[Reader-list] Minority Sikhs attacked by Majority Muslim community members in Kashmir, yet again.

[A.K. Malik]

Hi Mr Kaul,
              This is what is called SECULAR in this country. Had a similar incident happened the other way round in Gujarat, everybody would have been after Modi's blood with National dailies printing it on first page. We have not read it in the National newspapers. Long live "SECULARISM" in this country!!!

(A.K.MALIK)


--- On Sat, 6/6/09, Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Reader-list] Minority Sikhs attacked by Majority Muslim community members in Kashmir, yet again.
> To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Saturday, June 6, 2009, 12:35 AM
> *Communal clash at Rangreth averted*
> 
> Excelsior Correspondent
> 
> *Srinagar, June 4: *A scuffle which started after a cricket
> match between
> youngsters took an ugly turn and led to communal clashes in
> Rangreth area of
> Budgam district.
> 
> Deputy Commissioner Budgam Mohammad Rafi, two National
> Conference MLAs and
> some prominent Sikh leaders had to intervene who finally
> managed to cool
> down the tempers between members of the two communities.
> 
> Rafi said a fight over a cricket match yesterday led to
> stone pelting in
> which a vehicle driven by a Sikh was damaged, who allegedly
> retaliated by
> beating some youngsters belonging to the Muslim community.
> 
> Later at night, a group of Muslim youth allegedly barged
> into the houses of
> Sikh community living in Rangreth and damaged vehicles and
> some household
> items.
> 
> Outraged, some members of the community then took shelter
> at a nearby
> gurudwara and threatened to migrate out of the Kashmir
> valley if Government
> did not take any action.
> 
> President of All Parties Sikh Coordination Committee
> Jagmohan Singh Raina
> alleged that many items like fridges and television sets,
> besides 18
> vehicles were damaged.
> 
> Situation in the area remained tense in the morning but
> later DC Budgam, MLA
> Budgam Aga Roohullah and MLA Amirakadal Nasir Aslam Wani
> rushed to Rangreth
> and managed to bring about a patch up between the two
> communities.
> Rafi also gave orders to assess the losses suffered during
> attacks on
> the houses
> of Sikh community and said the affected will be
> compensated.
> 
> Members of both the communities then took out a "peace
> march" in the area.
> 
> Rafi expressed satisfaction that the issue was resolved
> quickly saying the
> area is known for "Sikh-Muslim brotherhood".
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