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?
@krash
No, provided there is a guarantee that all the requirements od sharia are met. Just like capital punishment is not disturbing for a serial killer or a perpetrator of a heinous crime provided all the requirements of the law of the land are met.
For all those condoning thses acts: Please go and live in the Tribal Areas or Afghanistan – we don’t need this Sharia in Pakistan…
Well, Mr Taha, these illiterate barbarians did not pull this out of thin air. Lashing is prescribed in the Quran.
Hene my question, IF all the requirements of shariat were followed would the lashing be still considered disturbing.
Mr. karash. This is not that kind of Islam we believe and Muslims were believe since the beginning of Islam not until this wahabi fitna came. Our Religion teaches us to forgive and Akhlaq but not barbarism. Islam gave rights to a women. We don’t need translation of Islam form these illiterate barbarians militants. I wish that these rascals never accepted Islam. They did nothing to Islam accepted to make joke of it. Islam spread through the message of love and by Sofia karams. No sensible person or Muslim belief that this is right except the one who has no sight to see the truth.
These peoples are illiterate bunch of fools who know nothing other then killing and destroying. You better think who you are defending.
Islam will never spread through sword and you cant force any one to follow your definitions of Islam.
My question is that IF all the legal requirements of shariat were followed and the victim was declared guilty, would you still find the punishment ‘disturbing’?