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Pahalgam paradise hatred turned into graveyard: Student leader Yajat Bhargava
He said an actual Muslim will tell you this is not Islam. “This is a political cult, draped in religious language".
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Lalit K Jha - Sun, 27, Apr 2025
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Yajat Bhargava /
The Hindu diaspora community has come out loud and clear, condemning the terrorist attack in Kashmir’s Pahalgam on Apr. 22 in which 26 innocent men were killed.
Yajat Bhargava, Hindu Student Council President at University of Houston, at a recent rally said the killed tourists in Pahalgam were targeted because of their religion. He said terroristsin army fatigues opened fire on a gathering of Hindu tourists, families, students, and pilgrims.
“They were not soldiers. They carried no weapons. The only crime in the eyes of the killers was being Hindu,” Bhargava said.
He told the crowd that the terrorists who carried out the Pahalgam massacre were members of the Resistance Front, a terrorist group active since 2019, "which we all know is a rebranding of the Lashkar-e-Taiba Pakistan-based group behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks". The Indian intelligence has identified Saifullah Kasuri and Asif Fauji as the operational leaders.
Bhargava pointed out that although the terrorists present themselves as locals, “We know that they are trained, funded, and coordinated across the border. Across the line of control, the men who murdered the civilians at Pahalgam were not acting spontaneously. They were soldiers of an ancient, bitter ideology. Islamist, jihadi extremism that glorifies conquest and dehumanization. This radical minority interprets Hindu lives as expendable, Kashmir as a battlefield, and bloodshed as sacred.”
The young leader said an actual Muslim will tell you this is not Islam. “This is a political cult, draped in religious language, as heretical to its own roots, as it is deadly to others. These people, not just the terrorists, but those who support them, those who house them, those who fund them, they are radicals, and they must be exterminated,” he added.
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Bhargava touched on the past ‘bloody incidents’ -- Vandhama in 1998, Nadi Marg 2003, Amarnath 2017, Riyasi just 2024--saying Hindus have been hunted, faith-checked and executed.
“Pahalgam is part of this long, bloody continuum, a paradise, turned graveyard by hatred. We mourn the dead, we rage against the hatred that killed them, and we stand not in fear, not in apology, but in clarity, the massacre at Pahalgam is not only a tragedy, it is a test. It asks us whether we will remember men like Dita Radhikari, Vinay Narwal, and Tage Halyon, merely as names, or honor their lives worth fighting for,” he said.
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