{"id":814,"date":"2014-02-09T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/gurus-hanging-exposed-claims-of-secularism-democracy-geelani\/"},"modified":"2014-02-09T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T15:15:00","slug":"gurus-hanging-exposed-claims-of-secularism-democracy-geelani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=814","title":{"rendered":"Guru\u2019s hanging exposed claims of secularism, democracy: Geelani"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.940000534057617px;\">Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani while paying tributes to Afzal Guru, Sunday stated that Guru\u2019s hanging \u2018exposed the tall claims of Indian secularism and democracy.\u2019<\/span><br style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.940000534057617px;\" \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.940000534057617px;\">In a statement issued here, Geelani said that the hanging of Guru has become the milestone for the resistance movement of Kashmir and that the coming generation will identify itself with Guru.<\/span><br style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.940000534057617px;\" \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.940000534057617px;\">\u201cAfazl has become the ideal f<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.940000534057617px;\">or the youth of Kashmir and his hanging has given new spirit to the Islamic sentiments and has inspired people to strive for the freedom movement at large with zeal and zest.\u201d<br \/>Terming Guru\u2019s hanging \u2018worst type of state terrorism to convert the whole state into a prison\u2019 , the senior separatist stated that the crackdown against freedom lovers has proved that it is only thousands of martyrs like Afzal who represents the real sentiments of Kashmir people.<br \/>\u201cWe will continue to demand the return of bodies of our martyrs in Tihar jail and ask international community and we appeal world human rights organizations to play active role in our struggle.\u201d(KNS)<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani while paying tributes to Afzal Guru, Sunday stated that Guru\u2019s hanging \u2018exposed the tall claims of Indian secularism and democracy.\u2019In a statement issued here, Geelani said that the hanging of Guru has become the milestone for the resistance movement of Kashmir and that the coming generation will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","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=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}