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?
Let the one who has not sinned start the flogging.
This conversation totally does not make sense.
First, idiots are talking as if they know that she actually committed adultery … THE ONLY WAY YOU WOUDL KNOW IF IF YOU WERE THE ONE COMMITTING IT YOURSELF. Were you? [anyone can get a fake confession after this much beating!)
Second, they are discussing if this is teh right punishment. People, have some sense. It does not matter what was done a thousand years ago. Whether it was in Shariah or not, IS THIS THE RIGHT WAY TO DEAL WITH THINGS. WOULD YOU WANT YOUR BABY SISTER TO BE FLOGGED IF SHE WENT TO THE MARKET WITH AN ELDER RELATIVE? What is humanly wrong is wrong. THIS IS WRONG.
The video reminds me of the
blessed occasion of Baqr Eid when a helpless animal is held down by yet larger animals and beheaded while children stand around and clap for joy. With that kind of life long training in desensitization, I’m surprised that so many of us find this video shocking !
Dear Zakoota
What is making Pakistan unpopular is not the video but WHAT is actually happening in Pakistan.
The solution i not hiding that reality but speaking out against what is happening and making clear that real Paksitani are NOT with these Taliban and Jihadis who want to take us back to the caves with these barbaric practices.
Glad to see you joining your voice with those of sane Pakistanis who reject the barbarism and jahalat.
Im NOT at all a supporter of Taliban by any chance, not even by far. I hate all illiterate and ignorant and also those who try to exploit the religion by any ways or actions. I have mentioned in my previous posts that if this is true, its highly condemnable. What is sad here is to see that most people are thinking in one track only and do not think from the perspective which Pakistan is facing these days and these kind of videos help the enemy’s cause in making the country more unpopular and secluded.