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[edit] Asiya Andrabi
Asiya Andrabi, the leader of Dukhtaran-e-Millat (Daughters of the Nation), is a female Islamist, who believes the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir's accession to Pakistan.
[edit] Origin of Andrabi
Andrabi is the surname of a Sayyid Muslim dynasty in Kashmir. Most of the dynasty's members live at Ratnipora in the Pulwama District,Malaratta area of Srinagar and Kanthapora, Lolab valley in the Kupwara district. The ancestors of these people came from a place in Afghanistan called Andarab [1], meaning "surrounded by water" -- a reference to the river of the same name winding through the valley named Andarab.
[edit] Background
Asiya Andrabi was born in 1963 in Srinagar, India. A daughter of a physician, she wanted to become a scientist. After graduating in college, she wanted to pursue further studies, but her parents were against her studying further.
During her time at home, she started reading Islamic books and started to become influenced by the concept of militant Islam.
[edit] Dukhtaran-e-Millat
In 1981, Andrabi decided to form a female only exclusive Islamist organisation called the Dukhtaran-e-Millat. This organisation first started as an Islamic awareness organisation for women. Later on, it started to stage anti-pornography demonstrations in 1987, by defacing scantily dressed women and actresses on posters and advertisements.
In 1990, when the Islamic militancy started rolling in the Kashmir Valley, the organisation became banned and went underground. In the early 1990's, she married an Islamic militant named Mohammed Qasim Faktu and produced several children along the way.
[edit] Activities
Her organisation is rumoured to be numbered around a couple of hundred members to a thousand. She has sent burqa clad activists to burn Valentines Day cards and posters nearly every year. In the early 1990's, the organisation threw acid or paint on women, who did not veil themselves. She collaborated with an Islamic group called the Lashkar-e-Jabbar in 2001, to enforce strict Islamic dress on the population. However this has not been very successful so far.
Asiya Andrabi has been arrested and sent to prison on many occasions. The last occasion happened in 2004, when she beat up a woman, who was sitting next to her husband in a restaurant. She publically wanted liquor shops and restaurants boasting special seating arrangement for couples to be closed.
Much of her activities involve helping Islamic terrorist groups in Kashmir in providing food, houses, and logistics.
[edit] Quotations
I don't believe in Kashmiriyat, I don't believe in nationalism. I believe there are two nations - Muslims and non-Muslims[2]
I'm Andrabi, I'm from the Syed dynasty. I'm not actually Kashmiri, I'm Arab, my ancestors had come from Arabia to Central Asia.[3]
I do not call myself a Pakistani but a Muslim[4]
I would be more than glad to share my house with other wives of Qasim (her husband)[5]
Women look after the kitchen and if they want they can even work while men are supposed to work[6]
[edit] References
Dukhtaran-e-Millat raid on liquor store
