2025 Pahalgam attack

"Deeply disturbing news out of Kashmir. The United States stands strong with India against Terrorism. We pray for the souls of those lost, and for the recovery of the injured. Prime Minister Modi, and the incredible people of India, have our full support and deepest sympathies. Our hearts are with you all!."

"When Hindus are killed, the story must always be reframed - not as religious persecution or ideological terror, but as a part of some nebulous, ongoing "tension",.. The victim's are quietly transformed into faceless statistics, stripped of religion, identity and dignity; the perpetrators are softly described as "unknown assailants" or "radicals with grievances", and terrorism itself is neutered into a regrettable but unavoidable "incident"..... it is bias - deliberate and sustained - the kind that recasts murderers into misunderstood actors in a conflict too complex for moral clarity, and victim's into inconvenient footnotes. In the global newsroom's carefully maintained hierarchy of grief, Hindu lives occupy a peculiar space : simultaneously too privileged to be mourned and too politically awkward to be acknowledged. If 26 Jews had been murdered in Paris or 26 Christians had been slaughtered on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka or 26 LGBTQ club-goers had been gunned down in Orlando, there would have been no hesitation in calling it terrorism; the candles would have been lit, the headlines would have screamed, and the op-eds would have poured in, demanding justice, vengeance and global soul-searching.... But when Hindus are massacred, they are quietly demoted to statistics; they are flattened into "tensions", buried under euphemisms, and met with the kind of silence that speaks louder than any headline."

"“We were having bhelpuri and they shot my husband. One man came and said that he is perhaps not a Muslim and they shot him,” said the woman in Hindi."

"“They asked my father to come out. Then accused us of supporting Prime Minister Modi. They claimed they don't kill innocent people (women, children) as if to justify what they were about to do,” she said. When Santosh failed to recite an Islamic verse, what Asavari believes was the Kalma, they shot him three times: once in the head, once behind the ear, and once in the back. Her uncle Kaustubh, crouched next to her, was riddled with bullets next. “There was nobody to help. No police, no army, they arrived 20 minutes too late,” she said. “Even some locals nearby began reciting Islamic verses aloud.”"

""My husband didn't know Kalma and admitted he was a Hindu. That is when the man shot him. He fell on the grass. I just sat there next to him clutching my son, watching him die in front of my eyes as the men walked away and stopped another couple," said Sohini in a disturbingly calm voice."