Ordinary Kashmiri acts can be arbitrarily recast as terrorism by Indian forces

Evidence

India’s de facto annexation of Kashmir has become the new normal for Roya and the 13 million people who call that sublime strip of land home. “Life is what it is now. Anything we do, if they [Indian military] don’t like it, can be said to be terrorism,” Roya revealed. “We are Muslim, and this goes against what Modi wants for this place.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 517

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s global-synthesis project alongside Iftikhar — this is a concrete national case of the War on Terror’s scapegoating logic operating outside the US.
• SEED: Potential angle: how the ‘terrorism’ label migrates from counterterrorism doctrine to domestic imperial control of Kashmir — the term as a weapon of state coercion.