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All respect to you and what you do i like your blog. But weren’t the victims were singled out based on their religion? The fact that a Muslim individual lost their life while trying to help others is indeed a testament to their bravery. It's crucial to not make sweeping generalizations about any group. The circumstances surrounding the event, including the singling out of individuals based on their religious identity, do suggest that religious motives might have played a role.
This is the only ask I received in good faith so I'll answer.
I am not denying that the attack was religiously motivated. I am also aware that there are some fundamentalist strands of the movement who prioritise their religious goals over kashmiri liberation and even the betterment of the Kashmiri people. And it goes without saying that any loss of life is always to be mourned, and no liberation can ever be achieved by killing innocent people whose only crime, at worst, was believing the government's assurances - made in its own interests of normalising occupation - that Kashmir was indeed safe to vacation in.
That said, you are being deliberately obtuse and refusing to see the bigger picture, if you think this was just a religiously motivated attack on hindus by muslims with no other parameters to it. This is the most highly militarised zone on earth. Before being about hindus and muslims, this is about occupier and occupied, about coloniser and colonised, about oppressed and oppressor. In this case, the occupier happens to be a hindu fundamentalist force and the occupied happen to be a muslim majority population - but this is entirely a matter of chance. As I said before, to me, it is not about who pulled the trigger, it is about who made the gun inevitable.
When I say it is not about religion I mean that once you stop attaching your identity with the religion you, entirely by chance, were born in - you will see that the language of fundamentalism is the same everywhere, irrespective of the religion. With a little emotional distance you will see that in its ideological essence there no difference between islamic fundamentalist groups like the German Nazi party, the Taliban and hindu fundamentalist groups like the RSS/BJP. Both function by identifying a particular group that they have decided to be the enemy and framing their entire existence around that hatred.
