At Pahalgam Pakistani Terrorists tried to identify by Religion and killed Innocent Tourists - Shashi Tharoor - video Dailymotion

At Pahalgam Pakistani Terrorists tried to identify by Religion and killed Innocent Tourists - Shashi Tharoor

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00:00By doing so in an atrocious manner, that is it was not just a terrorist attack of somebody

00:07indiscriminately blowing up people with a bomb, it was a bunch of people going around

00:11identifying the religion of the people before them and killing them on that basis, which

00:17was clearly intended to provoke a backlash in the rest of India since the victims were

00:26overwhelmingly Hindu. In fact 26 people died, 25 Indians and one Nepalese and the Nepalese

00:34happened of course didn't get a chance to say he was Nepalese but he was a Hindu so he would have

00:40probably been killed anyway and quite astonishingly one person who wasn't killed was a Hindu professor

00:47who happened to be able to recite the Kalima, the first verse of the Quran and therefore was

00:54was was not shot which is a very interesting message and it was very very clearly I mean

01:00for us it was not that not that there was any doubt about the motives of these people but it was

01:05particularly driven home in many cases the husband was shot and the wife was told to convey the message

01:13back that he was shot for his faith and I'm very proud as an Indian to say that that did not happen

01:20that there was no backlash that Indians held together unitedly in the face of this atrocity