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 . I am a Muslim and I Believe it with all my heart. Yes this right that Lashing is prescribed in the Quran but He also describe what will be conditions when it can implemented. There is no where in the Quran that tells a teenage girl can be humiliate in front of all these so called men.
I don’t want to talk about Taliban and their way of implementing it because I think they are just misguided illiterate bunch animals who doesn’t know and anything accept killing. I do not even consider him a human. Thy are murderers of many innocent Muslims and should be treated as criminals.
Here is what you wanted to listen. We refuse to accept this kind of translation of sharyah and It’s time to stand up and fight against these rascals and kill them as many as we can.
Apply this kind of shariah on your own women or else blow your self and kill some innocent Muslims and go to paradise(they hope it).
Pakistan is the place of peaceful Sofya karam not a place of extremist wahabis. Islam didn’t spread and will never spread with the sword.
I read somewhere in a English scholar book that Islam is the true religion but their believers are the worst.
I think the interviewers do a very good job and keep asking the right questions.
it is this criminal Taliban spokesperson who refuses to answer.
Specially the girl asking the questions is asking the right questions.
Thanks for adding the second video.
What do all the taliban defenders say now that teh taliban itself has accepted that this video is real and that they would do this and even more (stoning)?
Funny thing is these idiots call themselves muslims and
doing such stupid things with innocent kids.
The second video was depressing not because of the unconscious ferocity of the Taliban spokesman but because of the helplessness of the two young commentators to break through his rock-bound logic. If they wanted to question him, surely the preparation should have been better. Surely they could have consulted those learned in law. Instead, they let him step all over them, and insist doggedly that whatever was done was rightly done. A shame.
We need to prepare ourselves against our respective opponents better.