Here is the video of a girl being flogged by Taliban in SWAT Valley. Two to three men hold her facedown while one flogs her bottom, disregarding her painful cries. Very Ayn Rand sort of stuff, indeed! Rand might have said that the girl gave “an engraved invitation”– if she lives in the Atlantis of Taliban then that should be regarded as a sufficient consent. Now, if this 17-year old girl is a true heroine by the standards of Ayn Rand, then immediately after this flogging she must fall in love with all three of these men, turn by turn. In that case we could have it serialized on Pakistan Television and call it The Return of Teesra Kinara.
Disgusting, utterly! Please take a look at this video, so that you are prepared when such things happen in your home town – Islamabad, London, New York, Mexico, New Delhi, Karachi, Jamaica, Mauritius, wherever that may be. Taliban and militant Islam is a camouflage. The real threat which lurks over the world today is that ideology of hypocrisy which has so many different faces but whose common trunk is disregard for law and disrespect of human soul.
Especially for urban Pakistan, the video is a must-watch because here such things are quite likely to be happening abundantly in the near future.
Rural Pakistan cannot care less about such trivialities because women, children and weaker men there are used to receiving worse treatment at the hand of feudal lords, honorable officers, visiting rulers of brotherly states and of course the US drones. One wonders if these people should actually start looking at the Taliban as lesser of the two evils, since the other one represented by the democratically elected US government (duly respected by the rulers of Pakistan) is indiscriminately killing everyone who comes in the range of drone attacks; the Taliban at least exercise discretion in picking up their victims in these areas.
My opinion on this matter is just as good (or bad) as anyone else’s. However, if I may be allowed to suggest: our solutions lie in (a) restoring respect for law; (b) sovereignty of states WITHIN THEIR OWN BOUNDARIES and (c) common goals for humanity which strengthen regional peace rather than making a joke of it.
Here is the video: “Coming soon to a place near you.”
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I think there are two inherent aspects of this flogging issue; What actually happened,and
The mediated reality (as we received the information through media). We need to critically and carefully dig out what were the circumstances, who were the people and why it happened so and why not the suspected man flogged
I view the wholething as a matter of establishing authority by the people who conducting this stage and media facilitated it by repeatedly showing rather investigating and contacting the very actors of the stage
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