INDIAN AMERICAN

Pahalgam Massacre: Hindu American Foundation slams Western media for whitewashing the facts

Monday, 28 Apr, 2025

Hindus massacred in Kashmir by Islamists - The headlines should have been that simple. But they weren't.

On April 22, terrorists from The Resistance Front, a Lashkar-e-Taiba offshoot, murdered at least 26 tourists in Pahalgam, targeting Hindus with chilling precision. Survivors described being asked their religion and were forced to show IDs or recite Islamic verses. Those identified as Hindu were executed. "As Hindus were targeted again in Kashmir, Western media refused to call out Islamist terror. 

The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, BBC, Reuters and AP presented us with a masterclass in whitewashing, gaslighting, false equivalencies and revisionist history," HAF said.  

Listen to HAF’s Executive Director, Suhag Shukla, Esq., as she tears into the misleading reporting from some of the most respected Western media outlets.

The intent behind this massacre was clear: to target, murder, and terrorize Hindus as part of an ongoing ideological and religious war. It is part of a decades-long pattern of violence against Kashmir’s indigenous Hindu community, one that continues to be ignored, misrepresented, and erased.