Adil Najam
The story told in this video takes around seven minutes to tell. But it will haunt you for much longer.
What do you make of this story? About the commentary on the story? About what it says about technology? About us as a society? About our notions of morality? And, indeed, about how violence and criminality gets legitimized in the confused clash of all of the above?
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It’s wrong to say that her uncle did not ‘perform’ his duty toward the young girl. She was simply seduced by a boy and misled. The latter happenings followed by default.
In our culture it is hard to survive the ignominy brought to the family by a wayward amorous girl who is so mean and selfish that she totally ignores the pain and agony of disgrace that her actions would bring to other members of the family. What choice other than gettin rid of a black sheep did her uncle have being put to utter disgrace in his family and people??
The champions of women rights should either condemn such indecent conduct of women which neither conforms to the norms of the society or Islam OR wait until society changes for good to meet the Western standards and life style!
I agree that the girl had made a ‘natural’ mistake (prematurely) and in a very disgraceful manner….truly speaking it was for her to shoot down her shameless paramor!
Someone said Technology is neutral. But its not.
It’s true we cannot blame technology but what we can do indeed is to educate our society about the dangers of misuse of technology – the incident discussed in the video is not the first one and won’t be the last! Unfortunately, some quarters of our male youth/adult do not indulge in such activities for the sake of vengeance, jealousy or to teach a lesson but for the sake of fun or to show off their exploits, not realizing their actions can destroy lives of many people.
The incident they were discussing was very serious one, involving the death of a young soul and her family’s humiliation but in the video I did not find the third person’s interjections very funny – these guys need to be taught how to present certain sensitive issues otherwise …
Khadim
P.s: I take this opportunity and invite you to read about Ziarat’s recent ‘volcanic coughing’: http://tinyurl.com/yzjn5wr
Some comments from ATP Facebook Page:
– “May ALLAH guide us all to straight path…Both boy and girl were guilty…That Boy must be punished”
– “What about the Mammoo who murdered her. THE RAL CRIME HERE IS MURDER!”
– “i agree. why he (sinner) forget to delete video from memory n fone memory as well as.. May Allah punish these boys also (1. boy who made video 2. boy who uploaded 3.mamoo who killed a guilty gurl.4 who do publicity of this event)”
– “surely he should be punished too…All this is because of our unawarness from religion….It is very difficult for any Father/guardian to bear SUCH VIDEO…am i wrong?”
– “Bhai, har cheeze may religion kyoun laatay hou… religion nay he tou saaray maslay daalain hain… THIS WAS A CRIME…. MURDER…. What does religion say about Murder, yaar!”
– “Such practices are rampant in our society…the depths of immorality to which we as a nation have gone to is alarming. Boy and the girl, both are to blame, as well as the guy who killed her plus the friend and the reporter. We must take a serious look at our selves. what have we come to?”
– “i am not saying that her uncle did right….but people of society made him to do so by criticizinng….we can just imagin the pain of thatt girl and her uncle….I dont think her uncle will have liked to kill her”
– “What do you mean “PAIN OF TEH UNCLE”
Do you even read what you are writing… He is a MURDERER…. and you feel HIS pain!
For Gaod’s sake…. what are you smoking!”
– “…truely right…we must review ourselvs as a Muslim nation….This media first excites the youth by displaying objectionable dramas and programmes and then blames the girls and boys who are not mature”
– “Wah bhai wah. So in your world everyone is to be blamed except the person who committed the MURDER!”
– “..beg your pardon…if you are a father,and video of your daughter’s ra** etc comes on internert.How will u feel?????You cant even get into public to listen that “your daughter……”no personal offence”
– “I will feel bad… sad… maybe I will think of all the mistakes I have myself made… But I will NOT commit Murder… and I will certainly not go around justifying and supporting someone who has committed murder”
– ” I am NOT saying that her uncle should not be punished… an i also said that pain of that girl and uncle….Uncle,by and girl are were to be punished…BUT HER UNCLE HAD NO RIGHT TO MURDER HER…Court had right to punish that boy and girl if they willingly did DOMETHING wrong”
– “I am sorry but I have NO sympathy for the murderer. Nor am I going to join you in blaming the victim (the girl). Which is what you are doing!”
This is gut wrenching indeed.
But this is not about technology, this is about us as a society.