[Reader-list] Kashmir Struggle NOT Islamist - Says Mirwaiz

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Well said Pawan


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From: reader-list-bounces at sarai.net [mailto:reader-list-bounces at sarai.net] On Behalf Of Pawan Durani
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 9:21 AM
To: rashneek kher
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Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Kashmir Struggle NOT Islamist - Says Mirwaiz

Dear Rashneek ,

You need to be kidding . Mirwaiz is the modern day "Harischandra" .
And we need to believe in people like Shuddha and Shivam Rig , who
have no biases in their lives.

The displacement of seven lakh hindus from valley was also not because
of Islamist extremeism . It was just that seven lakh Pandits , who
have always been united thought of going out of Kashmir for a 25 year
picnic and camping.

C'mon Shuddha ..... We all believe you ...Pls write more.... I am
dying to know more promotions from you.

Pawan

On 8/23/10, rashneek kher <rashneek at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wish Mirwaiz could put some action behind his hollow words.
> That he uses the pulpit of Hazratbal to propogate secular thought itself
> says a lot.
> The slogan of fuzzy "azaadi" was heard loud and clear here in Delhi as
> well.I need not repeat it.By the way why were hundreds of Hindu houses burnt
> and temples razed to ground if the Azadi isnt Islamist.
>
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Shuddhabrata Sengupta
> <shuddha at sarai.net>wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> This was in today's edition of the Indian Express. I thought it would be
>> of
>> interest to people on the list, not just because of the categorical
>> rejection by the chairman of the Hurriyat Conference (M) of a communal and
>> Islamist direction for the movement against the occupation in the Kashmir
>> valley, but also, especially as some of the people on the list have been
>> very exercised on the issue of the anonymous 'letters' sent to Sikhs and
>> Sikh places of worship, which the Mirwaiz explicitly refers to here.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Shuddha
>> ---------------------
>> Our struggle not Islamist, says Mirwaiz
>> Express News Service
>> Indian Express, August 22, 2010
>>
>> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/our-struggle-not-islamist-says-mirwaiz/663459/
>>
>> Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Saturday lashed out at the forces
>> “bent on branding the struggle in Kashmir as Islamist”. The letters urging
>> Sikhs to embrace Islam, he said, was a part of this gameplan.
>>
>> “We think the indigenous nature of the ongoing uprising has unnerved some
>> forces to start conspiring against the movement,” Mirwaiz told The Sunday
>> Express. “Otherwise how can a few anonymous letters delivered to a few
>> Sikh
>> households be treated as the voice of the Valley’s majority population.”
>>
>> He alleged the letters were the handiwork of intelligence agencies. “This
>> is part of the deliberate strategy to float the letters and blow the news
>> story about them in a section of media,” Mirwaiz said, adding that when it
>> came to reporting on the ongoing unrest, media was generally not so
>> enthusiastic. “This place has lost 60 people in two months and there is no
>> sense of outrage”.
>>
>> Mirwaiz said Sikhs are an inalienable part of the valley’s cultural fabric
>> and assured them of safety. “The community has lived with the majority
>> community through thick and thin. And together we will brave the trials
>> and
>> tribulations in future,” he said.
>>
>> The Hurriyat leader said Kashmir’s movement is not Islamist. “Kashmir’s
>> struggle is not about Muslim versus Hindu or Muslim Kashmir versus Hindu
>> India,’ Mirwaiz said. “But some forces are trying to give a communal
>> colour
>> to the freedom movement. I urge Hindus,Sikhs and other minority community
>> members to not pay attention to such letters or warnings.”
>>
>> Meanwhile, the J&K has denied reports that Sikhs have been harassed. A
>> government spokesman said such reports were meant to malign the secular
>> image of Kashmiris. Pointing out that just the other day a group of people
>> had performed the last rites of a person from another community, he said
>> all
>> communities were living amicably in the Valley.
>>
>> The ugly isolated incident occurred at Tral in Pulwama district around
>> three weeks ago, and it was unanimously condemned, the spokesman said,
>> adding CM Omar Abdullah has assured Sikhs that steps would be taken to
>> strengthen mutual ties between all the communities living in the Valley.
>>
>>
>> Shuddhabrata Sengupta
>> The Sarai Programme at CSDS
>> Raqs Media Collective
>> shuddha at sarai.net
>> www.sarai.net
>> www.raqsmediacollective.net
>>
>>
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