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?
What can be the biggest irony of the world that a brother is FORCED to hold (one even wouldn’t hold an animal like this!!!) HIS SISTER to be flogged!!!!
Where is morality??? what Islam is infect? has Islam come to create air-head, senseless, immoral and lacking common sense people or to develop self-conscious, compassionate, responsible and moral people? Can anyone from any religion of the world give such example of brother holding his sister to be flogged???
Has anyone noticed the guy flogging SLAPS the brother to hold tight the sister that she wouldn’t move!!!
This again tells hundred things about the event, the sick mentality of the criminal Talibans and the out come of following blindly the man made SHARIAH.
If we just for a minute look into this whole event from pure Quranic perspective it becomes clear how sick, ignorant and brutal these criminals are.
@ bhaddir ali
i read your article. good job…
Here are my two cents on this unfortunate incident:
http://bkhan.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/on-fake-vide o-and-conspiracy-against-islam/
@Karachiite: Bravo my friend but you should not expect something fruitful as Imam Shafai said:
How far behind are we from the rest of the world! While the West tackles issues on global warming, the ways and means to put the economy on the right track, discussing stem cell research, and discussing religion in a civil manner….what has happened to the “Ijtihadi’s” in Islam? Am I wrong in pleading for education, education, and education for our down-trodden masses? That’s the ONLY solution for a viable state if we have to move forward as a country or we will perish and cease to exist. We have had many life-lines but we are coming to a point that even with divine intervention things are unlikely to change.