Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Mar 3: Members of Muttahida Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU) Jammu and Kashmir today said that Mirwaiz Umar Farooq’s continuous detention was deeply hurting the religious sentiment of Muslims and expressed concern over it.
MMU held a meeting at the historic Mirwaiz Manzil Rajouri Kadal, which also included representatives of leading social and educational institutions regarding the continued house arrest of its chairman and Mirwaiz e Kashmir Umar Farooq since August 2019.
According to a statement all the participants expressed concern that due to the continued detention of the Mirwaiz, the pulpits of the largest religious and spiritual centre of Jammu & Kashmir – Jamia Masjid Srinagar – has fallen silent for the last 82 Fridays.
The participants, as per the statement, said that this greatly hurts the sentiments of the Muslims, the masses and religious scholars alike, especially those who have a deep religious and emotional attachment with the historic masjid and its pulpit.
The meeting said that despite the recent statement of the Minister of State for Home Affairs in the Parliament that no one in Jammu & Kashmir is under house arrest, “yet the Mirwaiz is detained at home and not allowed to move out.”
“It is incumbent upon the administration to immediately lift the curbs on the Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir so that he resumes the responsibilities the institution of Mirwaiz enjoins upon him,” the statement read.
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