Posted on 09/25/2004 2:29:54 PM PDT by kanawa
SRINAGAR: Activists of a separatist political party went on a rampage in this summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir Saturday, smashing furniture and property of restaurants accusing them of spreading vulgarity.
The activists said these restaurants had become centres of "obscenity and vulgarity" in Kashmir because they provided separate cabins for their clients.
Dozens of activists of the Democratic Liberation Party formed by Hashim Qureshi stormed some hotels and restaurants in the posh Regal Chowk, Gogjibagh and Rajbagh areas of Srinagar.
They smashed glass, destroyed furniture and even dragged out some restaurant owners and waiters, beating them severely. All this was done ostensibly in the name of checking obscenity and vulgarity.
Qureshi hit the headlines in 1971 when he hijacked an Indian airlines plane to Lahore.
Interestingly, the activists included many females who carried banners denouncing vulgarity.
"These cabin restaurants have become the centres for vulgarity in public life. We had been requesting their owners to shut down the cabins but they did not heed our warnings," said a masked activist of the outfit as he dragged a waiter out of a restaurant in the Regal Chowk area.
The police later arrested the activists to prevent them from continuing with their destruction. But some police personnel ended up beating two photographers shooting the event.
When the separatist campaign broke out 15 years ago, the separatist Dukhtaran-e-Milat (Daughters of Faith) group and Allah Tigers forced a shutdown on bars, wine shops, cinema halls and fashion and video parlours in the Kashmir Valley to check what they said were obscenity and promiscuity. The campaign also targeted women who ventured out of their homes without wearing the veil.
As the separatist grip on society loosened with the passage of time, some cinema halls re-opened in Srinagar, and video and beauty parlours re-started their businesses.
But except in a few upper class hotels, bars and wine shops are still closed in the valley. There are two wine shops here but these are located in high security zones
Seems like the place could use a good strip joint or two.
Brings an image of sheep shearing to mind.
Ahh the religion of peace at work again. They need to nuke these rags before they get more brazen.
"Activists of a separatist political party"
Anything to avoid saying "MUSLIMS DID IT."
These people are NUTS!
And the f&*%ing cops ther eponded on the photographers....NOT apparently the @ssholes assaulting the ordinary folk.Makes you wonder where THEY do their off-duty worhip services.
Somebody needs to really severely kick these people in the posterior.
According to two articles I found on google a couple of hours ago the muslims are well represented on the police force. The indians need to give them Kashmir and move all the rest of the country's rags in there and start lobbing nukes. The other alternative is that the rags will incrementally take over the country through the womb and we will have to deal with a nuclear capable country with a first class air force run by fundamentalists. (Though it would not remain first class for long)
Kind of seems a common thread in these "conflicts". Our press is being unmasked. They don't even report the facts and spin anymore. Just spin. It sickens me.
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On news radio in Toronto they were referred to as 'vigilantes'.
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