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The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka
The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an
independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
party in Indian-occupied Kashmir
.jpg "Kashmir")
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
, according to a blurb issued by the Foreign Office (FO) on Sunday.
State-run APP reported that since Thursday, India has arrested several prominent Islamic scholars, including Maulana Sarjan Barkati, Maulana Abdul Rasheed Dawoodi, Maulana Mushtaq Ahmed Veeri and Abdul Majeed Dar Almadni, and booked them under the Public Safety Act (PSA) in Kot Bhalwal Jail in Jammu.
The draconian PSA allows detention without charges for up to two years.
"This all is aimed to force Kashmiris to forsake their demand for freedom," APP quoted Mahmood Ahmad Sagar, convener of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Kashmir chapter, as saying.
The FO said that such "deplorable actions" only days ahead of the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
General Assembly sessions were a manifestation of "India’s growing intransigence and utter disregard of human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal
liberty...
and fundamental freedoms".
"These arrests have marked a new low in the Indian occupation forces’ blatant and continued onslaught on the human rights of the innocent Kashmiris. The illegal detention of the Kashmiri Islamic scholars ... is yet another Indian attempt to rob the Kashmiri people of their distinct religious and cultural identity," the FO said in its statement.
It said that arrests under the draconian PSA were a "deplorable preemptive step" by Indian authorities planning to "illegally occupy" religiously significant waqf board properties.
"Apprehensive of widespread protests and unrest in the face of such a malicious move, these scholars have not only been unjustifiably arrested but shifted from [Indian-occupied] Kashmir to a prison in the Hindu-majority Jammu.
"These politically motivated arrests are clearly meant to stifle the voice of the Moslems of IoK and further marginalise them," the FO said.
It added that Pakistain called for the immediate release of the scholars and other illegally detained Kashmiri prisoners.
"We also urge the international community to take note of the dangerously growing trajectory of Islamophobia
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
in India, instigated at the behest of the BJP-RSS (Bharatiya Janata Party-Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) nexus, that is aimed at suppressing the Moslems of India, denying them space to freely practice their faith and attacking their places of worship," the FO further said.
Earlier this month,
In a report titled, "’We are being punished by the law’: Three years since of abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir", the human rights watchdog observed that in recent years, civil society members, journalists, lawyers and human rights defenders in the region had faced relentless interrogations, arbitrary travel bans, revolving door detentions, and repressive media policies.