(((At last, a burning issue radical Hindus and Muslims can agree on.)))
Link: Valentine's cards burned, couples beaten in Kashmir - Women - Middle East Times.
SRINAGAR, India – A Muslim women's group in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir group burned greeting cards and beat young couples to stop people celebrating Valentine's Day, witnesses said Tuesday.
The separatist Dukhtaran-e-Millat (Daughters of the Nation) raided restaurants and showered blows on some couples and then burned cards during a rally in the summer capital's center, a witness said. (((Imagine getting mugged on Valentine's Day by a pack of angrily celibate Moslem women. I wonder what their official line is on "Get Well Soon" cards.)))
The group, along with an Islamic association called the Forum Against Social Evils, regularly wage morality campaigns against movies and other emblems of popular Western culture that they deem un-Islamic.
"We will not allow Western culture to take roots in Muslim Majority Kashmir," chanted several dozen marchers led by Dukhtaran-e-Millat chief Aasiya Andrabi.
Kashmir's Muslim population is socially conservative, but in recent years couples have openly dated in parks, restaurants, and Internet cafes. (((INTERNET CAFES?! and Valentine cards to boot? Man, trawl out the truck bombs, it's time for the jihad to go to the mattresses....)))
