Pahalgam Massacre: It's Time to Ponder
By Sumit Paul, New Age Islam
23 April 2025
The Pahalgam massacre, perpetrated by the Islamic terrorists from Pakistan, is being condemned across the world. The standard statement that terrorists have no religion sounds threadbare and ridiculously hackneyed. Why shouldn't the faith of the terrorists be highlighted? Barring Zoroastrianism, terrorists have come from all faiths.
According to the TV reports, this is the photo of the terrorists, who are involved in the Pahalgam terror attack. As per PTI, the terrorists used code name "Moosa, Yunus and Asif."
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There have been Sikh terrorists (Khalistanis), Jew ultras (Zionists), Hindu extremists (Sanatanis), among others. Islam has been spawning a truckload of terrorists for donkey's years, nay centuries. So, no need to be politically so correct as not to mention the name of the faith terrorists belong to.
When these terrorists ask the religion of the victims to confirm that they're not killing the people belonging to their faith and a Hindu/Kafir is being killed because that'll facilitate their entry into heaven and access to 72 Houries, why won't the chasm between Muslims and Hindus widen further?
Islam is a religion of peace is an empty rhetoric. There cannot be a more ironic statement than this. It must be taken into account that the attack comes days after 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Tahawwur Rana was successfully extradited from the US and arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Delhi.
Though this big attack took place after a long time, the political and security observers in Kashmir had an inkling that an impending incident of a huge enormity would happen any moment.
The fact is, there hasn't been real peace in the Kashmir Valley for the last 35 years. It's time for India to launch a once and for all military attack on the terrorists’ bases in and around the Valley. Destroy all madrasas in India and Pakistan that produce misdirected and misguided Mujahideen (individuals who engage in 'jihad') and Ghazis (Muslim fighters against non-Muslims; used often as an honorific title) like these terrorists who wreaked a havoc yesterday.
Remove words like 'Kafir' and 'Jihad' from the Quran and publicly accept that these words are the real triggers for all nuisance. Highly evolved Muslims or ex-Muslims like Mr Hamza, Al Rizvi, Armin Navabi, Taslima Nasreen, Ibn Warraq, Irshad Manji, Salman Rushdie, among others must come forward and educate the Islamic world to remove all the controversial, volatile and incendiary verses from the Quran. All these impurities in the Book and discrepancies in the Hadees (Muhammad's borrowed and obscure teachings) have birthed violent Muslims who can kill anyone in the name of Islam and Allah. It's time to ponder. Lastly, please don't call me an Islamophobic. I condemn all faiths and their erratic followers.
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A regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul is a researcher in comparative religions, with special reference to Islam. He has contributed articles to the world's premier publications in several languages including Persian.
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