NEW DELHI: Kashmir’s All Parties Hurriyat Conference on Thursday appealed to the Indian government to let Muslim worshippers offer the important last Friday prayers of Ramazan — Jummat ul Vida — at Srinagar’s central Jama Masjid as per tradition, but there was no sign of New Delhi yielding.
India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s watch has come under severe review for abuse of its religious nonages, which includes stricture of its treatment of Kashmiri Muslims. Temporal and popular lobbies in the US have prompted US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to accept the report of the contended mistreatment of Muslims filed in the periodic report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). The report for 2022 on religious freedoms and mortal rights the world over was released on Monday.
“ Given the worsening human rights and religious freedom situation for nonages and the Modi government’s lack of conduct, it’s important that USCIRF’s recommendation to include India to be a “ Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) be accepted by Sec. of State Blinken,” American Muslim Institution said in an appeal.
The group said it saluted the decision of USCIRF to designate India as a CPC country, given that “ religious freedom conditions in India significantly worsened in 2021.” It said systemic intimidation and violence has moved from the real world and has mainly increased online by “ both sanctioned and non-state actors to spread abomination and misinformation.”
Likewise, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)- led “ government, leaders inspired Hindu-nationalist groups have supported, introduced, and executed insular programs seeking to establish India as an overtly Hindu state, negative to India’s temporal foundation and at grave peril to India’s religious nonages.”
In Srinagar, APHC president Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, denounced the repeated check of Srinagar’s central Jama Masjid by the Indian government.
“ Not allowing congregational prayers on the occasion of Jumatul Vida at the central Jama synagogue of the vale, which is flocked by lakhs of vale Muslims on this blessed day — when offering prayers at Jama Masjid has lesser blessings for the namazis, is outrageous, and against the abecedarian mortal right to religious practice.”
The Mirwaiz said in a statement that the same holds true for barring people from soliciting at Jama Masjid on the holy occasion of Lailatul Qadr. APHC said that similar orders against Muslims and leaflets being issued by authorities in vale academy asking the staff members not to wear hijab, “ in a place where Islam is the religion of the vast maturity is deeply distressing, causing great angst and hurt to people and farther heightening the conflict.”
The statement said Mirwaiz asked the authorities to drop the ban on prayers and allow Muslims across the vale access to central Jama Masjid on these veritably important and holy days of Ramzan.”
APHC said that, people as in the history, will observe Jumatul Vida as‘Youm e Quds’and Youm e Kashmir’to stress “ the critical need for a peaceful resolution of the moping Palestinian issue and the Kashmir conflict and the mortal lives they consume.”
