Those Taliban Sure Love Their Women
Before we negotiate with this fun loving group, this is what Puritan Islamic rule means:
A 17-year-old screaming, burqa-clad girl was whipped by Taliban fighters in Pakistan’s restive Swat Valley for coming “out of her house with another guy who was not her husband”, a two-minute video shot through a mobile phone showed.
The video showed the girl face down on the ground. Two men held her arms and feet while a third, a black-turbaned fighter with a flowing beard, whipped her repeatedly, the Guardian reported.
“Please stop it,” the girl begged repeatedly. “Either kill me or stop it now.”
After 34 lashes, the punishment stopped and the wailing girl was led into a stone building.
“She came out of her house with another guy who was not her husband, so we must punish her. There are boundaries you cannot cross,” the Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan as saying. He defended the Taliban’s right to thrash women shoppers who were inappropriately dressed, saying it was permitted under Islamic law.
“This video is being widely circulated because the Taliban want people to see it. They want to give the message that this is taking place after the peace deal because this is something they ideologically believe in,”.
The girl’s brother is among the men who pinned her down, she added. “It’s symbolic that he does it with his own hands. It gives him honour in local society, that he has done it for the sake of religion.”
Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province government ceded authority to the Taliban under a peace deal, giving them almost a free hand to impose their puritan Islamic rule on the around 600,000 people of Swat and its seven neighbouring districts.
The peace accord signed with pro-Taliban cleric Maulana Sufi Mohammad includes measures to establish Islamic courts, a ban on music, expulsion of prostitutes and pimps from the area, closure of businesses during prayer times, and a campaign against what they call obscenity.
In other news: they may mean it this time.
The founder of the jihadist website Jihad Unspun, Beverly Giesbrecht, is a Canadian convert to Islam who now goes by the name Khadija Abdul Qahaar — but her open allegiance to the global jihad didn’t stop jihadists in Pakistan from kidnapping her. Several weeks ago she made a video in which she said that her jihadist captors had set a deadline to behead her by the end of March. Now they’re saying the deadline is tomorrow.
Unless Canada pays the $2 million ransom…
April 5th, 2009 at 10:05 am
The news reader on video says she’s suspected of adultery, not just being seen in the company of a strange man.
The “whipping” looks staged, and there’s no rage or anger in the soft strokes the “whipper” is applying.
This looks to me like a Taliban propaganda film, used to warn potential sinners of the consequences of their actions.
Maybe there was no real sinner available at the time, so they had to make it up. Poorly done, gentlemen.Grade “F” for acting and direction. Script writing, “either stop it or kill me now” was strictly soap opera quality.
Production of the grainy video was nothing to write home about either. Slightly better than an episode of “Little Mosque”, but not much.
As the Taliban is quite a reasonable organization that can be negotiated with, according to a leading Canadian politician, we can assume that Beverly Giesbrecht will receive another delay in her execution, while Canadians try to scrape up the ransom money, which, I’m sure, the Taliban will put to good use, probably purchasing medical supplies for local hospitals.
The only way anyone is going to defeat the Taliban is if they kill all of them,and no one has the will to do that, so we can anticipate more REAL atrocities by these enlightened gentlemen, while governments babble about “negotiation” and “compromise”, two words unfamiliar to Muslim zealots.
April 5th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
What was the man’s punishment? Was he whipped as well?
April 5th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
People can hate me all they want for saying this, but at least there are Muslims who know how to man handle their criminals instead of offering them a cot and three meals a day.
May 8th, 2009 at 2:48 am
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