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 Pahalgam terror attack that left 25 Hindus dead, I find recognizable patterns emerging from my own hazy memories of the past. 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. However, in my grieving mind there are other puzzle pieces that fit into the larger picture, of not just recent Pakistan-sponsored terror attacks in the valley of Kashmir and of the stereotypical reaction from so-called Kashmiri “civil society” (sic), but also of my earliest recollections of land jihad in Kashmir, especially the Pahalgam area in my own Anantnag district. “Attack on Development” Pattern On the 20th of October...

Yasin Malik, whose terrorist organisation JKLF, initiated the drive against minorities and other victims in late 80's. Truth & Reconciliation Part 1: Can all Kashmiri Muslims be blamed for Pandit exodus? The last three decades in the valley of Kashmir have witnessed unprecedented levels of terrorism and violence, resulting in the mass exodus of Pandit (Hindu) minorities in the early 1990’s and leaving tens of thousands of terrorists and civilians from the Kashmiri Muslim community dead.  Obviously, the conflict has extracted a bigger cost from the Muslim majority. We need to understand that in terms of murders, kidnappings, rapes, loot, and humiliation at the hands of terrorists, the Muslim Kashmiris who did not flee from the valley have suffered the most, because they had to endure terrorism  for three decades and still do. Muslims also paid the price for counterinsurgency operations, excess use of force in mob control, fake encounters, torture, harassment, an...