday following a mob attack on Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC Pakistan) in Karachi’s DHA.
On Wednesday, another restaurant in Lahore’s DHA area came under attack after people pelted the building with stones and damaging the property.
On Tuesday, the mob attacked a restaurant in Mipurkhas, setting it on fire. Similarly, over a 100 members of TLP gathered in an attempt to attack yet another outlet of fast-food chain on M-9 Motorway on Wednesday evening. However, this attack remained unsuccessful as police arrived on the scene within time.
Furthermore, Larakana Police have booked eight suspects today who attacked KFC Pakistan restaurant in Larkana last night.
“Islam is a religion of balance. It is not a religion of vandalising [property] or hurting someone by merely getting carried away by emotions,” stated the religious scholar.
Mufti Taqi Usmani stressed that violence should never be chosen, while lashing out at Israeli crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
“Therefore pelting stones at someone or harming someone’s life and property is forbidden in Shariah. Therefore, do protest and boycott but peacefully in which there should be no element of unrest.”
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