Aug. 31st, 2005

winterbadger: (rt rev & lrnd father in god wm laud)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4198768.stm

Eight veiled women gather outside a shop selling alcohol on the ground floor of a hotel in Srinagar, in Indian-administered Kashmir and start ransacking it.
They chant Islamic slogans.
One of them lights a match to set the shop on fire but is stopped by others for fear that the fire might engulf the entire complex.
The women comprise the Maryam Squad of the Dukhtaran-e-Milat (Daughters of the Nation).
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"According to the Koran, liquor is the mother of all vices. We have been requested by the local residents to destroy this liquor shop here," [the leader] says.
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The Dukhtaran-e-Milat has issued a diktat to operators of restaurants and internet cafes to remove booths where there are reports of young men and women getting intimate.
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Asiya Andrabi says the campaign against prostitution and alcohol has been launched from the capital city but will gradually be extended to all parts of the state.
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The Dukhtaran-e-Milat launched a campaign for the wearing of the burqa (veil) by Muslim women in the early 1990s.
Its activists sprayed paint on women who did not wear a burqa.

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