In cold blood: Taliban gun down couple for “adultery” in Pakistan
posted at 6:18 pm on April 26, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Coming soon to Islamabad, a shining example of the glories of shari’a. This is the second cell-phone video of Taliban brutality this month to “shock” Pakistan; the uproar over the first was sufficient to merit a story in the NYT. How is it, I wonder, that people who share a country with these degenerates are more surprised by their behavior than I am? This is who they are, and this is what they do. It’s one thing for Americans to have been sleepwalking about jihadism before 9/11 considering that it was almost entirely an overseas phenomenon, but what’s Pakistan’s excuse?
Too late now, in any case.
Islamabad’s defences are being hurriedly fortified, with paramilitary troops stationed on the Margalla Hills, which overlook the city from the West. In the capital, there are thousands of followers of the radical Red Mosque, where there are now open calls for Islamic revolution at the weekly Friday prayers.
“The Taliban will not stop at Swat. They will come towards Islamabad,” said Hasan Askari Rizvi, a military analyst based in Lahore. “If the army is to take action against them, it is going to be a really bloody battle. And then civil government will be knocked out.”
“Extremist groups based in Islamabad will move from within and they (Taliban) will build pressure from outside.”
According to the Telegraph, the Taliban actually invited a local reporter to record this as a warning to anyone who might see it of what’s coming. The Pakistani military liquidated 30 of them today, to serve notice that taking Islamabad won’t be easy, but there have been what seems like 100 of these halting operations over the last few years all following the same pattern: Tough talk from the government, incursion into the tribal areas, fighting ending in a stalemate, and finally “peace treaty” and withdrawal. I wonder how much territory they’ll get when the treaty ending this latest op is signed. Content warning.
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UK Daily Mail.
Wethal on April 26, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Forcing that idiotic election in Pakistan was one of the dumbest moves in years. Bring back Musharraf.
Muslim societies cannot control themselves and cannot be trusted with self-rule and individual liberty. Even Turkey is in the midst of having an islamic takeover of state powers, thanks to the EU forcing Turkey to change their constitution and take away supreme power from the military (which Turkish history has shown to be a necessity).
progressoverpeace on April 26, 2009 at 6:24 PM
Was this done by the “moderate” Taliban Comrade Obama and Comrade Biden told us about?
FreeThinkerNYC on April 26, 2009 at 6:25 PM
For every picture shown of our “supposed” torture activities( which is crap), two of these scenes need to be seen. Moral relativize that, leftists.
MNDavenotPC on April 26, 2009 at 6:26 PM
Hey, what’s Obama’s golf score so far?
Fletch54 on April 26, 2009 at 6:26 PM
Daily mail link for first post.
gh on April 26, 2009 at 6:26 PM
Have the Taliban lost the moral high ground yet with liberals?
Loxodonta on April 26, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Ah, I remember London in better days…..
Pakistan?
Never mind.
frizzbee on April 26, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Heh.
progressoverpeace on April 26, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Taliban schmaliban. 0 has more important things to worry about, like your energy consumption.
Ugly on April 26, 2009 at 6:29 PM
Wonder how many Pakistanis will try to flee to safety with those infidel Hindus in India. After Mumbai, I can’t see the Indians welcoming them, if only in consideration of their own security.
Wethal on April 26, 2009 at 6:30 PM
These are truly despicable people. Pakistan needs to wake up quickly.
Northstar on April 26, 2009 at 6:31 PM
We can learn a lot from Islam. Just dont waterboard terrorists.
the_nile on April 26, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Democracy worked out well for Condi Rice in Gaza, too.
Wethal on April 26, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Obama: Let’s release more Iraqi prisoner abuse photos. What could go wrong?
Loxodonta on April 26, 2009 at 6:32 PM
I somehow can’t shake the feeling that the very people who forced Musharraf out are the ones ruling the roost at the State and I also can’t shake the feeling that the cronies of Obama had something to do with it.
