SRINAGAR: Local residents on Wednesday staged a protest against a school run by an NGO, accusing its management of converting Muslim youth to Christianity.
The area is tense, residents say.
Hundreds of locals took to the streets in Shivpora locality near the army cantonment demanding action against the management of the school saying it included two Christian missionaries, Thomas and Aloro Miller.
They said the duo were proselytisers and converted or tried to convert their Muslim students to Christianity.
The police have, however, denied the reports of proselytism.
“These are rumours, there was a skirmish, but it was over a minor issue which has been sorted out,” Station House Officer, RamMunshi Bagh, Nazir Ahmed told freepress.
He also denied reports that the duo have been arrested.
Christian missionaries in Kashmir were in news two years ago when the Grand Mufti, Basheeruddin Ahmed issued a fatwa against two of them and ordered them to leave Kashmir.
The fatwa came after a video emerged on the internet showing one of the two missionaries baptising Kashmiri Muslim youth.
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