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?
Friends Kindly read this BLOG POST.
http://www.pakspectator.com/dont-critcize-islamic- punishments/
a quote:
“”Taliban in Kabul showed the world, a most peaceful society “”
How come no body talks about the authenticity of the video? Any Tom,Dick and Harry can create these kind of videos. It seems like these videos are launched for a purpose.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-l ibrary/dawn/news/pakistan/witness-to-swat-flogging -speaks-out–qs
The incident is disgusting and nauseating; it has nothing to do Islamic teachings and Taliban have also no authority to exercise over the life and property of citizens, which sadly they are doing in the length and breadth of Frontier and tribal areas either due to the failure or criminal silence of the government.
The list of horrors they are doing to the public is long; however, one good that came out of it was that for the first time rest of the nation came to know about the gravity of situation and sensed the plight of those living in Frontier. For the past three years these things are happening and rest of our nation acted as silent spectators and let me say that if the rest of the country had stood by our side in the beginning, Taliban have not been able to made deep inroads and conquests.
One more aspect of this whole episode is that though Islam had prescribed severe punishment for adultery, but the criteria which Islam had set to prove the act also should be taken to in consideration. Shariah asks for four eye-witnesses (sane, pious, good character and free from seven deadly sins) to establish actual commission of the act. For the witnesses it is necessary that they have seen the couple while they were in intercourse, and if they see a couple lying together, then the commission of the offense does not establish. The Taliban interpretation of the Sharia is skewed and it has nothing to do with the teachings of Islam.
how could he say “Thirty five”….they never pronnounce anything in english…think about it.