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SRINAGAR
All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Friday strongly condemned the government’s refusal to allow Syed Ali Geelani to offer Friday prayers, continued siege of the Jamia Masjid Srinagar, arrest of pro-freedom leaders Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik ahead of Youm-e-Istiqalaal at Jamia Masjid Srinagar.
“Geelani Sahab today tried to reach Jamia Masjid Srinagar, but the large contingent of police force locked the main gate,” a statement issued by APHC said this evening. “Even after repeated knocks, they didn’t open the gate.”
“Stopping an individual from performing his or her religious responsibilities is gross violation of human rights and interference in the personnel and religious rights,” the Hurriyat Conference observed.
“By doing so,” the Hurriyat Conference said, “Indian rulers and their local voices have very well explained the real essence of Indian secularism and their hollow slogans of religious freedom, individual liberties and equal rights is nothing but the age old deceitful slogans of the imperialistic mind set which they have been using to befool others.”
Strongly condemning the siege of Central Jamia Masjid Srinagar for last 4 months and not allowing Friday prayers there, the Hurriyat Conference said, “local government has purposefully joined hands with the preachers of Hindutva to implement the Nagpur agenda. They have waged war against the whole community by forcefully preventing people from their prayers.”
Commenting on not allowing Friday prayers in Jamia Masjid, the Hurriyat Conference further said, “this is the worst and autocratic attitude of interfering in the religious obligations of the people. Indian patriots, secularists and those claiming to uphold the ‘Kashmiriyat’ and Kashmiri hospitality, need to introspect themselves, as to why they can’t dare to come on TV screens to deliver the sermons on these ‘glorifying actions of their Kashmiriyat’.”
While commenting on the “role of puppet regime”, Geelani led Hurriyat Conference said, “for those claiming to be the tallest activists of human rights, locking down the central Masjid in capital city of the only Muslim Majority state of their ‘safest country for Muslims’ could be the highest award.”
“These faceless stooges should be ashamed of themselves that the grand Masjid is waiting for Namazis and no Azan is reverberated for the last four months,” the Hurriyat Conference maintained. “Demonizing Muslims and proudly celebrating Diwali is nothing but appeasement of their coalition partners, fearing being categorized as staunch Muslims.”
The Hurriyat Conference said, “these collaborators no doubt have Muslim names, but their conduct and mind set is totally un-Islamic and anti-Muslim as they ever before have mortgaged their faith for their petty and mean interests.” “These paid agents of Saffron brigade will never ever be able to dent our resolve for freedom.”