The left, NYT and the Soros crowd howled out loud about Pakistan’s lack of democracy and forced Musharraf out. The irony is the new government headed by Bhuttos who were actually responsible for the creation of the Taliban.
promachus on April 26, 2009 at 6:33 PM
they take over Pakistan then its everyone gang up on Pakistan – i mean us, china, india, russia, etc
Defector01 on April 26, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Call New Delhi. Cry havoc!, and let slip the
dogscows of war.JohnGalt23 on April 26, 2009 at 6:34 PM
This is par for the course with them. This isn’t nearly as brutal as a lot of stuff that they do.
Barbarism doesn’t even begin to describe it.
PBoilermaker on April 26, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Nuke from orbit. Only way to be sure.
the_nile on April 26, 2009 at 6:35 PM
If this goes very wrong, and Hillary’s “smart diplomacy” (whatever that is) doesn’t work, be prepared for Obama buck-passing: “I inherited this situation.”
Wethal on April 26, 2009 at 6:35 PM
Dear Leader shot a 36, with 11 holes in one.
conservnut on April 26, 2009 at 6:36 PM
allahuakbar?
RightWinged on April 26, 2009 at 6:37 PM
Obama: We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world — including in my own country.
Loxodonta on April 26, 2009 at 6:37 PM
This, of course, plays into Russia’s hands, as the US will need supply routes through the old Soviet republics even more. So we’ll look the other way when Putin moves into Georgia and then the Ukraine.
Wethal on April 26, 2009 at 6:37 PM
Michael Moore’s Freedom fighters.
William Amos on April 26, 2009 at 6:39 PM
I doubt that it is just the Taliban that is doing all this. Any true follower of Mohammad would do these kinds of things. Not that the Taliban aren’t doing much/most of this, but I suspect that “Taliban” is being used as an “umbrella” term.
MB4 on April 26, 2009 at 6:39 PM
Well at least they weren’t tortured or water board or something …
tarpon on April 26, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Now, now! Let’s not judge their sadomasochistic hegemony against our own, which is just as brutal and…um, unempowering. Both are equally, um, …help, need a good Ward Churchill quote here.
Western_Civ on April 26, 2009 at 6:40 PM
I’m glad they didn’t water-board them… That would be barbaric.
Claypigeon on April 26, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Look for a timed mutiny within the military too.
Not sure how big it will be but I suspect there are pro-Taliban elements waiting for the “moment”.
artist on April 26, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Evil.
getalife on April 26, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Solution to the Gitmo problem:
Photoshop some pictures of all the detainees committing adultery and distribute the pictures to anyone who believes in sharia law.
Daggett on April 26, 2009 at 6:41 PM
This is pure evil.
Kini on April 26, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Unfortunately, Bush had a bug up his azz about “democracy” (and Condi, too, as Wethal pointed out). The Precedent and his gang of lunatics are certainly far worse but they come at these problems from different angles – like trying to ally with the Taliban and any other America-haters. Treason doesn’t bother The Precedent, or any of his brain-dead toadies. They seem to really like the feeling of betraying the US.
progressoverpeace on April 26, 2009 at 6:42 PM
And the NY Times
Kini on April 26, 2009 at 6:42 PM
Still waiting for even one example of what the Islamic faith has done to shape this country for the better.
AZCoyote on April 26, 2009 at 6:42 PM
Just because they torture too lets not do this too.
Okay cons?
getalife on April 26, 2009 at 6:43 PM
It’s not illegal in sharia land. You dhimmi.
the_nile on April 26, 2009 at 6:43 PM
What? These are just a bunch of guys living in caves, what harm can they possibly cause?
I’m thinking when you need to fortify the edge of your large cities against terrorists, you are probably in a bad way.
Bishop on April 26, 2009 at 6:43 PM
That’s very true. And I would note that it was not a coincidence that The Precedent got a 37 on his bowling outing!
progressoverpeace on April 26, 2009 at 6:44 PM
MOAB these effing a-holes.
