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?
i wish that i can just kill all these so called mulas. today i am losing my mind………….for how long our women will to go through this? we all are saying that it is not Islamic, but it is happening most of the time in Muslim countries. today i just have no word…………………..i want to share a poem with you guys.
Silence
Too many women in too many countries
speak the same language of silence.
My grandmother was always silent, always aggrieved
only her husband had the cosmic right (or so it was said)
to speak and be heard.
They say it is different now.
(After all, I am always vocal and my grandmother
thinks I talk too much)
But sometimes I wonder.
When a woman shares her thoughts, as some women do,
graciously, it is allowed.
When a woman fights for power, as all women would like
to, quietly or loudly, it is questioned.
And yet, there must be freedom
Nice points Meengla and thanks for acknowledging Liberal Pakistanis. You know even after Gen Zia brainwashing most Pakistanis support secular parties and that
@meengla
yes, it is so hard to imagine what this country has become. back in 60 or 70s we were about art, culture, peace, good food, festivities
and now these mullahas have hijacked this country with help of corrupt leader and corrupt military and intelligence agencies.
i saw the Muslim “shahib’s” interview too. He was saying…u people shld be grateful cause we were not that harsh…..and that such nationwide censure is not going to discourage them…”saza to deene ho gee”…oh really…but what these criminal psycho and sociopaths dont know is that it is pakistan, not afghanistan….the loud and obvious public outrage should open their eyes. we are a country where we had elected a female prime minister…..pakistanis on average are moderate and open minded…. this person should be put in jail….
also i think chief justice owes this to nation…we had supported his cause…now he has to take most strict action aganist this barbariansim, which has ashamed pakistanis globally and treat all people reponsible in this shameless act aganist a young child .. to set a precedence once and for all
@Imran,
I understood your first post fine, especially after I read your earlier posts about this flogging incident. So no problem. And thanks for clarifying anyway.
Now that I am making another post here, I might as well add-in some more stuff:
1) In the 90s the Talibans rounded up Pakistani soccer team players during a game and shaved the players heads because the players were wearing T-shirts (or was it short-pants?). Quite some hospitality shown to their prime supporters.
2) In one of the videos above the Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan continues to dodge questions about the nature of the punishment given to Chand bibi’s father-in-law. On top of that, Muslim Khan boasts that the girl is going relatively unharmed because a ‘real Qazi Court’ would have ‘stoned her to death’. He asserts it twice at least. It is unmistakable. Hello apologists in this blogspace!
3) Pakistan is a contrary with perhaps the widest range of social freedoms within its geographical boundaries: From the liberal culture of Karachi where women are very much part of the society to the extremes of FATA and now Swat. I guess one could say: To each his/her own. But when these Jahils come to Karachi or Lahore and ‘do Lal Masjid’ then we have a problem. Americans fought a very bloody, cruel, ‘total’ war in mid-19th century to settle some ‘basic’ questions. I don’t see how Pakistanis can escape a similar struggle regardless of the presence of foreign forces around Pakistan.
sorry!
Meengla, i meant i couldnot agree woth you more, well said….(i guess all these videos have made my mind go crazy, if it will be upto me, i will drown all these shariat-and jehad crazed moulvees in arabian sea)