The blood of Hindus will forever stain the sylvan valley of Baisaram in Pahalgam. Satanic zealots dulled by the opium of Islamist hate asked, “Are you Muslim? Can you recite the Kalma?" The slightest hesitation from the respondent was answered by a shot to the head. Relatives were asked to watch and report it all back to, as they said, “Your Modi."

Several are dead, several wounded. The limp, lifeless form of a newly married man lying prone on his back, his bride beside him staring vacantly into the distance, is yet another cruel reminder of the Indian state’s indifference to an unending genocide directed against Hindus in Jammu & Kashmir.

Nothing has changed. And if nothing is done, nothing will. The murder in Pahalgam will soon be forgotten. Like January 19, 1990. When 35 years ago, some ordinary Muslims........

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