Days after IS flags at Jamia, Mirwaiz cleans defiled area

Tribune News Service

Srinagar, January 2

Days after an IS flag was waived from the pulpit in Jamia Masjid here, moderate Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq send out a strong message to supporters of the radical IS ideology by cleaning the area that was defiled.

The Hurriyat leader on Wednesday chaired a session of the Awami Action Committee headed by him in downtown Srinagar and later carried out the purification of the pulpit of the mosque, where IS supporters had waved black flags and also raised slogans in support of the caliphate on Friday.

The act of purification by Mirwaiz was aimed at sending out a political message that Kashmiris reject radical ideologies. Following the Awami meeting at the Rajouri Kadal headquarters, Mirwaiz along with his supporters proceeded to Jamia Mosque, where he himself supervised the “purification process”.

The grand cleric was seen cleaning the pulpit of the mosque, where a masked IS supporter had climbed the steps to the pulpit with his shoes, an act widely denounced in Kashmir as the “desecration of the mosque”. ’

Terming the Friday incident as an “unacceptable act by the enemies of Islam”, the meeting chaired by Mirwaiz also resolved that such acts won’t be tolerated in future.

Adding that the demands for isolating such elements (IS supporters) were increasing, the meeting resolved that the coming Friday would be observed as a day of honour (Youm-e-Taqaddus) and a united voice of protest would be raised against the enemies of Islam for their attempts to break the unity of Kashmir’s Muslim community.

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• Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Wednesday chaired a session of the Awami Action Committee in downtown Srinagar
• The meeting resolved that the coming Friday would be observed as a day of honour (Youm-e-Taqaddus) and a united voice of protest would be raised against the enemies of Islam for their attempts to break the unity of Kashmir’s Muslim community

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