The Pahalgam Pattern
Everyone is wiser after the event, including yours truly. When I look beyond the horror of the last few days of the terror attack at the Baisaran meadow, Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, that left 25 Hindus dead, I find recognizable patterns emerging from my own hazy memories of the past that may well have enabled me to predict this massacre in advance and perhaps prevent it too. There of course is the centuries-old undeniable pattern of Islamic terrorism against the Kuffar — a pattern that we have become so blasé about that we now consider it a “fundamental human right” for Muslims to behave in such an entitled, chauvinist, supremacist, fascist, and violent manner that would dwarf the Nazis of any age. The Pahalgam attack is certainly not the first time that Pakistan-sponsored terrorists singled out “non-Muslims” and massacred them for their religion or “lack thereof” in Jammu and Kashmir. For example, in coordinated serial attacks, Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists mass-murdered over 35 Hi...