BallisticBob on April 26, 2009 at 6:44 PM
Those are your, and your Precedent’s, allies you’re talking about.
progressoverpeace on April 26, 2009 at 6:45 PM
Calling them animals would be a great disservice to animals.
This is abominable.
Gothguy on April 26, 2009 at 6:46 PM
Great, now cons will want to kill cheaters too.
getalife on April 26, 2009 at 6:46 PM
Clueless Condi.
Condi is a dangerous incompetent
Considering her remarks about America’s “birth defect” — an egregious term for any secretary of state to use about a nation that has brought more liberty to more races, colors and creeds than any in history — I am struck anew how deeply Rice’s vision of race in America, or, perhaps, in segregated Birmingham, affects her vision of America in the wider world. It is as if Rice sees American influence as a means by which to address what she perceives as disparities of race or Third World heritage on the international level.
This would help explain her ahistorical habit of linking the civil rights movement to the Bush administration’s effort to bring democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan. Indeed, in a 2003 speech to the National Association of Black Journalists, she argued that blacks, more than others, should “reject” the “condescending” argument that some are not “ready” for freedom. “That view was wrong in 1963 in Birmingham and it’s wrong in 2003 in Baghdad,” she said. In 2006, she made a similar point. “When I look around the world and I hear people say, `Well, you know, they’re just not ready for democracy,’ it really does resonate,” Rice told CBS’s Katie Couric. “It makes me so angry because I think there are those echoes of what people once thought about black Americans.”
There’s something shockingly provincial at work here. In seeing so much of the world through an American prism of race, Rice has effectively blinded herself to historical and cultural and religious differences between Islam and the West. To put it simply, neither Baghdad nor Gaza is Birmingham. And nothing in all of history quite compares to Philadelphia.
- Diana West
MB4 on April 26, 2009 at 6:46 PM
This is going to get a whole lot more ugly as this cancer moves closer to Islamabad.
I would not be surprised if India does a preempt just to make the Taliban glow in the dark
Kini on April 26, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Savages.
saus on April 26, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Compare this:
Some day the libs will recognize that it is Christianity that has brought them tolerance and has liberated women. But by then it may be too late.
Christian Conservative on April 26, 2009 at 6:48 PM
That would be one of the best things that could happen (and should have been allowed to happen back in 2003).
progressoverpeace on April 26, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Evil.
getalife on April 26, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Judgmental and arrogant.
hmmm.
This is fun, no?
artist on April 26, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Another example of what appeasing and accommodating the medieval and barbaric religion of Islam will bring further down the road to a sharia neighbourhood near you.
Jabba The Cat on April 26, 2009 at 6:50 PM
No , these islamofascist are your friends. And they legalized it.
the_nile on April 26, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Horror.
Well, that’s what appeasement will bring you. Are you listening, libs? Say, what did Dinnerjacket have to say about this?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on April 26, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Shaping our country? Like when Islamists de-cluttered the New York city skyline by ramming passenger jets full of innocent people into the Twin Towers and knocking them down? Yeah, thanks for that. Thanks a lot.
AZCoyote on April 26, 2009 at 6:50 PM
The ultimate radiation treatment to rid the world of this cancer
Kini on April 26, 2009 at 6:51 PM
Does Kerry have time for a hearing on this?
artist on April 26, 2009 at 6:51 PM
the_nile on April 26, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Yeah, they torture too.
cons have a lot in common with the taliban..
getalife on April 26, 2009 at 6:51 PM
There is getalife again, the faux Obama supporter who won’t even give up his mental masturbating on Hotair long enough to call the U.S. Army or U.S. Marine requiter to help his President in Afghanistan and maybe Pakistan later. And to compound all that he doesn’t even have any new material, in spite of the fact that many others on another thread gave him plenty of it. Getalife, you are a disgrace to your President.
MB4 on April 26, 2009 at 6:53 PM
But killing or maiming them with Predator drones, as Obama has been doing, is ok, then.
Wethal on April 26, 2009 at 6:53 PM
Getalife has a lot in common with a talking Chia Pet.
