In essence, Osama bin Laden's crusade to establish Islamic rule across the globe seems no different from yours.
Osama has come only during the last few years. People like me have been fighting for this all our lives. I do not want to be compared with Osama.
Your differences with the All Parties Hurriyat Conference came to the fore recently when you tried to project yourself as the sole leader of the movement. What made you issue a public apology later?
During the last four years, I have been holding public rallies all over Kashmir. I have a routine -- first I explain my three-point programme to the audience, then I ask them if they agree to the idea of the movement having a single leader, and finally, people raise slogans favouring me as their sole leader.
This is what happened at the public rally with the Hurriyat leaders. Some of the Hurriyat leaders did not like my being endorsed as a leader by the crowd and walked out. It was my moral duty to apologise to them and I did.
Image: Geelani with fellow Hurriyat leaders Shabbir Shah, right, and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, centre.
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