8. How did the Kashmiri freedom movement change from being political to a religious one?

At the time of Sheikh Abdullah, when the movement of Kashmir began, it was not a religious issue. Later, certain Muslim groups got involved and falsely gave a religious colour to the issue and misled the public to fight and establish a so-called Nizam-e-Mustafa (or Islamic Sharia). In this way, the Kashmiri movement turned into a religious one.