{"id":53487,"date":"2023-11-24T11:37:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T11:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/friday-prayer-disallowed-at-jama-masjid-for-7th-consecutive-week\/"},"modified":"2023-11-24T11:37:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T11:37:45","slug":"friday-prayer-disallowed-at-jama-masjid-for-7th-consecutive-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=53487","title":{"rendered":"Friday prayer disallowed at Jama Masjid for 7th consecutive week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_20_116\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><b style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Anjuman questions administration over undue restrictions on Jamia , Mirwaiz<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:12.8px; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; white-space:normal; text-decoration-thickness:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; display:inline!important; float:none; text-align:left;\">Srinagar, Nov 24: Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid Srinagar has expressed strong resentment against the administration for disallowing Friday prayers  at the historic grand mosque for the seventh consecutive Friday today and placing Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir Dr Moulvi Muhammad Umar Farooq under house arrest, restricting him from carrying out his religious duties, terming it extremely unfortunate and reprehensible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:12.8px; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; white-space:normal; text-decoration-thickness:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; display:inline!important; float:none; text-align:left;\">The Anjuman in a statement said, \u201cOn one hand, the government claims everyday that the situation in Kashmir is normal , but it is a pity that contrary to these claims, even on the seventh Friday, Jama Masjid was forcibly closed and the top religious leader of Kashmir, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq kept under house detention. This way, the centuries-old minbar and mihrab of Jama Masjid \u2013 the great place of worship in Kashmir \u2013 were again silent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:12.8px; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; white-space:normal; text-decoration-thickness:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; display:inline!important; float:none; text-align:left;\">Such hostile behaviour of the administration towards Jama Masjid and Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir is incomprehensible, the Auqaf said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:12.8px; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; white-space:normal; text-decoration-thickness:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; display:inline!important; float:none; text-align:left;\">According to the administration, if Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir has been released from detention, then why is Jama Masjid being targeted and Mirwaiz Sahib not allowed to perform his religious responsibilities, the Anjuman asked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:12.8px; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; white-space:normal; text-decoration-thickness:initial; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; display:inline!important; float:none; text-align:left;\">Such actions hurt the religious sentiments of the people and tantamount to interfering in religious matters, the Auqaf said. It urged the administration to change its policy towards Jama Masjid and Mirwaiz and do away with undue restrictions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anjuman questions administration over undue restrictions on Jamia , Mirwaiz Srinagar, Nov 24: Anjuman Auqaf Jama Masjid Srinagar has expressed strong resentment against the administration for disallowing Friday prayers at the historic grand mosque for the seventh consecutive Friday today and placing Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir Dr Moulvi Muhammad Umar Farooq under house arrest, restricting him from carrying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}