Flashermac Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Kashmir women's group vows to stop Valentine's Day celebrations 11 Feb 2006 SRINAGAR, India (AFP) - An Islamic separatist women's group, known for its fierce opposition to Western-style romance, vowed to prevent couples celebrating Valentine's Day in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir. "We will not allow anyone to observe Valentine's Day as it does nothing but spread immorality among youth," said Aasiya Andrabi, firebrand leader of the separatist Dukhtaran-e-Millat or Daughters of Faith. The group, which supports a 16-year-old separatist insurgency against New Delhi's rule in Indian Kashmir, is also engaged in a crusade to stamp out immorality in the Muslim-majority region. Valentine's Day, which is celebrated February 14, is "against our culture and Islamic teachings," Andrabi said in a statement reported by Current News, a local news agency. The anti-Valentine's Day protest Andrabi's return to moral policing after her release from jail where she spent four months for harassing a couple. The group kicked off its campaign Friday against "Lover's Day" in Srinagar, the state's summer capital, by raiding half a dozen shops, confiscating Valentine's Day cards and making a bonfire out of them. The aim of Valentine's Day is to "pave the way for Western culture to invade youths' hearts and minds and distance them from their traditional culture and Islamic principles," added Andrabi. The group has previously smeared black paint on film posters portraying semi-nude women. Andrabi, who wears a head-to-toe veil in line with Islamic tradition, has also been running a largely unsuccessful campaign to get women to wear similar attire in Indian Kashmir. Kashmir's largely Muslim population is socially conservative, but over the past few years couples have openly dated in parks, restaurants and Internet cafes. "We want to save our youth from indecency and desire to see them as true followers of Islam. We won't like them to follow Western culture," Andrabi said on Saturday. Moderate and hardline factions of the region's main separatist alliance and other Islamic groups rallied around Andabi when she was in jail and urged her release, saying she was doing a good job fighting obscenity and immorality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sayjann Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 i support her 100% have you any idea how much i am expected to spend on the GF this Week?. she expects the meal,Champagne,flowers and card........ at least i don't have to pay for the sex..........if i get it......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bkkbound04 Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 I agree entirely, its an awful celebration I'm tired of receiving plastic roses and resin kittens which I then have to spend the rest of my life saying how lovely it is and sure its on my desk for everyone to see. Just goes to show, Islam is not all bad... JP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evel_Penivel Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 I think I'll send Aasiya Andrabi a box of chocolate cocks for Valentine's Day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted February 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 A little Valentine's card with Porky Pig on it ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lazyphil Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 um, as telephones, areoplanes, cars, computers, tv's, nuclear energy science, oil rigs, saterlites, pot noodle etc etc etc were all spawned in the west, are these unislamic, will they ban them or do they cherry pick things to suit their agenda? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jxxxl Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 If there's a person more bitter than a white housewife, it's got to be a muslim wife. They're stuck under that burka while their husbands are getting pissed and shagging young he-whores in Dubai. Doesn't surprise me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul101 Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 http://www.storyofpakistan.com/contribute.asp?artid=C059&Pg=2 tries rather deperately to prove muslims were at the forfront of scientific thought, however even this site cannot dig anything up since the 12th century. I will say they did rather well with turkish delight though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted February 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Alcohol is a borrowed word from Arabic. Most peculiar that Muslims aren't suppose to drink it ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegasdave49 Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 Well well. I have really been enjoying all of the hoopla over the cartoons and other things that are offensive to islam. Basicly I think the world is realizing just how pitifull and pathetic this cult is. The more obsurd they become the better the chances they will be marginalized. We all know that the main reason we even pay any attention to them is because we want their oil. But I think things are coming to a head. Maybe the rest of the world will realize that we need to address the problems caused by this cult and will finaly just leave them to their ignorance and backward ways. Indeed under the taliban, radios, tv's, music, movies, and even flying a kite was prohibited. They expect tolerance of their intolerance. Well time to just cut them off and let them live in a backward world they seem to desire so much. If our politicions had any balls they would make the hard choices, and cease doing any kind of business with them. Of coursre the citizens would be up in arms if they had to pay $5 ro $6 a gallon for gas. But honestly it is the only way to put this issue to rest. Cut them off. No trade, no technology, no visas, no education. I think that in very short order, we would have a safer world. And maybe, just maybe there would be a revolt in these countries and they may be able to join the modern world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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