India, Feb. 16 -- Moderate separatist voice and Kashmir's chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Sunday said Muslims in the country were enduring a "sensitive and testing period" and there was "rising communal polarisation" which has caused anxiety and insecurity within sections of the community.

Bulldozers were being run over mosques, properties of Muslims were being "vandalised" and attacks on Muslims were taking place, the Mirwaiz told reporters after a religious conference in central Kashmir's Budgam district.

"Muslims in the country are also passing through a sensitive and testing period amid rising communal polarisation and circumstances that have caused anxiety and insecurity within sections of the community," he said, adding that "...