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.