The entire country was left shocked after Islamic terrorists (numbers ranging from four to six) killed 25 tourists and one local horse rider on April 22 in the Baisaran valley of Pahalgam located in Anantnag district of the Kashmir valley. The eyewitnesses have claimed terrorists checked identity cards to confirm whether they were non-Muslims and later killed them by singling out male non-Muslims, who were mostly Hindus by faith. Some were killed by the terrorists after they failed to recite the Kalma (phrase articulating the Islamic faith). A tourist was seen in the video saying that her husband was shot dead by the terrorists after they felt he wasn’t a Muslim. A Bengali Hindu professor from Assam clearly stated that he saved himself from the terrorists after reciting Kalma while a tourist from Madhya Pradesh was shot dead after he failed to recite the Kalma and identified himself as a Christian. Another Hindu tourist from West Bengal was shot dead after he failed to recite the Kalma. There are many such stories and these aren’t fabricated ones as these are narrated by the eyewitnesses.

As usual, the “seculars" under the guise of “secularism" have started the game to deny the religious angle behind the barbaric killings of the tourists. Some “secular politicians" have jumped into the debate and doubted, if not completely denied, the religious factor behind the killings. An elected MLA of Assam, Aminul Islam from the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), went ahead and even claimed that the Pahalgam terror attack was a “government conspiracy". The legislator has been arrested by the Assam police after getting instructions from Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and even his party AIUDF led by Badruddin Ajmal has distanced from the controversial statement.

The denial of the religious factor behind the killings is based on some........

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