Hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani today appealed to the youth to refrain from celebrations on New Year, asking them not to “express their slave mentality”.
In a statement, Geelani commented on the planned celebrations at the Gulmarg meadow resort and other places and said: “Islam is not against recreational activities, but has placed limits on it.” “It is not appropriate for any Muslim to cross these limits,” he said.
Earlier, another hardline separatist leader Asiya Andrabi, who heads an all-woman group Dukhtaran-e-Millat, had termed the New Year celebrations as a “cultural onslaught”. “The real culture of Kashmir is related to Islam and it has no place to celebrate events like New Year,” she said.
Geelani asks youth to keep off revelry
