Then, Hannan is a liar. What about the video on Taliban's own website showing beheading of a Pakistani?
Is that whole website also 'doctored'?
I think, Hannan could be doctored also, then?
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Farida Majid <farida_majid@...> wrote:
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> Subject: Jamaat-e-Islami P chief's reaction on Swat Flogging
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> 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.
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> "Amir of Jamaat-e-Islami believes that the years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan were one of the golden periods of Muslim history"
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> A friend of mine received a text message yesterday which she swiftly forwarded to me with a comment, "Please read this message I got from an old classmate. I feel sad for this woman more than the one flogged in Swat." The message came from a perfectly normal, middle-class professional woman who works with an inter-governmental agency in Islamabad. It reads, "Do not believe in the flogging video. This is a Jewish conspiracy hatched against Islam and Muslims."
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> A respected and senior bilingual journalist in one of his Urdu columns in the daily Jang went a little further and said that criticising Islamic punishments amounts to profanity. To him, westernised NGOs are doing it for dollars. The JUI-F leader found it to be a plot against the accord reached in Swat between the father and the son-in-law representing the TNSM and the Taliban, respectively. He also blamed the NGOs for blowing an incident out of proportion, which actually may not have happened. Unfortunately, the provincial information minister of the ANP thinks the same way.
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> But the masterpiece is yet to come. Behold. The new but not-so-fresh Amir of Jamaat-e-Islami believes that the years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan were one of the golden periods of Muslim history. Clearly alluding to the view that what the Taliban are doing in Pakistan is totally correct. Which means that as a citizen of Pakistan, an ordinary Muslim who believes in creating a modern, rational society where the rights of everybody who lives here, whether a woman, a minority person, a peasant or a prime minister, are equal, I must follow what the Taliban say. It is they who can establish such a state. They are the saviours, ones who guarantee a just and prosperous future to the teeming millions of this country.
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> I make a proposition to Munawwar Hasan and Fazlur Rehman. They should be men enough to announce the merger of their parties into the Taliban movement and submit to the real men who at least have the guts to come out in the open and demonstrate through action what they believe is right. I also call upon the journalist colleague to move to a Taliban-controlled area and be their spokesperson. He must also move his whole family to that heaven on earth, the Dar-ul-Aman created for Muslims. His daughters and nieces of school-going age must accompany him. Don't they deserve a proper Muslim brought-up?
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> And I am very sure that he is needed as the new spokesperson. Because the one they have now is not suave enough. One day he says that such incident has not taken place and on the very next day he says that the woman was flogged not by older men as shown in the video clip but two young boys who were not adults. Amazing! Young boys are used to flog women. Even worse I am afraid. I am sure my journalist colleague would have come up with a far better explanation. People like him could also provide understandable reasons for what happened in the last few days in the main Imambargah of Chakwal, the police academy in Lahore, the camp of the Frontier Constabulary in Islamabad. They can perhaps also justify scores of such incidents over the past couple of years.
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