Only threat to KPs is from militants who did massacre in Wandhama:
Mehbooba
'This Friday
stone pelting is no Islam. Slitting throats with Allah-o-Akbar is no Islam.
Islam is the religion that came to us from Nund Rishi and Shah-e-Hamadan'
Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
________
SRINAGAR, May 31: For the first time
in her 20-year-long political career, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and
President of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday
confronted the Kashmiri separatists and militants while blaming them both for
doing 'disservice to the religion of Islam' and sustaining anarchy and
bloodshed in Kashmir.
In her reply to the discussion on the
motion of thanks on the Governor's address in Legislative Council, Ms Mufti
made unprecedented scathing attacks on the forces opposing the PDP-BJP
coalition's plan of settling the Kashmiri Pandit migrants in transit camps to
be set up at different places in the Valley. On Saturday, in her similar speech
in Assembly, Mehbooba had dismissed the separatist and the mainstream
opposition's demand of settling the migrant Pandits in their old residential
villages as "inhuman" and asserted that they would go back to their
old neighbourhoods only after their fear would go out while putting up at the
proposed transit camps for some time.
In her Assembly speech, Mehbooba had
triggered a fresh political controversy while saying that she would not put the
pigeons before a cat. From hardline separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani to the
National Conference leaders, a number of politicians had castigated her for
using the simile of pigeon for the Pandits and alleged that she had called the
Kashmiri Muslims as the cat.
"It's unfair to derive such
insinuations. When I say opposition is the watchdog of democracy, does it mean
I call them as dogs? Why would I call their Kashmiri Muslim neighbours as a cat
when the Pandits have no threat from them. Their Muslim neighbours are eager
and enthusiastic to see them back home. They have absolutely no threat from
them. My words have been obliterated and an impression has been created as if
every Kashmiri Muslim is a militant. Did Kashmiri Muslim neighbours kill
Mirwaiz Maulvi Farooq and Abdul Gani Lone?", Mehbooba asserted.
"Pandits have no threat from
Muslims. Their only fear and threat is from the militants who massacred them at
Wandhama. Muslim neighbours didn't kill them. For days together, their women
did beat chests on the Pnadits' carnage", Mehbooba, once a staunch
advocate of separatists and militants, said for the first time unambiguously
holding militants responsible for Kashmiri Pandits' displacement and massacres.
Mehbooba went on to assail the
separatists and the militants for doing "disservice to Islam" with
pelting stones on every Friday and killing innocent civilians. "These
people have given a bad name to the religion of Islam. Pelting stones and
slitting throats with a knife is no Islam. Our Islam is the one which came to
us from Shah-e-Hamadan (14th century Islamic preacher from Central Asia
Ameer-e-Kabeer Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani) and Nundrishi (Shah-e-Hamadan's
contemporary and founder of the Rishi form of Islam Sheikhul Aalam Sheikh
Nooruddin Noorani whose reverred mausoleum is in Chrar-e-Sharief, Kashmir).
(Because of militants) All Muslims are being viewed as militants. Once in
America they see their name as Hussain or a surname, they become suspects. Now
Muslims are removing surnames", Mehbooba added.
Hitting hard on the youths who throw
stones and stage demonstrations on Friday on the call of Kashmiri separatists,
Mehbooba said: "Once upon a time, Muslims used to wait with reverence for
Friday and would enthusiastically participate in the congregational prayers.
Now no respectful person dares to go to a mosque on Friday. He thinks 40 times
before going to a mosque. He doesn't know whether his clean outfits would be
spoiled or a stone would hit his head and kill him. These people have turned
Juma Mubarak into Pathar Mubarak".
Mehbooba said that J&K being a
Muslim-dominated State, the people here could tell the whole world what
actually is the religion of Islam. "We can tell them this is no Islam to
pick up a knife and slaughter the human beings while reciting
Allah-o-Akbar".
END
[Published in today's STATE TIMES]
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