Khamosh Kashmiri خاموش کشمیری

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...

1. Feb 21, 2014 : "Unidentified gunmen" shoot dead a 25-year-old PG Islamiyat student Wasim Mehraj Malla from Bagh-e-Islam Kraakshun Colony in North Kashmir's Sopore town. The Separatist Reaction: Silence 2. March 8 , 2014 : An 80 year old man Ghulam Muhammad Dar is shot dead by "unidentified persons" in his native village of Dogripora in Awantipora Town. The Separatist Reaction: Silence 3. March 14 , 2014 : A youth Farhat Ahmed Dar son of Ghulam Muhammad of Shahgund is killed in police firing at Naidkhai Sumbal shortly after Friday protests. The Separatist Reaction:  Street protests, stone pelting, calls for  hartal 4. April 19 , 2014 : PDP Sarpanch Mohammd Amin Pandit is killed in cold blood by Militants  at Gulzarpora in Awantipore in Pulwama district of South Kashmir. The Separatist Reaction: Silence 5. April 21 , 2014 : 24 year old Firdous Ahmad Mir is killed in cold blood by Militants along with his father Ghulam Nabi...

Mohammad Sultan Bhat, a sarpanch (village head), who was shot dead by terrorists outside his home in Shopian in 2014. "Omertà is a code of honor that places importance on silence, non-cooperation with authorities, and non-interference in the illegal actions of others."  It is a myth that Jihadis did not target the Muslim Kashmiris. If we were to go by (conservative) official statistics, some 13,000 Muslim Kashmiris (not including Kashmiri policemen) were gunned down by the Jihadis. We need to understand that in terms of murders, kidnappings, rapes, loot, and humiliation at the hands of militants, the Muslim Kashmiris who stayed back suffered most, because they had to endure it for 26 years. And still do. No human rights activist talks of them.  News like this goes unnoticed. Muslim Kashmiris suffered the direct brunt of militancy for decades and are far more in number (this should be fairly obvious). Many Muslim Kashmiris also had to flee to Jammu/Delhi due to:...