Funeral prayer in absentia held for Charlie Hebdo attackers in Kashmir
Scores of people in Kunzar town of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district held funeral prayer in absentia for the two youth who attacked Charlie Hebdo magazine office in France that left 12 people in including ten journalists’ dead.
Witnesses said that soon after Friday prayers, people offered funeral prayer in absentia for the two brothers linked with Al Qaeda who attacked French Magazine in Capital Paris for publishing ‘blasphemous’ caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
The people hailed the attackers and called them martyrs who, they said, “achieved martyrdom while fighting in retaliation to the insulting act of the Charlie Hebdo”.
After offering funeral, a protest demonstration was carried outside Jamia Masjid Hamdania in Kunzar. “The protesters condemned the reproducing of the insulting cartoons by Charlie Hebdo satiric newspaper,” a witness said.
Meanwhile, a group of youth staged a protest against the blasphemous caricatures outside Iqra Masjid in Sarai Bala here, reports said.
