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

[Bipin Trivedi]

Dear Kamal,

Can you say what is the definition of secularism?



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Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 9:00 PM
To: rashneek kher
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Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Kashmir Struggle NOT Islamist - Says Mirwaiz

Rashneek Kher,
How dare you doubt the secular credentials of Mirwaiz?For that matter, you
need to accept defintion of secularism as defined by the
Kashmiri separatists and propogated by their apologists in India. Only them
you will qualify to be a rational citizen of this country. Till then you
will, otherwise, continue to be labelled as Hindu fanatic. B

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 8:06 PM, 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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