MB4 on April 26, 2009 at 6:54 PM
I support him.
Look in the mirror.
Yeah, you are looking at the disgrace.
getalife on April 26, 2009 at 6:54 PM
Well, my lands, isn’t apparent to all that the the Taliban doesn’t waterboard either?
Amendment X on April 26, 2009 at 6:54 PM
Ouch , your mother shouldn’t say that to you.
the_nile on April 26, 2009 at 6:56 PM
We should go old school roman empire and subjugate then civilize these animals.
Stickeehands on April 26, 2009 at 6:56 PM
Who is performing at Wed night’s White House party?
stenwin77 on April 26, 2009 at 6:57 PM
Yes, it is legal and not a war crime.
getalife on April 26, 2009 at 6:57 PM
Those are liberals for you.
Obama fights to let a baby die a gruesome death if it’s born alive during a botched abortion.
But we dare not make our mortal enemies uncomfortable when we ask them questions.
Daggett on April 26, 2009 at 6:57 PM
Define “war crime,” please.
Wethal on April 26, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Wethal on April 26, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Google it.
getalife on April 26, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Whose idea was it for Pakistan to become independent of India, anyway? I think we should let the Indians take it back over.
joe_doufu on April 26, 2009 at 6:58 PM
It doesn’t violate Pakistani airspace?
Upstater85 on April 26, 2009 at 6:59 PM
What is your definition of “war crime”? There is more than one. What’s yours?
Wethal on April 26, 2009 at 7:00 PM
John Kerry’s not so secret any longer MySpace entry:
Hi there fellow bloggers. My name is United States Senator John Forbes Kerry from the great state of Massachusetts. You can call me JFK if you want. I was born on December 11, 1943, although people tell me that I look at least 20 years younger. It’s probably my great hair and rugged good looks.
I graduated from Yale in June 1966 in the top 1% of my class. To earn extra money during the summers, I loaded trucks in a grocery warehouse and sold encyclopedias door to door. That is probably one of the reasons that I am so humble. Over my four years at Yale, I maintained a 96 grade average and received a 101 average in my senior year.
I am one of the most senior members of that grand and much loved and respected institution known as the U.S. Senate. Probably the only living Senator even a little bit greater than me is my dear friend Ted Moore Kennedy. I also have a very high IQ. Very high. At least 250 on a bad day. Much higher than that creep who stole the election from me. I know that he stole it because exit polls are never ever wrong.
I am also a great war hero. I set all kinds of records for heroism when I was in Vietnam. I was grievously wounded at least three times yet continued to insist on staying in the fight when lesser men would have given up. I won the bronze star with extra V’s for extra valor and the Silver Star for defeating a whole battalion of NVA with my bare hands.
Sometimes I feel like a had to carry all the water for those other ungrateful swiftboaters.
I sometimes like to chill out after a long day of serving the American people by having a double martini with my good friend Ted. We usually have our servant getalife, when she is not too busy making a complete fool out of herself on Hotair, bring us 21 double martinis. I get one and Ted gets one for each of his fingers and each of his toes. Contrary to what some of my very few enemies say I never marry women for just their money. They must also have a pulse. BTW, did I mention that I was in Vietnam? I was also in Cambodia, so don’t forget that!
I would like to think that I am open minded, honest, polite, heroic and trustworthy. And I appreciate the same qualities in others although I am realistic enough to know that no one else could come close to me.
Turn offs: other politicians who spend more on haircuts than I do. That is just not right.
Who I’d like to meet:
…other progressive bloggers. Other great war heroes who hate that damn S-T-U-P-I-D Texan in the White House and those lying sons of #itcher swiftboat #astardos whose pants are on fire! Cool people who live close to Washington D.C. so that we can get together, talk about you for about 30 seconds and then spend about 9 hours talking about me. BTW, did I mention that I was in Vietnam and Cambodia? Just one more BTW, if anyone has found my magic hat please return to me.
MB4 on April 26, 2009 at 7:00 PM
See, there is a difference between when someone asks you for your definition and what “the” definition is. The only thing to be taken from this is that your definition is that of the talking heads.
