Indian Army deployed after Shia-Sunni clashes in Kashmir.

[JanjaWeed]

Is this is what you call spillover effect?

 

[naveen mishra]

Nothing new, last year they burned down a Shia imambargah in Kashmir. Shia persecution in Kashmir is centuries old.

Shias of Kashmir: Socio-Political Dilemmas | Kashmir Observer

Majority of Shia Kashmiris today are pro India, and many are in the Army are J&K Police and government services.

every buddy know india shia is very good

 

[FarazUSA]

Here is an article from Praveen Swami

Why a few harsh words have lit a communal fire in Kashmir's Badgam - Firstpost

No one seems sure just what their name was, the two young men who began arguing at the side of the road by last Thursday evening after their vehicles brushed each other. This everyone remembers, though: one used harsh words for the Shi’a faith, or perhaps it was for the Sunni faith. There was a scuffle at a place called Khomeini Chowk, and then they went home.

It took just those words, though, to light fires that have destroyed lives.

Early the next morning, stone-throwing mobs confronted each other in half a dozen villages. In Payrus and in Sahipora, local police have told Firstpost, over a dozen homes and a Shi’a Imambara have been burned down. Fatima Mir, an elderly woman, is in critical care, battling for her life because of head injuries.

For the first time in years, troops from three battalions of the Indian Army’s Rashtriya Rifles regiment have been out on Badgam’s streets.

The clashes that have led to curfew being imposed across the central Kashmir district of Badgam, bang next to Srinagar, and home to a significant part of the state’s Shi’a minority, aren’t big enough to attract attention in the national media. Everything has a context, though—and it’s the context to the communal violence in Badgam that’s more significant than the rioting itself.

For decades—even centuries—there’s been low-grade sectarian skirmishes in Kashmir, mostly signifying nothing more than the human capacity for violence over petty differences. In recent years, though, these skirmishes have shown a worrying uptick: tension flared up across Badgam in 2011 after a cellphone sex-clip of a Shi’a girl and Sunni boy surfaced, and there was violence between members of the two religious groups in Srinagar’s Hawal area last year.

Like such violence across South Asia, the tensions have as much to do with politics as with faith. Home to Muhammad Yusuf Shah, the fugitive head of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Badgam once had a powerful Islamist presence. In recent years, as the jihad in Jammu and Kashmir has waned, the Jamaat’s reach and influence has declined—and new religious organisations have begun jostling for influence.

The pietist Tablighi Jama’at, arguably the largest neo-fundamentalist proselytising organisation in the world, has struck roots—helped by the setting spanking-new seminaries affiliated to the great Dar-ul-Uloom at Deoband, including Maulvi Abdur Rashid’s Dar-ul-Ulom Bilalia and Mufti Nazir Ahmad Qasmi’s Dar-ul-Uloom Rahimia.

Kashmir’s Barelvi tradition, hard-hit by violence attributed to Mr Shah’s Hizb and the Lashkar-e-Taiba, is also showing signs of revival: preachers like Ghulam Rasool Hami, head of the influential Karavan-e-Islami, and Abdul Rashid Dawoodi draw large audiences.

It’s hard to say just who will win this battle for hearts and minds—but the Deobandis have been adroit in putting their Barelvi opponents on the backfoot.

Evidence of a tide of religiosity emerged in recent survey of media use by young people by the New Delhi-based Institute for Research on India and International Studies: more than 61% of young people regularly listened to religious sermons; a quarter to ****** speeches.

Fascinatingly, the communal violence in Badgam found reference in the Syrian jihadist group Jabhat al-Nusra’s Twitter feed-a sign of the new kinds of transnational political currents feeding Islamism in Kashmir.




Kashmir’s Shi’a population have mostly been bystanders to this religious competition—but the rising tide of religiosity is fuelling fears, especially given the regional context. The assassination of National Conference-affiliated Shi’a leader Aga Syed Mehdi in 2000 highlighted the ideological strains: Islamist groups like the Dukhtaran-e- Millat, as also the political outfits like the Islamic Students League and the Muslim League even lashed out at secessionist leaders for attending his last rites.

Curfew in Kashmir. AFPCurfew in Kashmir. AFP
In part, the fears are driven by the fate of Shi’a in Pakistan—where terrorists claiming ideological affiliation to the Deobandi tradition have been slaughtering members of the community. Murtaza Haider, a scholar, noted in recent commentary, hundreds of not thousands of Shi’a have been butchered; “taken off buses, lined up, and gunned down”.

Hermann Kreutzman, an expert on Pakistan’s Northern Areas, has recorded that this violence was linked to it’s government’s sponsorship Sunni jihadists to counter Iranian influence. In 1988, former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf presided over a large scale slaughter of Shi’a in Gilgit, part of pre-1947 Jammu an Kashmir; he is still referred to locally as “the Butcher of Gilgit”.

