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?
Adnan Siddiqui! This is real problem. When our Mullah tell us “green fields” of Sharia; the silver bullet which can solve their all problems of existenze in all infinite lifes “THIS IS ACTUAL THEY ARE BUYING”.
Either reform this religion or don’t talk about applying barbaric Sharia anywhere!
Here is a verse straight from the Quran:
(from http://www.jannah.org/qurantrans/quran24.html)
024.002 The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication,- flog each of them with a hundred stripes: Let not compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by God, if ye believe in God and the Last Day: and let a party of the Believers witness their punishment.
The lashes being meted out, no compassion in the hearts and faces of people, and the momineen standing around watching: looks like a scene straight from the Quran!
Now, the woman wasn’t accused of rape, so these verses don’t exactly apply to her, but we know how easy it is to twist and turn such verses and use them for your own version of justice. EVEN IF she had committed adultery, how many of you would be OKAY with such a punishment? I know for the life of me that I wouldn’t. I am repulsed to my very core with this barbarism.
I know most muslims are decent people, but please realize that Islam (like Christianity and Judaism, and perhaps other religions too) isn’t a decent religion. It contains great and humanistic teachings sprinkled with such utter barbarism. Lets not cherry pick verses from our religion and stop pretending that such barbarism is totally unwarranted according to Islamic teachings.
Mr.Murtuza S. Are you fool. These Brave men are accepting what that dud to this helpless women and you are blaming foreign countries. How you will feel if that girl was your relative. Islam has never faced these kind of barbarism this only the act of these uneducated rascals are doing. You are the kind of people I feel shame for as being Pakistani. They are not even a human rather then a Muslim.
Another lame attempt by anti Shariah guys to screw up deal in SWAT
Taliban has been around for so long, long time back only they brought the law and order to Afghanistan. In fact they were opposed to opium harvest when other secular parties and army was supporting it. It is only with their effort was there peace for some time before USA removed them forcefully.
Taliban was around for so long, why such videos only appear now? Why attacks on policemen, cricketers etc happen only now? Years ago there were no such videos circulated. Why is this, all of a sudden such videos?
This is the work of foreign intelligence agency making such videos and spreading it to the people. One can make out the acting in the video and also the whip itself is not seen properly, why is this? The foreign intelligence has duped us by creating incident after incident like cricketer attack. Years ago Taliban never bothered with cricketers, why suddenly change? We should wake up and DEFEND PAKISTAN from the real enemies.
Also even if this flogging was real who are all to comment without knowing the crime committed? What is worse for the society, severe immoral indecent behavior like they have in USA in the young, or one incident of 2 minute flogging?
Let us think before we blame Taliban.