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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...

Sheeraza Akhtar, Kellar, Shopian District, Kashmir. 4 April 2009: RESHMA BEGUM (60) 31 May 2009: SAIFUDDIN KALLAR (48) 3 June 2009: NAGEENA AKHTAR (18) 17 July 2009: PARVEENA AKHTAR (17) 23 July 2009: MOHAMMAD ASLAM AWAN (?) & SON (3) 16 Dec 2009: SHEERAZA AKHTAR (21)* None of the above assassinations in Kellar by Jamaat-e-Islami and Hurriyat linked terrorists evoked any protest in 2009 or cry for justice. Their deaths were carried in a couple of local newspapers as a small news item, like "Fyi, unidentified gunmen kill a woman, police is investigating." That's all, folks! They never really explore it for obvious reasons. No editorial. No condemnation. No outrage. No cry for justice. None at all, except in * #SHEERAZA's case... When Sheeraza was killed by terrorists, NC's ex-CM Farooq Abdullah made an attempt to take political mileage of the killing, because the people of Kellar comprised of Jamaat-e-Islami cadre who were pro-PDP: https://...

Family members of Nageena, who was killed inside her house by terrorists at Keller. Many in Kashmir would recall the names of the two unlucky women NEELOFAR and ASIYA who drowned in a flashflood in Rambi Ara river in Shopian district in 2009, an accident that was exploited by separatists, multiple political interests, human rights vultures, corrupt doctors who forged evidence, and other beneficiaries of the conflict industry, who hope for a bloody summer each year in Kashmir. But how many Kashmiris would remember NAGEENA and PARVEENA? It's a rhetorical question: outside of their near and dear ones, the answer is Zero. Here's about them, the Unmentioned Malalas of Kashmir... ........ GIRLS PAY WITH LIFE FOR GETTING EDUCATION Kumar Rakesh Tribune News Service Keller, July 20, 2009 Nageena (18) and Parveena Akhtar (17) were the most educated members of their families who hoped that would one day land jobs and pull them out of their impoverished existence. Both wer...

The Lambs of My Valley I keep getting asked – “this silent majority that you keep talking about, why is it silent? Why doesn’t it speak up? Why did they not protest every time a Kashmiri Muslim got killed be it civilian, policeman, or collateral, forget the Kashmiri Pandit? If there is a silent majority in the Valley which does not support this “Ideological Occupation” by extremists, this proxy war with India by Pakistani-military establishment, why then have they not ever spoken up? Why are they still silent? These are good questions with easy answers, in fact; the answer lies in the question itself – ‘extremism and occupation. Readers are now able to connect extremism with the 9/11 event and its aftermath. Yet, the occupation of our Valley by radical groups, funded by a failed state, wanting to preserve its divisive and destructive two-nation theory has not been just thirty years old but decades older since 1947. We now call this prolonged war by Pakistan as its ‘unfinished ...

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:...