Farooq Rehmani strongly condemns restrictions by Israel & India in Masjid-e-Aqsa & Jamia Masjid Srinagar on Friday prayers

ISLAMABAD, Nov 04 (SABAH): Muhammad Farooq Rehmani, Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People’s Freedom League and senior Hurriyat Conference leader, has strongly condemned restrictions by Israel and India in Masjid-e-Aqsa and Jamia Masjid Srinagar on Friday prayers respectively, which he characterised as tantamount to the universal principle of religious freedom.

In a statement issued on Saturday, Muhammad Farooq Rehmani said that India had sealed the Grand Mosque of Srinagar, disallowed Muslims from entering into the Mosque and had kept Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in house detention for the fourth consecutive Friday on 3 November 2023, depriving him of offering Juma prayers in the Jamia Masjid Srinagar.

Muhammad Farooq Rehmani said that if the restrictions were aimed at preventing people from protesting on illegal occupation of Al Qudus and genocide of Palestinians across the occupied Arab lands especially blood bath of civilians, journalists and humanitarian aid-teams,

then Israel was violating the international humanitarian law and people across the world were hurted and they had every where their right to raise their voices against the gross flagrant human rights violations and undoubtedly freedom  and right of self-determination was a universal concern and Kashmiris could never be expected to remain indifferent to such a situation .

He urged India to foresee consequences of his long authoritarian policies in Kashmir, which was a global issue and can’t be resolved by constantly violating the United Nations resolutions and at the same time punishing the Kashmiris for exercising their religious and civil liberties. At the moment, he deplored the Kashmiris had been incarcerated like slaves and treated as sub-humans without any regard for their basic human and civil rights. Doesn’t it amount to suffocation of an entire nation, he asked. He said Al Qudus is religious faith of the people of Kashmir and the right of self-determination is their inalienable right to safeguard their national identity like all other nations of the world. The UN should emphasize on India to see sense in it as early as possible and not make the regional peace insecure and   shaking, he stated.