The liberal media houses who had been crying themselves hoarse and secular politicians who have been shedding tears over Internet restrictions in the valley have buried their heads in the sand as jihadis slaughter non-Muslims in Kashmir.

The principal of Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Idgah Satinder Kaur, and another teacher, Deepak Chand, were shot inside the school on Thursday, October 7. The attack took place after two armed terrorists barged into the principal’s office, where a group of teachers were holding a meeting. The terrorists reportedly lined up all the teachers and asked them to produce their identity cards. Their mobile phones were also checked by the terrorists in order to ascertain their identities. Reports also suggest that the terrorists interrogated the teachers, segregated them on the basis of their religion, let the Muslim teachers go, and opened fire at the two non-Muslim teachers at point-blank range. So much for the phony notion that “terrorism has no religion.”

The deceased school principal was a woman from the Sikh community, while the slain teacher, Deepak Chand, was a Hindu Kashmiri Pundit. Though they were rushed to the SKIMS hospital in Soura, they were pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. Security forces immediately headed for the school, but the jihad terrorists had by then fled the scene of the crime.

In his statement to the media, Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Dilbag Singh said, “These recent incidents of targeting civilians are to create an atmosphere of fear, communal disharmony here. This is a conspiracy to target the local ethos and values and defame local Kashmiri Muslims.”

Satinder Kaur, news reports suggest, was a humble woman who routinely gave away half of her monthly salary in charity for underprivileged children. She had also adopted a Muslim girl child and gave 15,000 rupees to a Muslim family that was caring for her. Despite showing such humanity towards Muslims, Kaur couldn’t escape being targeted and slaughtered by Islamic jihadis.

She, however, was not the only one who was murdered by these jihadis despite showing immense compassion for Muslims. On Tuesday, 68-year-old Makhan Lal Bindroo, who was a popular and much-loved chemist in the region, was gunned down by Islamic terrorists at his pharmacy, Bindroo Medicate, in Srinagar, Kashmir. Bindroo was among the few Kashmiri Pundits who had refused to flee Kashmir during the ethnic cleansing of the Hindus in the 1990s. Along with his wife, he grew his business in the valley and raised his daughter to befriend and love Muslims. He was also known for his charity and honesty.

Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha tweeted: “Deeply anguished to hear about the terror attack on Shri Makhan Lal Bindroo, owner of Bindroo Medicate. I strongly condemn this cowardly act. My deepest condolences to the bereaved family. Perpetrators of this heinous act will be brought to justice very soon.”

Another innocent civilian who was also killed in a similar fashion has been identified as Virendra Paswan. Paswan, a street vendor, was a native of Bihar who was residing in Alamgari Bazar Zadibal and earned his livelihood by selling fast food in the Hawal area of Srinagar.

It is worth noting that the Hindus and Sikhs are a minority in the Muslim-dominated union territory, yet there has not been any hue and cry or marches against these killings in the valley. Kashmir, a land that witnesses hundreds of thousands of Muslims paying respects to the dead bodies of Islamic jihadis who have been executed by the armed forces, heard not a single cry in protest for the massacred non-Muslim civilians. This harrowing indifference towards the deaths of four law-abiding citizens is the actual and unfiltered image of the much-touted “secularism” about which advocates of multiculturalism wax eloquent.

A dreadful reminder of the Hindu genocide and exodus of the late 1980s and 1990s, these cold-blooded killings should have triggered a massive uproar worldwide, but the deafening silence maintained by world leaders and global organizations that act as the flag-bearers of peace and tolerance is excruciating and disgraceful.

Journalists and “influencers” outside India who have lately started to talk at length about India’s internal issues and parliament-corroborated policies such as the Citizenship Amendment Act or the Farmer’s Bill Act have deliberately chosen not to address these terror attack. “Blue-tick” propagandists who have been promoting anti-Hindu campaigns on left-leaning social media platforms and have shown great concern for the Sikhs in India have also opted to avoid condemning the killing of the Sikh teacher, lest it showed Muslims in a negative light.