“These terrorists have no religion”: Sajjad Lone

India Today

Sajjad Lone speaks on the terror attack in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district, in what is the deadliest attack in the Valley since the 2019 Pulwama strike.

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00:00We don't believe they are Muslims, they are terrorists.

00:02Let them not do it in the name of my religion.

00:04Let them not do it in the name of my Kashmir.

00:06They can go to hell.

00:08We have nothing to do with it.

00:12It's been one of the most devastating days

00:15where you see that we Kashmiris,

00:18we have a history of hospitality.

00:20Even people who don't like us or are critical of us

00:22would always agree that we're very hospitable

00:25in our hearts out to our guests.

00:27And that identity has been shattered by these terrorists

00:32and with whom we have nothing in common.

00:35Have they ever spared Muslims?

00:38Did they spare my father?

00:40Did they spare thousands of Muslims that they killed in Kashmir?

00:43We have to, in this moment of anger, understand

00:45that these are terrorists.

00:48And terrorists have no religion.

00:50They want to destroy Kashmiris' economy.

00:52A disempowered Kashmiri is a ready-made material

00:55for all your criminal activities that you want to do.

00:58Do you know these Kashmiris, they've been,

01:01we all have dreams.

01:03And all their dreams have been shattered by these people.

01:06It's killing, it's carnage.

01:08If you look at the pattern of violence today,

01:11these people, these criminals, these terrorists,

01:13they live in the forests.

01:15They are, gone are those days

01:16when you would see an armed man, a terrorist,

01:20in the heart of the locality.

01:23These are as alien to you as they are to me,

01:25as they are to every Kashmiri.

01:27We don't know them.

01:29We absolutely don't know them.

01:31And we don't want them

01:32to smear our land.

01:34The moment the Kashmiri wants to dream

01:36of economic dignity,

01:38here come these villains

01:39and they destroy it all.

01:41Do you think there will be any soul

01:42who will be happy for this?

01:44They are the biggest enemies for us.

01:47They are after our economic dignity,

01:49after our political dignity,

01:51after our social dignity.

01:52They want to destroy it all.

01:53A husband has been killed.

01:55Somebody's son has been killed.

01:56How can we endorse

01:58that somebody's husband has been killed?

02:00We go abroad.

02:01What if it happens to us?

02:03That young child with tears in his eyes

02:05brought tears in my eyes

02:07which could have been my son.

02:08How can we endorse it?

02:09That helplessness on his face,

02:11on the wife's face.

02:14No way.

02:15There are no...

02:16These are beasts.

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