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?
Radio Shariah and Taliban History in Pakistan
http://dilnawazinqalabi.blogspot.com/2008/11/war-o n-terror-in-tribal-areasradio.html
It is because of this aspect of Islam that I left it many years ago.
Adnan, Two wrongs doesn
@farrukh The Ameer of JI will state his support for the Taliban this Sunday on GEO’s Javaabdeyh at 8PM
Apart from the fact that Zina was not ‘established’ in this case (there are so many variants of this story on the net, including the one about the father in law that we hear on this video) that I am certainly confused about what the ‘alleged’ crime really was.
The Maulana refers repeatedly to stoning as the correct punishment, differentiating – as has become the custom -between Adultery and Fornication. However, we KNOW that that is not based on a Quranic injunction.
The differentation is based on a distortion of Biblical references and attributed to a Hadees that you can see at http://tinyurl.com/ch6fal (an extract is quoted below).
Allaah decrees a severe punishment in this world for those who commit zina, namely the hadd punishment. Allaah says, describing the punishment for the unmarried person who commits zina: