Yesterday, another Kashmiri Hindu was killed in a targetted manner by terrorists in Pulwama, Kashmir. Shri Sanjay Sharma, s/o Shri Kashinath Sharma, resident of Achan, Pulwama, was shot dead when he was on his way to the market with his wife to make some purchases. His job was as a guard at a local bank.
I want to make a few points about this. Firstly, the lack of coverage. Although the killing happened over 24 hours ago, there were exactly three google results from “News” when I searched for it.
On my youtube feed, which is dominated by Hindu news, there was exactly one news video on this killing, and it was also curiously titled “Bank guard shot dead”, as if the killing of Shri Sharma was because he was a bank guard, not because he was a Hindu. A casual reading of that title would suggest an image of robbers who shot dead the guard because they wanted to loot the bank.
Secondly, and this is very important, it is time to be clear about what and who killed Shri Sharma.
Shri Sharma was killed by the ideology of Islamic Jihad, and by the Kashmiri Muslim society which has, for at least 35 years now, accepted this ideology as its dominant one. The movement to establish a “Nizam-e-Mustafa” (an Islamic sharia based state) has been ongoing in Kashmir for longer than 35 years, but at least since 1988, it has been carried out using the instrument of “Jihad”, namely Islamic religious war upon anyone (usually Kafirs) who stand in the way of establishing a “Nizam-e-Mustafa”.
And it is not a handful of “terrorists” who are going around killing Hindus and others who stand in their way, but the entire society of Kashmir Muslims which largely sympathises with, and provides overground logistical support to, this Jihad. When in the past the Indian state handed back dead bodies of those we call terrorists, and the Kashmiri Muslim society calls “Shaheeds” (people like Zakir Musa and Burhan Wani), literally LAKHS of people would attend the funerals of these men. On the other hand, you will be hard pressed to get even 20 Kashmir Muslims to do a protest march against the continuous killing of Kashmiri Hindus. I have counted! I have gone through every picture of such claimed “protests”. Again, when Mr. Sharma was killed yesterday, some papers like NDTV immediately reported that local Muslims “protested.” A few Muslims shedding crocodile tears before a national newspaper does not constitute a protest. To see what protests Kashmiri Muslims can do, take a look at these pictures.
These are images of the funeral of Zakir Musa (head of Al Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent) killed by our forces in 2019. Indeed, the funeral was so large (in spite of curfew) that BBC even carried a feature on it, which you can read here (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48392851).
Now, THAT’s a Kashmiri Muslim protest. Not 20 people carrying candles. By the way, 20 is on the higher side. In most such “protests” you’d find less than 15 people.
It is time to say it openly and clearly: we are fighting a jihadist insurgency in Kashmir that targets Hindus as part of their ideology. This jihadist ideology finds wide support in Kashmiri Muslim society. To pretend otherwise is foolish, and it is dishonest.
I want to end by saying that I am not a Kashmiri, and have never even visited the state. My relation with Shri Sharma is simply that I am a fellow Hindu, and I feel the pain of all fellow Hindus.
Absolutely Karthikeyan. A lot of Hindu murders are covered this way: the coverage itself highlights the condolences offered by the likes of Mehbooba Mufti, who, by the way, does not offer condolences even, instead she uses the murder as an opportunity to blame the center for removal of article 370. Her simple logic is that removal of article 370 has made the life of Hindus in Kashmir more tenuous, and therefore the culprit is the removal of article 370. She completely removes the immediate instrument of the murders: namely, the Kashmiri terrorists who are firing the bullets, from the picture. Wonderful sophistry, I must say. Yet, many of our own Hindus are fooled (read: the left liberals, for whom a Hindu murdered is almost good news anyway).
I must confess: I have given up on Kashmir. It is too late to deradicalize 6 Million Muslims there. I don’t see any hope outside of a separate Panun Kashmir. The Kashmiri Muslims will NEVER allow Hindus to live among them. It is as simple as that.
Keep writing comments, dear fellow Hindu. At least we can share our pain.
Covering someone’s murder with someone’s condolences.
Attention grabbing