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?
The Taliban supporters here seem to be saying two opposite things : (a) that the video is fake and could not have happened [which is odd since Taliban spokesman has accepted it] and (b) that the punishment is right. How come?
Bismillah ur Rahman ur Raheem
I think these Taliban are agents to give bad name to Islam. I cannot imagine any real Muslim coudl do or support this.
I am ashamed of them and used to think that they wanted real islam but it is clear that they are just Barbarians. But I was wrong.
Wassalam.
I am amazed at how these mullahs and Taliban supporters lie.
They keep saying this is not real when the Taliban spokesman has himself said that it is.
Do they Taliban-supporters have no shame, no fear of God at all. Kuch tou sharam karo.
Yes, the propaganda of the Taliban supporters is amazing. My email is being filled by filth from Mullahs trying to argue that the video is real. They are just shameless in spreading lies and not seeing teh truth in front of their nose.
Of course anyone supporting teh Taliban is already supporting criminals and murderers, so spreading lies is such a small thing for them.
This video is a clear depiction of where Pakistan is today after almost 52 years of independence. Before prophet Mohammad came to Arabia, Arabs used to burry their baby girls alive in the sand. Before the British came to India, Indians used to burn their girls alive with the dead husbands.
NOW………soon in near future we shall be saying “Before Obama came to Pakistan young women were forcibly held down and butt-whipped by men”. It should be a reminder of the slavery in the USA and how black slave women were treated here in the USA. Hey Michelle and Barak!!!!!!!!! Please do something meomorable for Pakistani women ..I beg u… How can i help???