Trying To Cause Communal Unrest’: Karnataka Muslims Protest J&K Attack

A large group of Muslims protested in Karnataka’s Tumkur and highlighted that the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir, in which 26 people were killed, was an attempt to cause communal unrest in the country.

Several tourists who were at the hilltop meadow in Baisaran near Pahagam on Tuesday have said the terrorists asked people their religion and used the ‘Kalima’ (an Islamic declaration of faith) as a test before killing the victims, pointing to a targeted attack. A Muslim ponywallah was also killed when he tried to grab a terrorist’s gun to save the tourists.

One of the organisers of Friday’s protest, held outside a mosque, said the terrorist attack was an assault on the country and that they condemn it in the strongest possible terms.

“All of us have gathered here today to condemn Tuesday’s attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam. Unarmed people were attacked… this is an assault not just on them but on the entire country. It does not matter what religion a person is from, our religion does not allow the killing of anyone in this manner. We condemn it in unequivocal terms. We want to tell the family members of those who were killed that we share their grief,” the man said in Hindi.

The terrorists should get the strongest possible punishment, the man said, adding, “They are traitors to the country and humanity” as people, including children, around him said ‘ameen’ (so be it).