how quickly people give up on the shariah and turn their backs on islam after one little video clip, subhanallah.
so lets look at the facts not the western media hype...
it is actually part of a bigger video of a few minutes that includes some brothers being flogged also, but they have cut out the part of the 17 year old woman (girl implies someone under the age of responsibility and she was over this) and used it to once again attack islam and say we repress women.
she was tried and convicting in a shariah court of being alone with a married man who was seen coming out of a house with her and four witnesses testified to this, they also had witnesses to their honesty and character as called for in the shariah. the man was also flogged according to others testimony btw.
so her crime was not zina, but public morality, something the shariah court is allowed to set a small punishment for and she wasnt flogged 100 lashes but 37.
one of the men holding her down is her own brother and her family accepted the punishment even if she did not, i agree it shouldnt have taken place in public but this is a minor matter when compared to the situation before where no shariah was implemented.
the woman (or the men in the longer clip) are not being thrashed, an emotionally charged word implying a great deal of force, instead she is being flogged and as you can see the arm of the man doing it doesnt go back past a vertical drawn up from his torso so that he cannot put full force into the flogging, it is meant to hurt not draw blood or do damage to skin and tissue like the floggings given in british navel traditions of justice for example.
so what we have is a woman, and also some men given a public flogging for various offenses, ok it shouldnt be public for the women but still now everyone knows you cannot behave with immorality and that Allah's law is supreme.
she may be in pain but this will not leave perminent damage, only wound her pride and make her unable to sleep on her back for a week or two, if she learns from her mistake and keeps away from her sister's husbands then there is no reason to suppose it will happen again to her.
i have nothing but love, al-wala with those brothers and sisters in swat and elsewhere who are trying their best to implement the shariah, the law of Allah and reject the kufr of man made law whether that be the pakistani penel code or the tribal law followed by some.
and pray and make du'a they can implement shariah over the whole of pakistan and get rid of the taghoot who rules over them, swat has actually moved up my list of places to make hijrah towards because of the fact they are implementing shariah, even if i dont agree 100% with every ruling, it is better than anything else and certainly better than the british given pakistani penal code which is kufr to judge by and kufr to rule by.
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