Posted on 04/07/2009 10:13:39 AM PDT by mojito
Since 9/11, I've watched scores of grainy video films showing Islamist extremists doing what they do best--meting out barbaric punishment to adulterers, thieves and Jewish journalists, and murdering innocent people in Mumbai, Lahore and other places. Yet nothing I'd seen so far had prepared me for the stomach-churning experience I had on Saturday when I watched a two-minute clip of a bearded member of the Taliban--in Swat, Pakistan--flogging a 17-year-old girl who'd been accused of adultery.
Here is the clip. Watch it before reading further. I suspect some of you--perhaps those with teenage daughters of your own--will be unable to watch it to the end. (Here's a second source, in case the first link is erratic.)
These are a primitive people. These are a cruel people. To the more evolved observers of the human condition, nothing is as jolting to the senses as primitive cruelty. This is not because such cruelty is an affront to civilization; it is because such cruelty confirms that civilization is entirely absent in certain societies. It is this absence that jolts us.
Here, a man, sturdy and deliberate, is hitting a teenage girl repeatedly on the buttocks with a strap, as two men press her--face-down--to the ground. One immobilizes her by pinning down her shoulders, the other by binding her legs together in his grip. (We are told in news reports that the latter is the girl's brother; his eyes are averted from the flogging, suggesting that he may have been coerced to participate in the punishment.)
The man hits, and hits, and hits. After the fourth strike, the girl starts to whine, then scream in pain and supplication.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Here we witness the true face of Islam, and the descent of humanity that comes about from worshipping a burnt-out god, a god of savagery, abasement and cruelty.
“A video showing a teenage girl being flogged by Taliban fighters has emerged from the Swat Valley in Pakistan, offering a shocking glimpse of militant brutality in the once-peaceful district, and a sign of Taliban influence spreading deeper into the country.
The two-minute video, shot using a mobile phone, shows a burka-clad woman face down on the ground. Two men hold her arms and feet while a third, a black-turbaned fighter with a flowing beard, whips her repeatedly.
“Please stop it,” she begs, alternately whimpering or screaming in pain with each blow to the backside. “Either kill me or stop it now.”
A crowd of men stands by, watching silently. Off camera a voice issues instructions. “Hold her legs tightly,” he says as she squirms and yelps.
After 34 lashes the punishment stops and the wailing woman is led into a stone building, trailed by a Kalashnikov-carrying militant.
Reached by phone, Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan claimed responsibility for the flogging. “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,” he said. He defended the Taliban's right to thrash women shoppers who were inappropriately dressed, saying it was permitted under Islamic law.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/02/taliban-pakistan-justice-women-flogging
I watched it....then I thought of Obama’s statement...”We will never be at war with Islam.”.....
I realize what a total and complete disaster he is for America!
I watched it. The thug hit the girl on the butt 34 times, hard, with a wide leather strap while two others held her face-down in the dirt.
I would dearly like to mete out a similar punishment to the strap-wielding thug in particular. See how many hits it takes before he squeals like the girl. I’d bet it takes three or fewer. I hate bullies, and I always have.
The Taliban are bullies and thugs hiding behind a thin veneer of religion.
Remember flogiston from chem class?
Yes, Hussein Obama believes we can work with these animals.
Remember the story about the girl’s school catching fire (I think it was in Pakistan) and the men locked the doors and let the small girls burn rather than be outside without their burkas?
These are NOT men, they are lower than animals.
When we first went into Afghanistan I said to others “Just arm the women there, that would be one way to get justice.”
God help the USA and our allies when these demons are controlling Afghanistan and Iraq (them and the Al Quida demons). This is what is soon to happen. Our troops won the war there, but we are now going to hand it back to those who used those countries as training terror training camps.
As for the “Guardian;” calling these animals “militants” is despicible!!! I suppose that poor girl they are beating is the enemy.
Had it been adultery she'd have been beheaded. She was seen talking to or walking with a man who was not a family member, IIRC.
...or stoned. I forgot about the stoning.
“Yet nothing I’d seen so far had prepared me for the stomach-churning experience I had ....”
I’ll bet it was nothing compared to a film I saw of someone being skewered on a sharpened pole while still (briefly) alive; I was haunted for days. Islam is the most hellish thing on earth!
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