Kashmir’s Shi’a leadership has long feared the consequences of ****** terrorism might have for the community: in the 1990s, its leadership even sponsored a militia to cushion against the possibility of an Islamist victory. Elements of the Shi’a community have also drawn ever closer to the state: in 2009, hundreds turned out to mourn Shabbir Malik, a local boy who died alongside other Indian troops fighting jihadists.

“I don’t think”, says Badgam superintendent of police Muhammad Irshad, “that we should read too much into the violence. Kashmir’s religious sects have lived alongside each other for centuries”.

He’s right, but the Badgam violence is interesting none the less: a small symptom of a society and region going through a complex and fraught transition, the outcome of which no-one can predict.

Dunno if it is true or not.

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

wtf.........

no more sectarian conflict in India, please...Thank god, no one is seriously injured..

 

[Hulk]

Army Columns have been deployed in the town of Budgam in Jammu & Kashmir after clashes broke out between Shias and Sunnis over the construction of a village road.

Though nobody has been killed or badly/seriously hurt in the clashes some houses have been damaged.

The situtation is totally under control now.

Some say the clashes broke out after a heated debate over Syrian Civil War.

Sources: Outlook,PTI,IANS etc.

See I consider Kashmir people into category who do not know their priorities. Some people unnecessary get involved in things of least concern to them. To start fighting on Syria is stupidity exemplified. In this sense people of Kashmir actually share a lot with our neighbors maybe being geographically closer to them. Conspiracy theorist are in plenty in Kashmir.

 

[third eye]

Army Columns have been deployed in the town of Budgam in Jammu & Kashmir after clashes broke out between Shias and Sunnis over the construction of a village road.

Though nobody has been killed or badly/seriously hurt in the clashes some houses have been damaged.

The situtation is totally under control now.

Some say the clashes broke out after a heated debate over Syrian Civil War.

Sources: Outlook,PTI,IANS etc.

Chalo ji.. There is a problem in Syria - a place most of us will not be able to spot on a map because we dont even know where it is..

Lets burn each others homes down ..time to pass hoga.

 

[Ilyas naik]

It is intresting to know at what time it happened.when whole jandk was protesting against descreation of holy quran and killing of 7 civilians by indian army.now u can guess who is behind it

 

[Roybot]

It is intresting to know at what time it happened.when whole jandk was protesting against descreation of holy quran and killing of 7 civilians by indian army.now u can guess who is behind it

Yes of course the innocent sunni kashmiris can't hurt an insect, look what your leader Yasin Malik said last year.

“Today our hearts bleed when we see our mosques, Imam Baargah’s and houses being destroyed, not by any outsider or enemy but by our own Muslims here and there,” Malik said, adding that it is painful to see that people who all claim to be followers of last messenger of Allah are fighting, torturing, killing, attacking and destroying each other with impunity.

Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/centra...shia-sunni-clashes-kashmir.html#ixzz2a4YmICU7

There is no proof of Quran desecration, it was a propaganda orchestrated by militants.

 

[--,-'{@]

ok now fight till the last man standing u 2 sects.

 

[doremon]

divide and rule i love it...

 

[Ilyas naik]

This time its the Sunnis who are on the receiving end. It started with a petty quarrel between two cab drivers and soon turned sectarian. There were many houses and vehicles burnt. The sunnis are alleging that the CRPF is siding with shias.

ok now fight till the last man standing u 2 sects.

we r muslims first then whatever u like to call us. We worship ALLAH. We have one quran one prophet and ofcourse our mission is one to convert whole world to muslim land and we r nt like hindus who worship thousands of gODS

 

[Aka123]

we r muslims first then whatever u like to call us. We worship ALLAH. We have one quran one prophet and ofcourse our mission is one to convert whole world to muslim land and we r nt like hindus who worship thousands of gODS

Don't try the bold part as you'll fail. Think how you'll feel if someone makes similar comments on your religion. At that time you'll start abusing.

 

[Ilyas naik]

@ doremon kashmir is not syria nor it is iraq

 

[Black Widow]

Indian govt must save Indian Shias.... Indian Shias must be protected from enemies..

So Shia sunni is started in India also. It is happening allover the world. How India can remain untouched from it?

Shia Sunni conflict were common in Uttar Pradesh (Sunni Majority ), Indian govt tighten the noose on miscreants, This is how we saved Shias...

 

[Ilyas naik]

@ AKA123 SORRY BROTHER FOR HURTING UR FEELINGS.I HAVE RESPECT FOr hinduism as my ancestors were also hindus .