Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (27080)	9/14/2001 1:00:04 AM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 82486

followed your link to---> Rebels Threaten to Shoot Unveiled Women news.excite.com By Sheikh Mushtaq Thu, Sep 13 8:55 AM EDT SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - A shadowy Muslim rebel group in India's restive Kashmir, whose members sprayed acid on women for defying its Islamic dress code, threatened on Thursday to shoot women if they did not wear veils. "Unveiled Muslim women and girls will be shot at after September 14," a spokesman for the little-known group, Lashkar-e-Jabar, told the Urdu-language Alsafa newspaper. "We appeal to heads of colleges and schools for girls to persuade students to adhere to Purdah (the veil)," the spokesman said. Thousands of nervous Muslim women in strife-torn Kashmir have begun wearing veils after the militant group sprayed acid on two women in Srinagar last month. The rebel threat came as authorities said they had arrested some separatist guerrillas who had attacked women with acid. A government statement said police achieved a "breakthrough" after arresting some militants responsible for attacking women. "Investigations may lead to more arrests," the government said. Police stepped up patrols and posted plainclothes men at schools and collages to protect women defying the order after an earlier rebel deadline passed on Monday. On Tuesday, unidentified youths threw paint at an unveiled tea-e-Jabar has also ordered women from the minority Hindu and Sikh communities in Kashmir to dress differently to Muslim women so they can be more easily identified. The group said Hindu women should wear a traditional "bindi," the colored dot on the forehead, and Sikh women should cover their heads with saffron-colored cloth. Authorities in Kashmir say people in the troubled state have resisted the rise of Islamic fundamentalism since the start of the separatist rebellion and would do so again. Separatist guerrillas in the early 1990s banned beauty parlors, cinemas and liquor shops and demanded women adopt Islamic dress in India's only Muslim-majority state. Nearly a dozen Muslim militant groups are fighting New Delhi's rule in Jammu and Kashmir where officials say more than 30,000 people have been killed in separatist violence Separatists put the death toll closer to 80,0000. * the world wants to be rid of these insane fools once and for all