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?
Mohammad Bin Qasim responded to the cries of a woman and the rest is history.
There is no Qasim among the 170 million OR 1.5 Billion, let alone the hunreds who witnessed the “Tamasha”
This is a barbaric act that needs to be condemned by everybody especially the religious leaders. Nowhere in Islam is such a punishment permitted and that also to a woman. It is about time we took a stand against this and stand up to stop these acts from happening again
Thank you for adding the second video.
The second video is even more scary than the first one.
The idiot spokesman of the Taliban is accepting that the video is real, he is justifying what happened, and then he is promising that now we will see even more. In fact, he says that the poor child should have been stoned.
I tell you who should be stoned is this guy.
Scary, scary, scary.
The half wit guy in the second videao gloating the Sharia Nizam and once he even mentioned sangsar (stoning) for such crimes. What more proof we need to condemn these perpretators? Can anyone dare to give them punishment for killing innocents and burning public buildings? Our government and Army and of all powers including US should stop the pact with devil. I’m speechless how and when these people gained so much powers and what else they need to do to us to get punishment?
A second, new, video has been added to the post above. This video shows comments from a Tehrik i Taleban spokesman.