Looks like the Kashmiri freedom struggle has officially graduate to religious war.
It has always been a religious war since the time they targeted Hindu Kashmiri Pandits starting from 1990, thus starting India's first mass internal exodus.
Time to take tough actions against these Islamic terrorists..and de-radicalization of Muslims of the valley should be the priority.
Kashmir was always about the religion...this started with exodus of Hindus from the valley in 1998 from of the threat of Islamic terrorists. And this is not the first time Hindus are targeted in the Valley.
This is undoubtedly religious terrorism...
I hope Indian Army culls these rats...
It was never about a region. It was about religious separatism always. Otherwise there is simply nothing about Kashmir that is distinct from the rest of our country.
Kashmir Struggle was always about freedom for Kashmir people against the forces that occupied their area. For decades, the people were not given their right to hold the promised plebiscite. The people took on the Indian forces not because of any foreign manipulation but because of the injustices done to them.
Now, I will not defend the killings of innocents are any other wrongdoings done to them. The wrongdoings done to the Kashmiris can certainly not be reasoned whether they belong to any religion.
People need to understand that the injustices were done not only to hindu kashmiris but also to Muslim Kashmiris....and Muslims suffered before the others both in the time period and in the magnitude. More Muslims are killed, tortured, raped, blinded, and what not in Kashmir than other minorities.
The freedom struggles and the effort of freedom fighters can not be tainted by others just because a small number of minority suffered too relatively to the majority.
When grave injustices are done to Muslims by the state, you can not expect them all to just sit quiet and do nothing. They will target the state institutions and military... And while doing it, there will be many cases in which the innocents will be caught. Muslims are not angels and are also ordinary people. In conflicts, innocents suffer. Yet, I will freely say that if any Muslim who is involved in any wrongdoing to the minority, shall be punished without mercy and same goes for any other person.
The freedom fighters especially in recent years have mostly targeted military institutions. Which is most welcoming and setting themselves in the right direction.
When people demand justice for Kashmiri Pandits, they should also demand for justice for Muslims of Kashmir that are suffering long before other minorities did. When the state itself is involved in wrongdoings, how can you expect justice?
Even in religious war, Islam does not allow us to hurt innocents whether they are hindus,kafirs,mushriks or whatever. In jihad, we can not hurt those who do not stand up against you to fight. We can not even damage the crops of our enemy. You people do not know anything about religious war and yet are the first to comment on it...Ironic.....
In the end, Whatever you consider it to be,regional war,religious war,war for resources,war for revenge, bla bla.....You can not dispute the fact that the only solution to the conflict is to hold a plebiscite.