[Reader-list] In Valley, gunmen take to moral policing: ‘enforce hijab in college’

[rashneek kher]

Dear All,

A story done by Indian Express on the Islamist Icons(Robin Hoods of our
friends) imposing Hijab and threating Prinicipals of Colleges by burning
their cars.
How I wonder would Taliban control the land that once infidelds lived
in.They would cleanse the society by imposing purity on the inhabitants and
the sly shadows of Mao would cheer them and call them dervishes oops
divinely ordained dervishes.Their divine powers derived from mediveal
obscrutanist religiou practices-soon flogging,killing in football grounds
and burning of girls schools would be the order of day.And our Marxist
demi-icons would sing paeans to the piety of the new age dervishes.
It may also be worthwhile to mention that the leaders of the "azadi" today
have done exactly this when they "were a part of the armed struggle".For the
proponents of jihad and their supporters...from Riyaz Wani
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 In Valley, gunmen take to moral policing: ‘enforce hijab in college’



 In the first such incident in the Valley since the decline of militancy
started two years ago, masked gunmen waylaid the principal of a North
Kashmir college, destroyed his car, and gave him a three-day ultimatum to
ensure the 3,000 girl students in his institution began wearing the hijab.

 The principal, Muhammad Ashraf, a respected Islamic scholar, told The
Indian Express today that he would not be cowed by the threat and would
continue to do his work at the college.

 Ashraf said seven men stopped his car — in which he was riding with his son
and a local acquaintance — near his village at Dangiwacha, and commandeered
the vehicle over a dirt track into a thicket of bushes. “They wore masks and
dark glasses and were heavily armed with Kalashnikovs, pistols and
grenades,” Ashraf said.

 According to the principal, the men appeared to know a lot about him: that
he was a specialist on Sayyid Qutb — the Egyptian Islamist political
theorist and leading intellectual of the Muslim Brotherhood in the 50s and
60s who is thought to be one of the philosophical progenitors of Al Qaeda —
and that he had been trying to enforce discipline in his college.

“You have taken some really good steps in the college like banning smoking
and cellphones. Now, you must do something that we want you to do. Enforce
an Islamic dress code for girl students,” Ashraf said the men told him. They
gave him three days to carry out their diktat, failing which they would
“act”, they said.

Ashraf’s college, Degree College, Sopore, has around 7,000 students on its
rolls, 3,000 of whom are girls. It is among the largest colleges in the
state.

“They told me that they had picked me to send a message to all other schools
and colleges in the Valley in which girls study,” Ashraf said.

Perhaps to rattle the principal and send the message that they meant
business, the gunmen set his vehicle on fire. Ashraf and his companions were
released after about two hours in captivity.

The Dangiwacha police have filed a case, and are looking at all angles,
including one unrelated to militancy. “We are exploring the possible
dimension of college rivalry,” said a senior officer who did not want to be
named.

No militant outfit has claimed responsibility for the incident. The
separatists too have been silent, and are perhaps trying to ascertain if
militant groups were involved.

Senior Superintendent of Police Viplav Kumar said a hunt was on for the
gunmen. “We are trying our best. Hopefully, we will crack the case soon,” he
said.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/in-valley-gunmen-take-to-moral-policing-enforce-hijab-in-college/507208/0

best

-- 
Rashneek Kher
http://www.kashmiris-in-exile.blogspot.com
http://www.nietzschereborn.blogspot.com