"Where is the man caught in adultery? Why isn't he being whipped or shot? If something sexual actually occurred, was it a rape?"
According to later news reports, no adultery or rape occurred.
It was simply a case of a young woman leaving her home unescorted by a male member of her family, according to the Wall Street Journal report today.
The situation, according to Shaukat, who filmed the attack on his cell phone, was that the girl had refused a marriage proposal. Her suitor had joined the ranks of the Taliban and taken revenge on her by instigating the flogging. See:
Thank you for the courage of this man to film the brutal beating and then circulate the video.
"...people in Swat are so scared that no one has the courage to stand up and speak out against the Taliban and their verdicts," he says, according to the article in Dawn News.
No one except Shaukat. Let's pray for him as well as the girl that they may not be attacked or injured.
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