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| Mufti asks PM to reassure Muslims | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Sept 26: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has said the recent events in various states and their aftermath calls for immediate intervention to avert a collision of communities in the country.
In a statement issued here today, Sayeed said the Prime Minister must take a lead in reaching out to Muslim masses in order to reassure them of dignity and fair application of legal and constitutional safeguards. And, all the right-thinking, secular and democratic forces must join this campaign without reservations, he added.
Sayeed said the chain of investigations have unfortunately resulted in casting a shadow on the entire Muslim community of the country. Nobody needs to point out the dangers and pitfalls in allowing this impression to grow, he observed.
Sayeed said the actions of the police forces of various states in recent weeks which were occasioned by inhuman targeting of innocent lives, have unfortunately not convinced the civil society of their fairness as is apparent from the media debates on the issue. The cynicism caused by these actions has only been further fueled by the report of the Nanavati Commission on the infamous Gujarat riots.
The PDP Patron said it is significant that the allegations of home-grown terror are surfacing well after the militancy in Jammu & Kashmir has ebbed substantially. There was no involvement of any Muslim from any other State in the two decade old militancy that troubled this State, he said and asked the policymakers to ponder over this fact.
Mufti said if the involvement of those who have been accused of carrying out terror attacks is established, it would be necessary for the country to go into the reasons for this sudden phenomenon. "We can't fill the jails of the country with young and educated Muslims in the hope of freeing the country of terror," he said and added that we have seen in Kashmir how blind application of force breeds more rebels than it eliminates. |
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