Ali Hussein Mir, a Kashmiri who lived in India but relocated to Dubai, echoed Roya. "Being a Kashmiri is a synonym of being a terrorist if you are living outside of Kashmir and inside India. If you wear a skullcap (kufi) while going to the mosque, people look at us as if we are wearing a bomb." Muslim identity is intimately tied to terror suspicion, while being Kashmiri stands for the quest for self-determination that stands in the way of Modi's Hindutva designs for Kashmir.

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