Religion is the biggest curse that man has invented and a terrorist does have a religion to manifest this curse

The Pahalgam massacre, perpetrated by the Islamic terrorists from Pakistan, is being condemned across the world. The standard statement that terrorists have no religion sounds threadbare and ridiculously hackneyed. Why shouldn't the faith of the terrorists be highlighted? Barring Zoroastrianism, terrorists have come from all faiths.

There have been Sikh terrorists, Jew ultras, Hindu extremists, Christian terrorists among others. Islam has somehow spawned terrorists than others for donkey's years. So, no need to be politically so correct as not to mention the name of the faith terrorists belong to. 

When these terrorists ask the religion of the victims to confirm that they're not killing the people belonging to their faith and a Hindu/Kafir is being killed because that'll facilitate their entry into heaven and access to 72 Houries, why won't the chasm between Muslims and Hindus widen further? 

Remove words like 'Kafir' and 'Jihad'from the Quran and publicly accept that these words are the real triggers for all nuisance. Highly evolved Muslims or ex-Muslims like Mr Hamza, Al Rizvi, Armin Navabi, Taslima Nasreen, Ibn Warraq, Irshad Manji, Salman Rushdie, among others must come forward and educate the Islamic world to remove all the controversial, volatile and incendiary verses from the Quran. All these impurities in the Book and discrepancies in the Hadees (Muhammad's borrowed and obscure teachings) have birthed violent Muslims who can kill anyone in the name of Islam and Allah. It's time to ponder. Lastly, please don't call me an Islamophobic. I condemn all faiths and their erratic followers.

Col HP Singh is a Mohali based freelance contributor