A youth
wing leader of BJP, from Bongam area in Shopian, Gowhar Bhat, was murdered by terrorists in
Jammu and Kashmir. His body was recovered from an orchard in Kiloora with a
slit throat. 30 year old Bhat was the district president of the Bhartiya Janata
Yuva Morcha and had been associated with the party for over two years. He had
played a crucial role in organising first BJP state youth convention recently.
Police
reports say that Bhat was abducted from his home in Shopian town around 6 pm.
His body, with the throat slit, was later recovered from a nearby village.
Targetted killings
of pro Indian Kashmiri Muslims have really spiked up in the last couple of
years, with Pakistan trying to bring Kashmir back to the horrible times of 1990s. The cross border efforts have
intensified as a desperation post the surgical strikes and the large scale
relentless pursuit of terrorists in Kashmir by RR this year for elimination.
22-year-old
Lieutenant Ummer Fayaz of Indian army was kidnapped and killed in May by
Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizbul Mujahideen operatives. Fayaz, son of a farmer and an
avid sportsman, had gone to attend the wedding of the daughter of his maternal
uncle at Batapura, about 74 kms from Srinagar, from where he was abducted by
armed militants around 10 pm at night, right from the ceremony. His
bullet-riddled body was found in Harmen area of Shopian the following morning,
hours after he was abducted by militants from Batpura village. His body bore
signs of brutal torture.
Md Ramzan
Parray, a BSF jawan was shot dead in September 2017while resisting an attempt
by terrorists to kidnap him. The terrorists severly wounded his family members
as well. He unsuccessfully tried fighting off the assassins with an axe.
DsP Mohd
Ayub Pandit was lynched by a mob outside Jamia Masjid in Nowhatta, Srinagar. He
was killed outside the mosque for allegedly shooting a video of stone pelters.
He was stripped naked and stoned to death by an irate mob. "He tried to
free himself and even fired in self-defence, injuring three, but the mob got
hold of him and brutally beat him to death. Even bite marks were found on his
body.
Some less
talked about targeted killings in Kashmir in 2017 were:-
October 18, the body of Aijaz Ahmad Lone, a teacher from Gatipora village of Shopian, was found in a nearby village of Wathoo with his throat slit.
In August, PDP worker Muhammad Ismail Parray, a 24-year-old student and a cable operator, Hilal Malik, were killed by militants within less than 24 hours.
What is common in all of the above murders? Besides
the fact that these are all Kashmiri Muslims killed by pro separatist pro
Pakistan Kashmiri Muslims? Or that these were simply Muslims who were killed by
those who thought of themselves as better Muslims?
Well, the
common thing with all those murders is that no leftist/liberal/secular tears
were shed for them. No awards were returned. Noone saw freedom being in danger.
Noone saw fascist forces taking over.
The
oversensitive bleeding hearts who cried rivers and screamed “not in my
name” like DJs on crack for cattle thieves Pehlu Khan and Mohammad Akhlaq , thug Junaid
(who got killed by the same group he wanted to kill with his fellow thugs over
a railway seat), did not think that these people mattered anything.
Because in leftist/liberal/secular, a Kashmiri
Muslim’s death is a catastrophe only if the deceased was a stone pelter,
militant, gunned down by security forces . If the Kashmiri Muslim is a
police/paramilitary/army personnel, it is merely shrugged off as ‘bad luck’,
‘consequential violence’ or ‘internal
matter’. We all knew the left liberal
indifference to Kashmiri Pandits. Now it seems that pro India Kashmiri Muslims
have become persona non grata for them as well.
For a left
liberal in academia or media, Burhan Wani is the voice of Kashmir, but Lt Umar
Faiyyaz is just another statistic. The left liberal has nothing to say about the
Kashmiri Muslim killed by Pak backed terrorists that include people from all
walks of life –soldiers on leave, policemen on duty, sarpanchs, school
teachers, shop keepers, cable operators or any one else. Their hearts only ache
for stone pelters and terrorists.
