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?
@ justathot…
your analogies are mind boggling….
you call folks like me anti-sharia…this is based on the assumption that what you see before you is actually sharia…which only shows that you have no idea what a Utopian Islamic Society looks like…
…..and the beards ‘so-called extremists’ implying that they arent really extremists…. …nicely tried I must say..almost slips under the radar…
and THEN…you call folks like me Khwarji’s…which really is ridiculous….and again shows that you HAVE NO idea what the khwarji’s were and what they wanted and why Hazrat – e- Ali (RA) made war on them and put to death thousands of them to avoid their cancerous fitna spreading further….
now…consider if you will the behaviour of me and others on this forum and compare with the behaviour of the beards and their sympathizers…..the beards kill because they consider people like me heretics…never mind the prayers I say and the Kalima that I recite and the beard that I myself sport….and after you have read what the khwarji’s actually were and how they viewed even Hazrat – e Ali (RA)….THEN come back and give this idiotic comparison…THEN tell me who is more of a khwarji…
Ive had it with half wits like you who have never bothered to educate themselves on the details of our faith and our history and who was whom and who did what….
Pick up a Book man…and maybe you will have more than ‘justathot’ …..and will learn to develop numerous thoughts and a collection of informed thoughts will set you on the path towards a measure of rationality! Pick up a book…..i’d advise you to start with something like Thomas the Engine type book and work your way up!
just ‘a’ thought indeed!
Karachite, what we have here is
If I will be in the government I will shoot all these so called Molwes and take control of all the madras. Do you what you can do or blow your self and kill some Muslim and go to paradise but we will not accept this kind of transnational of Islam.
yes for the millionth time….@ karachite
we dont want this type of (or any type of) shariat…we dont want no talibanees….dont tell us…that our security is only possible if we side with talibanese…if that is the case i would prefer to die….rather than side with these criminals…as tipu sulatan said “shair ki aik din ki zindagee…geedar ki so sala zindagi say behtur hai”….so we dont want any benefits which come through talibanee blood hounds….NO NO NO …we dont want talibans…THEY NEED TO GET OUT OF OUR COUNTRY…you are more than welcome to pack your bags and leave with them…
STOP LYING, STOP DEFENDING CRIMINALS BUTCHERS, ABUSERS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN…AND STOP LYING THAT WEST HAS NO JUSTICE SYSTEM …STOP LYING
@ Aziz Ahmed…Zakoota….
That (non) Muslim Khan is RIGHT THERE ON VIDEO SAYING THAT YES….HIS MEN …DID…..IT! so can you please stop this LYING….argue your point of view no matter how sick it might be but for heavens sake dont LIE over and over and over again….that this video is fake….
the person you were defending has accepted it….