Highlights

Is Stone Pelting a harmless way of protest indulged in by frustrated youth or a serious act aimed at injuring, or even killing the Security Forces personnel? Is it a spontaneous reaction against the Forces or is it a planned action aimed at eliciting a response which can then be claimed by the real instigators as use of excessive force or even as Human Rights abuses in the Courts, to demoralize the Forces?

Quotations for Consideration

“Pelting stones on the armed Security Personnel is not sanctioned by Islam, as stone pelting was forbidden by Prophet Mohammed and therefore how can we as Muslims declare lawful what our revered Prophet Mohammed has declared unlawful” – Moulana Showkat Ahmad Shah, President of Jamiat-i-Ahlihadith – Indian Express, Mar 31 2009.

“I am not going to say to you that the stone pelters did wrong. They were misguided. They had energy; they were angry and didn’t know how to say No, when money was offered for a seemingly non-dangerous assignment. This discontentment was channeled by the separatists for their ends. For example if the separatist got 500,000 rupees from Pakistan or the other Muslim countries, which fund the separatist movement, they distributed 100,000 to each leader. They in turn paid each young boy 5000 rupees to throw stones. Those young 16-18 year old boys who were sitting at home because of schools being closed due to bandh calls by separatists, and who have little job prospects, with nothing to do and fed on azadi slogans, picked up stones without realizing that they were being used as pawns. We all did it.” – quoting one of the youth leaders of Kashmir who participated in such Stone Pelting incidents as reported by Smita Prakash (ANI), 20^th June 2011

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