The ancient undertaker of hatred, draped in the tattered kameez, keffiyah and balaclava of time and armed with the scythe and AK47 of modern terror, has once again risen – this week in the lush green cradle of Pahalgam (Jammu-Kashmir, India), where at least 28 Hindu lives, tourists, were plucked like wildflowers by the hand of intergenerational genocide, a horror centuries old and still unfolding, still unpunished, continues.
The protagonists in this episode of intergenerational genocide are the same as they have always been, perhaps embodied in different beings, yet they are united by the same hatred, the same ideology prescribed by Islamist extremists and fundamentalists: Kill non-believers. Kill Hindus.
Pakistan-backed Islamist terror strikes again
On 22 April 2025, terror struck the serene Baisaran meadow near Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, when four Islamist terrorists – posing as policemen – emerged from the forest and opened fire on innocent tourists. The attack, later claimed by The Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba terror group, left 28 people dead, including 24 Indian tourists, two local Kashmiris, and two foreign nationals from the UAE and Nepal. Pahalgam is the starting point of the Amarnath Pilgrimage, which is of great importance to Hindus.
Hindus singled out
Witnesses state that the terrorists singled out non-Muslims. The terrorists then forced the victims to recite the kalma (Islamic prayer). Then the terrorists forced the male victims to strip and checked if they were circumcised. Those who weren’t were killed in cold blood.
Genocide is intergenerational. Let’s roll back and recall another recent episode, not so far from Pahalgam. The protagonist? The same, supported by Pakistan, Al-Qaeda, Islamic State – it doesn’t matter what they call themselves, they are bound by the same ideology. The Islamist terrorist group in this instance was this time called Hizb-ul-Mujahideen. For the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, jihad is not mere duty but divine decree—waged until the world bows to Islam, the unbelievers pay tribute, the blood of martyrs is avenged, oaths broken are punished, “Muslim lands” reclaimed, and the caliphate resurrected from memory and fire. On 4 January 1990, their chilling message was published in the Aftab newspaper: all Hindus must leave Kashmir immediately.
The same threat was republished weeks later in Al-Safa. Soon, the loudspeakers from mosques echoed the chants of Raliv, Tsaliv, Galiv – Convert (to Islam), Leave or Perish, in essence calling for a purge of the non-believers. Hindu Pandit homes were marked with red crosses, threatening posters appeared on doors, and armed men roamed the streets enforcing Sharia.
Green flags replaced the Tricolour. Shops and Hindu temples were torched. Fear wasn’t lurking—it had taken over the atmosphere. By March, nearly 100,000 Kashmiri Hindu Pandits had fled. This wasn’t a migration. It was ethnic cleansing dressed in the robes of jihad.
Carol Christine Fair, who has analysed Lashkar-e-Taiba and other Islamist terrorist propaganda since 1995, states that Islamist terrorist organisations have consistently condemned what she describes as a “Brahmanic-Talmudic-Crusader” alliance of Hindus, Jews, and Christians. Of course, it is not a sin to be part of the Ummah (an Arabic word meaning Muslim identity/ Muslim nation), but apparently the Lashkar-e-Taiba says that a supposed alliance of Hindus, Jews and Christians are supposedly undermining the supposed Ummah.
The recent Islamist terrorist attack will be felt viscerally by all Hindus across the globe. Hindu genocide is intergenerational, each generation has a story of where Hindus were killed, how they were killed, and when they were killed. The wheres, hows and whens differ slightly, but when asked why? The answer is always the same. Because they were Hindus.
