Religious tolerance

With reference to the report, “Terror attack on Amarnath yatra: 7 pilgrims killed, 19 injured in Anantnag” (July 11), the enormity of the carnage is yet to sink in.

The tragedy is further proof that the Kashmir Valley is now a changed place. Locals used to carry Amarnath pilgrims on their shoulders to the cave shrine. Now the pilgrims face threat to their lives from militants. Not sparing pilgrims is like not sparing patients, children and the elderly.

For all the talk of the growth of Wahabist ideology and radicalisation in the Valley, the majority of Kashmiris have been repulsed by the