{"id":312404,"date":"2019-05-17T13:44:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T13:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312404"},"modified":"2019-05-17T13:44:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T13:44:21","slug":"jk-govt-bars-friday-prayers-at-srinagars-grand-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jk-govt-bars-friday-prayers-at-srinagars-grand-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"J&#038;K: Govt bars Friday prayers at Srinagar&#8217;s Grand Mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-312405 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jamia-masjid-srinagar-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/jamia-masjid-srinagar-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/jamia-masjid-srinagar-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/jamia-masjid-srinagar.jpg 501w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">J&amp;K Government on Friday once again barred the weekly congregational prayers at the historic Jamia Masjid in Srinagar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq termed closure of the Jamia Masjid as &#8220;rulers&#8217; utter disdain for people\u2019s religious rights&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIn the holy month of Ramadan also, the biggest mosque of valley is locked down and put under seige. Thousands of Muslims are denied the right to pray there. Such measures reflect the rulers utter disdain for people\u2019s religious rights or hurting their sentiments which is very sad. (sic),\u201d Mirwaiz said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The separatists had called a shutdown on Friday against the killing of three civilians on Thursday, one of them Arshad Hussain Dar, who on Wednesday evening succumbed to his injuries sustained during a protest against the rape of three year old in a Bandipora village.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hurriyat had asked people to observe shutdown to protest the\u00a0 killings. Hurriyat\u00a0 had also urged the Imams\u00a0 to raise their voice against the atrocities in their Friday sermons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J&amp;K Government on Friday once again barred the weekly congregational prayers at the historic Jamia Masjid in Srinagar. Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq termed closure of the Jamia Masjid as &#8220;rulers&#8217; utter disdain for people\u2019s religious rights&#8221;.\u00a0 \u201cIn the holy month of Ramadan also, the biggest mosque of valley is locked down and put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[1141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312406,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312404\/revisions\/312406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}