00:00There is a contradiction playing out.
00:03A section of Kashmir's political class, led by the chief minister himself,
00:08has turned the lens inward.
00:12But not on the radicalism in Kashmir.
00:18Not even on the ecosystem that repeatedly normalized radicalism
00:23when it flew the flag for Islamist supremacists
00:27like the Hezbollah or ISIS, as you can see in the visuals,
00:33but instead on themselves as victims.
00:37Yes, viewers, now top Kashmiri politicians led by the chief minister himself
00:43are suggesting that all Kashmiris are victims,
00:48including those who have committed these heinous acts.
00:55This is what Omar Abdullah says.
00:57When we are looked at with suspicious eyes from every side,
01:02when attempts are made to defame us for someone else's doing,
01:06when attempts are made to bring everyone into the ambit of what few people have done,
01:12then it is obvious that it becomes difficult for us to leave for outside.
01:17Today, even driving a JNK registration vehicle in Delhi is being seen as a crime.
01:26When I do not have many security personnel with me,
01:29I myself think whether I should take out my car or not,
01:32as I do not know if anyone will stop me and ask me where I was from,
01:38unquote,
01:40as the chief minister of the state.
01:42Now consider what his main political opponent has said.
01:46Ilteja Mufti says, and I quote,
01:48Kashmiris are trapped in a vicious cycle.
01:51One feels quite hopeless
01:53because we are in this endless loop of mindless violence,
01:58sweeping repression,
01:59and suspicion followed by resentment and alienation,
02:04unquote.
02:07Now, you heard it, viewers.
02:10Former chief minister Omar Abdullah says,
02:12Kashmiris are being defamed for the action of a few,
02:15that even driving a Jammu and Kashmir registered car in Delhi invites suspicion.
02:21Ilteja Mufti speaks of repression and alienation
02:24and about being scapegoated.
02:27But here are the hard facts.
02:29This sudden surge of, quote, victimhood, unquote,
02:32comes after an NCMP called Indian Tourism in Kashmir.
02:38Cultural invasion.
02:40Viewers, he has used binaries
02:45that go completely against multiculturalism
02:50and label every non-Kashmiri
02:55as a cultural invader.
03:00But here, viewers,
03:02no one said anything.
03:05Then, after crowds in Srinagar waved Hezbollah flags,
03:09mourning a man who vowed to, quote,
03:11liberate Kashmir, unquote,
03:13and turn it into a caliphate,
03:16that has also happened,
03:17and you can see those pictures in the middle of your screens.
03:19I'm not making this up.
03:22Do you see anyone sort of there,
03:24viewers,
03:25saying that down with this man,
03:27we're glad that we are rid of this scourge
03:31because he was a radical
03:34that viewed the world
03:37in infidel, non-infidel sort of terms.
03:44Viewers, even before that,
03:46thousands rallied behind Burhan Wani.
03:51ISIS flags were dismissed as frustration.
03:54Who spoke up to denounce this open support
03:57of Islamist religious radicalism?
03:59No one.
04:00No one, not in my name, rally was held
04:03distancing Kashmiris from terror evangelists.
04:08Viewers,
04:08the hard facts speak for themselves.
04:10As I said,
04:11no action was taken against this
04:13MP
04:14of Omar Abdullah's party,
04:16Aga Rahula,
04:17for saying
04:18what they call his tourism
04:19is not tourism,
04:20but cultural invasion.
04:23A year before that,
04:24hundreds of protesters rallied in Srinagar,
04:26mourning the death of Hezbollah leader,
04:27Hassan Nasrallah.
04:28I told you
04:29that he wanted
04:30you
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