SRINAGAR, India -- An Islamic women's group in Indian Kashmir protested against Valentine's Day that they denounced as a Western conspiracy to involve Muslims in their "vulgar culture".

Two dozen women activists from Dukhtaran-e-Millat, or Daughters of Faith, marched on Tuesday through the Indian Kashmir summer capital Srinagar and burned Valentine's Day cards.

Wearing full-length traditional Islamic dress, group leader Aasiya Andrabi branded Valentine's Day a "deep-rooted conspiracy of the West to involve Muslims in their vulgar culture".

Speaking to fellow protestors, she warned of "God's wrath for deviating from the right path [of Islamic teachings]" and warned them to "remain aloof from anti-Islamic activities".

"Valentine's Day is against our culture and Islamic teachings," said Andrabi whose group supports a 16-year-old revolt against New Delhi's rule in Kashmir.

The protest marked Andrabi's return to moral policing after her release from jail where she spent four months for harassing a couple as part of the group's crusade to stamp out "immorality" in the Muslim-majority region.

Moderate and hardline factions of Kashmir's main separatist alliance and other Islamic groups rallied around Andrabi when she was in jail, and demanded her release, saying that she was doing a good job fighting obscenity and immorality.

Kashmir's largely Muslim population is socially conservative, but in recent years couples have openly dated in parks, restaurants and Internet cafes.