Adil Najam
This is a VERY DISTURBING video. Please view at your own discretion.
It is important, however, that we speak about and shout out about this video.
It shows a 17-year old girl being flogged by a Taliban leader of some sort in a perverted form of justice. Reportedly the incident happened in Kalakalay, Swat around 3 months ago (before the supposed peace deal with the government). The girl is being ‘punished’ for going somewhere without a male relative. Supposedly, the male companion was also flogged.
This video is also be discussed vigorously at Pakistaniat’s new Facebook page. Some of that disussion does not carry over here, although we hope it ultimately will.
In more recent developments, supposedly Sufi Mohammad in Swat has condemned the act and said this was not Baitullah’s Taliban. More importantly, the recent reinstated Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry has taken su moto notice of this incident. According to The News
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Friday took a suo motu notice of the media footage in which a 17 year old girl is being whipped out in the broad daylight in Swat. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhdy ordered the matter to be presented before a larger bench on April 6. He also summoned Secretary Interior, IG and Chief Secretary on April 6. He ordered formation of 8-member larger bench to be headed by himself.
This is a story that all Pakistanis and all Muslims must speak about and speak against. There are those who will try to make this a story about what Pakistan or Islam is. Such bigoted approaches are to be resisted. This is not a story about what Pakistan is. This is clearly not about what Islam is. This is a story about what the enemies of Islam and enemies of Pakistan are doing. This is a story about what Pakistan must not allowed to become. The bad news is obvious in the video itself. The bad news is about the criminality being conducted in the name of religion. The good news is that the media, the judiciary and ordinary Pakistanis ARE speaking up and speaking out. We must do more so. For if we do not speak out against this criminality, who will?
It is time for the Pakistani women and girls to get trained to defend themselves against the ‘musalmaan’ na-mards. If your fathers and brothers are jahil wimps to protect you from the eunichs, then you take up arms against these scum bags.
Do not rely on the CJ or any one else to come to your defense. They are all busy in self preservation and don’t give a damn about you.
BBC reports that the alleged man came to work as an electrician and was accused by girl’s family. Both were later forced to get married.
Whatever the case may be. UNACCEPTABLE
Just as we begin to think we have seen the worst possible in our society, we are confronted with new images, more inhuman, more repulsive and more sickening than before. My heart goes out to this young woman, held down by three men, face down, and a fourth flogging her. While the hapless woman cries and wriggles in pain, dozens of men (Pushtoons!) watch the
Where are the long marchers? Where are the mard-e-momin? Anybody out there to save and protect the women and the girls from the na-mards?
Please lets all wake up. What if this was you, your daughter? Or any human. How can people tolerate this inhumanity. Please, let us all act and not let these barbarians take over our country and our lives.