Srinagar: Chairman Hurriyat Conference(G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani Wednesday appealed Islamic scholars and clerics to mobilize public opinion for a complete ban on liquor sale in Kashmir.
Geelani also appealed people to stage peaceful protests this Friday against National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah's "advocacy for opening of liquor shops in Kashmir."
" Let us send a message to the rulers that we won't allow them to make liqour sale commonplace in Kashmir," he said.
Geelani said there was a need for mass awareness campaign against the menace of liquor." I appeal Ulema to apprise people about the ill-effects of liquor from an Islamic and moral viewpoint and organise public opinion in favour of a complete ban on its sale in Kashmir," Geelani said in a statement issued here.
" More than economics, a nation's development and prosperity depends on ethics . History bears witness to the destruction of nations which fell into an abyss of moral bankruptcy," he said.
Geelani said despite remaining under foreign occupation and oppression for centuries, Kashmiris "have been able to maintain a high standard of moral values."
" Which is why , having failed to suppress our resistance movement through use of force, India is now trying to use cultural aggression for the purpose through its pawns in Kashmir," he said.
Geelani said that the National Conference had been at the "forefront of giving practical shape to this strategy."
" The imprudence with which Farooq Abdullah has called for opening liqour shops in Kashmir is a challenge to the honour of Kashmiris , and if we remain silent at this decisive moment, we will be entitled to the wrath of Allah," he said, adding that "it is our religious and moral duty to stand up against the sale and consumption of liquor in Kashmir."
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