This week, jihadist gunmen killed 26 tourists. For some reason Islamist diehards, supported by their stooges in British universities, did not pour onto London’s streets with their heads wrapped in kaffiyeh. I wonder why? Perhaps it was because the tourists killed were Indians not Jews or Caucasians, and the place was Pahalgam, a picturesque village in Indian controlled Kashmir, not southern Israel – so nothing to celebrate then.
India has firmly laid blame for the atrocity at Pakistan’s door. Police say the suspects are members of the radical Sunni jihadist group, The Resistance Front, an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LT) – ‘the Army of the Righteous’. It appears some of the perpetrators were Pakistani while others may have been Kashmiri. The main aim, but not the only aim of the jihadi group, is to remove India from Kashmir, a goal which originates from India’s partition in 1947.
Britain’s India was never governed as a fully centralised country.
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