Four foreign television channels have been pulled off the air in Jammu & Kashmir after extremist groups demanded cable companies stop airing "obscene" shows. Cable operators, needless to say, have complied.
Two militant groups — Al-Badr Mujahedeen and Al-Madina (ever heard of them?) — on March 4 in a telephone call to a Srinagar-based news agency, Current News Service, asked cable operators to drop channels that spread obscenity. The groups did not specify which channels they were referring to. So operators dropped English channels like HBO, Star Movies, Star World and Sony Pix like hoat coals.
Now, militants and so-called moderates (read some of the previous posts, please) have the same take on what spreads obscenity.
