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Muslim shrine bans entry of tourists looking for Jesus

SRINAGAR: Foreign tourists have been banned from entering a Muslim shrine in Kashmir due to increasing curiosity about a theory that it contains the body of Jesus Christ.
The shrine in Srinagar is the focus of speculation that Christ survived the crucifixion and died later in Kashmir, a belief fanned by popular books such as Jesus Lived In India by German author Holger Kersten.
This Easter, for the first time, travellers to Srinagar will be kept out of the shrine — which is conventionally said to hold the remains of medieval Muslim saint Yuz Asaf — after the gates were locked to outsiders several months ago.
Mohammed Amin Ringshawl, in charge of the shrine, said the attention that it receives was unwelcome and that local people resented the presence of inquisitive foreigners. "It is the work of people associated with the tourist trade. They are misleading visitors and making them believe that Jesus was buried here," he told AFP.
"Locals ask why Westerners visit this shrine and not other shrines in Kashmir. To avoid any trouble we decided to shut the shrine for Westerners who were offending sentiments," he said.
The idea that the Rozabal shrine, as it is known, contains the body of Christ has existed for at least 100 years. But the controversy has now been included in the latest edition of best-selling international guidebook Lonely Planet, alerting many visitors who travel to Kashmir.
Kersten, who specialises in contentious Christian history, champions the belief that Christ, when a young man, travelled to India and studied Buddhism, and then returned to the country after surviving the crucifixion.
Ringshawl, like all residents of Srinagar, was outraged by suggestions some years ago that the issue could be solved by exhuming the remains for DNA testing, to check for Jewish ancestry and carbon dating.
"We will never allow that. That will amount to desecrating the shrine," he said.

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