India is
such a spineless country that the murderer of five IAF personnel (Yasin Malik)
can join mainstream politics but Major Gogoi has to justify his actions of
saving his fellow men and Asst Cmdt Atre faces court martial over killing a smuggler.
This is a dystopia where the Supreme Court cannot find proofs of Kashmiri
Pandit presecution in three decades but holds
hearing for terrorist Yakub Memon at 2 AM.
What is
worrying here is that Kashmir is being tried to being made into a madhouse of
anarchy where public is ready to attack each other. And as if twenty years of Let,
Hizbul were not enough, Daesh is making its presence felt in Kashmir as well. Its
Kashmiri Muslim vs Kashmiri Muslim now ,and brutal examples are turning up
frequently. Its as if the pro India Kashmiri Muslims have become wajib ul qatl
(fit for slaying) for allying with the ‘kafir’ Indian state[ (Quran (5:80) -
"You will see many of them befriending those who disbelieve; certainly
evil is that which their souls have sent before for them, that Allah became
displeased with them and in chastisement shall they abide.", Ibn Kathir
v.2 p.213 - No believer shall kill any believer for any non-believer.
Nor shall he help any non-believer against a believer]
Inspite of
this environment, a lot of youth in Kashmir are coming forward to join
mainstream politics. Kashmiri Muslim commoners joining the mainstream is
Pakistan backed separatists biggest nightmare. Gowhar Bhat’s slaying was
something to dissuade just that.
But the
overwhelming number of mourners in his funeral is the sign of changing times,
when back in even 1960s, political workers (National Conference had merged with
INC then) were denied burial spaces.
And lets give a big round of applause to the brave BJP
leaders who atleast acknowledged the killing of one of their workers here ,
unlike staying mum on the dozens of their party workers getting killed in
Kerala and West Bengal.
The worst thing to do post this killing would be to again
dish out the nonsense called as Kashmiriyat in press conferences and in popular
discourse. This is not just shameless, its downright insulting.
Kashmir is
a war zone, where our security forces both army and paramilitary are putting
their soul into neutralizing terror for close to three decades now. Away from
home, in unknown hostile territory, surrounded by a populace which wont bat an
eyelid before stoning to death any policeman or soldier who is isolated. On one
hand , Hindus help films like PK earn crores and on other hand they want to
show of their devotion by going to Amarnath. They create a race of midgets as
their leaders who sell them out at the first opportunity for some minority
votes.
This entire
concept of Kashmiriyat needs to be scrapped if it means giving legitimacy to
separatists and treating traitors with kid gloves.
What is
Kashmiriyat?
Kashmiriyat
is the ruins of the Martand temple, that beautiful monument on whose design
golden temple has been conceived, along with many other monuments.
It means
the same choice which Sikandar Butshikan and those after him gave the Hindus in
Kashmir, six hundred years before Pakistan backed terrorists:- Convert or die.
It means
the devious sufis who , using deceit and lies in the garb of music and mysticism
, laid the road for future invasions and conversions.
It means
the destruction of hundreds of temples, literary works, culture, dishonour of
men and women, and more than ten mass exoduses of Kashmiri pundits.
It means
genocide and conversions at such a large scale that Kashmiri pundits are today
so less in numbers that every family essentially knows the other.
It means
the amputated hands of the scholars because they wrote the sharda script, it
means having hindus pay four silver coins as a price of cremating their dead,
it means seven mounds of sacred threads of the slain pundits burnt, their women
defiled...
Most of all
it means the denial that this really happened and cowardly propaganda of a
composite culture.
Enough of
it now. Kashmir doesnt need a healing touch. It needs chemotherapy. Let the
radiation begin. The army is doing its part, now its time for the civilian
government to stop hiding behind others, and to ensure that the beautiful
valleys produce more of Umar Faiyyaz and none of Burhan Wani.
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