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| India-Pakistan |
| Kashmir Separatists Kill Assembly Member |
| 2002-12-20 |
| A state assembly member in India-controlled Kashmir was shot to death outside a mosque after Friday prayers. The shooting of governing coalition member Abdul Aziz Mir, 45, was the first attack on a member of the new Jammu-Kashmir assembly since elections in September and October, when separatist Islamic militants threatened to kill anyone who participated in the campaign. "Civil, well-reasoned discourse" in Kashmir involves killing anybody who doesn't let you have your way. A Pakistan-based rebel group, Save Kashmir Movement, claimed responsibility for Mir's killing and threatened more violence. Apparently their objective is to save Kashmir by killing everybody there, one by one... Elsewhere in the state Friday, police said one civilian was found shot to death and another beheaded. Yep. That's Islamists at work, all right... On Thursday night, suspected militants attacked the village of Batiya in Rajauri district, where they forced three young women from their homes, killed two with swords and one with a gun, police said. Police said villagers claimed the attackers belonged to the separatist group Al-Badr. Young women are less likely to be armed... Steve grabs the followup on the girlies... Kashmir women ’slain over Islamic dress’ Suspected Islamic rebels killed three young women in India's Kashmir region for not wearing burqas, the head-to-toe veiled dress worn by Muslim women. The killings came a day after handwritten posters appeared in Rajouri district warning women that they would face consequences for not wearing the veiled dress. Unidentified gunmen barged into the house of Mohammad Sadiq at Hasyote village in the Thanamandi area and shot dead his 21-year-old daughter, Noureen Kousar. The attackers then entered house of Khalil Ahmad in the same village and kidnapped his 18-year-old daughter, Tahir Parveen. Her beheaded body was found in jungles hours later. Another young girl, Shehnaz Akhtar, was also shot in the killing spree, United News of India reported. Police have confiscated some posters pasted on the walls of two senior secondary schools in Rajouri town on Dec. 16 ordering girl students to wear burqas or face the consequences. There have been previous cases of Islamic militants in the area ordering women to wear veiled dresses. In one incident some years ago, Islamic rebels threw acid on the face of one girl who didn't comply. I wonder where the National Organization of Women is on this one? Hello, anyone out there? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 After their support of Bill CLinton, and their tacit support of a do nothing approach in Afghanistan, who cares what NOW thinks? It has fewer active members than the Milton Rigger's Fan Club. Their decibels belie their demographics. |
| Posted by: Ben 2002-12-21 07:15:51 |