Diktat? Darla say.......
Posted on 11/02/2010 1:17:55 PM PDT by george76
ISLAMABAD: Taliban fighters publicly flogged 65 men after they were convicted by a militant "court" for selling and using drugs in the restive Orakzai tribal region, barely days after a senior official had claimed that 90 per cent of the area had been cleared of rebels.
The men were brought before a " Shariah court" in Mamozai area of Orakzai Agency and they reportedly admitted they had violated a Taliban-imposed ban on using and selling drugs.
After they were "sentenced" by the militant court, the men were taken to a ground on Sunday and each of them was given 10 lashes by Taliban fighters as a large crowd watched.
Hafiz Saeed, the Taliban spokesman in Orakzai Agency, told reporters on phone that the tribesmen had confessed to the "Shariah court" that they had been using drugs despite warnings by the militants.
He said the men were publicly punished so that no one would dare violate the Taliban's warnings in the tribal region.
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10 lashes...that is a small punishment. Under Sharia the punishment is 100 lashes for drinking wine.
Obviously, even such severe punishment is no deterent.
Diktat? Darla say.......
Fortunately the drugs killed the pain and the lashes only tickled a little bit.
Whatever the answer is, I don't think anybody has found it yet.
the Taliban [ and most Islamic fundies ] are such vile hypocrites . The promote the poppy growing , they try to protect it . They deal in the product they derive the proceeds in order to buy munitions to fight the good guys with . And yet they righteously whip a few flunkies that they round up that are actually using what they purvey?
Every Taliban that they catch should have a fatal doze of smack shoved down their throats , and then feed the corpse to the dogs
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