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?
As Adil Najam clarified in his comment that
Disgusting.
Why do people continue to defend the taliban? They have conquered parts of Pakistan. We are about to lose another province.
Everyone is gungho to join the army to fight India. Join the army to fight these animals who have already conquered part of our country!
@babar
The authenticity of this video is not important because there are muslims who justify and support the act depicted therein irrespective of the video’s authenticity.
It is not about this particular video; it is about the mindset of some (most?) muslims.
@Eidee Man
You have a point. I was hoping for a crushing refutation which would have left the horror speechless for an answer. Romantic illusion.
“he 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. ”
“Learned” in what law? Wahabi law? I bet our “scholars” would have condoned it, or at most qualified it with something more pathetic like, “only her male relative should beat her.”