Murder halts brutal reign of burqa-clad morality police in Kashmir

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Murder halts brutal reign of burqa-clad morality police in Kashmir
By Justin Huggler in Delhi
Published: 03 September 2005

For the past few days, the people of Indian-held Kashmir, already traumatised by decades of conflict, have had to contend with a self-appointed all-female morality police.

Clad in all-enveloping burqas, the Dukhtaran-e-Millat, or Daughters of the Nation, have sought to impose their version of Islam on the city of Srinagar. They have closed restaurants where they found unmarried couples together, smashed alcohol bottles and ordered Internet cafes to remove individual computer booths in case unmarried couples snatch a moment of intimacy.

But now the religious caped crusaders have run into a bit of bother of their own with the real police. The group's leader, Asiya Andrabi, and six other members have been arrested on charges that include attempted murder, after a vicious attack on a woman in a restaurant.

The activists forced their way into the restaurant and attacked the woman with a curtain rod, Senior Superintendent of Police Muneer Khan told the Indian Express.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article309907.ece

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1. Jesus

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2. The Islamic version of Fred Phelps.

Is there a cure for this sort of mental illness?

[Mairead]

4. "Is there a cure for this sort of mental illness?"

Yes, but I discovered not so long ago both over at Smirking Chimp and also here at DU that few want to apply the cure.

The cure is to make religiosity, like genital exposure, a non-public act. Fine people who refuse to consider the rights of others not to be exposed. If they don't 'get it' after 5 or 10 or 20 episodes, with increasing fines, order them to undergo psychiatric evaluation, and possibly lock them up if they're so detached from social reality that they can't conform their behavior appropriately.

It's the only way it's going to happen. Religious nutters would kill unbelievers, if we let them get away with it.

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5. Toxic, like passive smoking?

Gets my vote.

[MADem]

3. Look, if you want to date, you gotta get out there!!!

Sounds to me like a bunch of griping ladies who are angry that their time has passed, or feel they don't have the social skills to enjoy a bit of contact like a normal person...a lot like the male morality police, when you think of it--if "I" couldn't do it, well neither can YOU!!!!

Time marches on, as does progress--ain't nothing you can do about it. Love WILL find a way!!!