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?
“feel them one way or other” should be read as “feed them one way or other”
Another Drone attack and usually anti-Shariah guys would close their eyes like Pigeons and would not dare to comment on it:
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The day these wannabe intellectuals start raising voice against these incidents rather than singing praises of Uncle Sam then things will really start getting changed in positive direction but,,, how can they? they can’t lose the chance to live heaven on earth..they can’t raise voice against those who feel them one way or other.
And it’s interesting to read that everyone here has become a spokesman of FOX and CNN and all know what’s going on
I really think that the lawyers should start taking the Taliban to court. For fitna but also for anything else that they can. That is how they got Al Capone and that is what we should do with these criminals.
we need to learn to accept women as human beings first and foremost….why when we refer to role or respect of women we have to refer them as maa, baitee or bewee….no she is a human being first and foremost….
The only hope I have here is with teh Chief Justice and his suo moto. I hope he makes an examle of thes guys, sepcially this Muslim Khan guy. Certainly a case for treason can be made against him for even suggesting that justice should be done by vigilantes.