Upstater85 on April 26, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Not with their permission silly.
getalife on April 26, 2009 at 7:00 PM
You’re evil , defending your Islamic friends when they murder.
the_nile on April 26, 2009 at 7:01 PM
Hmmm… OK, and how do you know they gave it? How do you know they gave it every single time we sent a drone over?
Upstater85 on April 26, 2009 at 7:02 PM
the_nile on April 26, 2009 at 7:01 PM
I don’t want our President to fail in defeating them.
getalife on April 26, 2009 at 7:02 PM
Pakistan objects to Predator drone strikes
Wethal on April 26, 2009 at 7:02 PM
Just a request HA readers – there are decent Muslims all over the world – lets not forget those in Iraq and Afghanistan who have genuinely welcomed a chance to live a life that is free and promises a better future. Those people who see these videos will thank the US that they wont be subject to such totalitarian nightmares.
The Taliban/AQ on the other hand are worse than vermin and have never gotten past the 5th century -and they are the creation of Pakistan ( whose creation in itself was the biggest tragedy post-Holocaust.)
The Paki military jihadi complex is so transparently revealing now, and this is exactly why the US is creeped out.
Pakistan has been “fighting” this war for 8 years now – and they now have the Taliban within 50 miles of their capital Islamabad – tells you how real the fighting was.
Hillary, can we get a “reset” button for AfPak ?
nagee76 on April 26, 2009 at 7:03 PM
They aren’t people.
Professor Blather on April 26, 2009 at 7:04 PM
Upstater85 on April 26, 2009 at 7:02 PM
It is legal and they agreed.
How about a little support in this war?
getalife on April 26, 2009 at 7:04 PM
Bring back Musharraf.
tjexcite on April 26, 2009 at 7:04 PM
Can’t be true!
I refuse to believe the truth!
Upstater85 on April 26, 2009 at 7:04 PM
Bush Doctrine in action…..get used to it.
Bush pushed the Taliban into Pak, so he could “enable” the “spread of freedom” in Afghanistan.
Now the Taliban have forced the Pak government to cede the Swat valley to them, and they are in a days push of some of the Pak nuke sites.
Now Afghanistan is a failed state, Iraq is on its way to being a failed state, and Pak is on its way to being Lebanon, with the Taliban playing the part of Hizb’ allah and with the added bonus of around 100 nukes.
genius, eh?
strangelet on April 26, 2009 at 7:05 PM
This video shows the future of the world unless we stop them. We have been fighting these people and their evil ideology for several years. Yet now, in our own country, while the World Trade Center still remains a hole in our soil, the camel’s nose has entered into our tent.
Blaming America and coddling terrorists are now more important than protecting our nation and the world. If we don’t wake up, the whole camel will be in our tent, and we will be subjected to the tyranny of Sharia law here.
Loxodonta on April 26, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Please, we gave them billions.
Come on.
getalife on April 26, 2009 at 7:05 PM
And if not, am I
U-N-P-A-T-R-I-O-T-I-C ?
Again, you claim it’s legal and they agreed, but unless you are more intimate with Teh One than I think, I don’t see how you know this. What about Wethal’s link?
Upstater85 on April 26, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Hear that getty? Obama = Bush.
Upstater85 on April 26, 2009 at 7:07 PM
You do not support your President. You are all show and no go. Actually not even much show anymore. If you did support your President you would be in the U.S. Army or U.S. Marines to help him in Afghanistan and maybe Pakistan later. You keep letting your President down. You are an utter disgrace. What will you tell your children?
MB4 on April 26, 2009 at 7:07 PM
Cuz it needs repeating.
JohnJ on April 26, 2009 at 7:07 PM
We gave the Palestinians billions… Therefore we should use them as target practice… yeah, brilliant, Einstein!
Upstater85 on April 26, 2009 at 7:08 PM
To getalife there is one easy explination to everything:
Any Obama action = leagal, honest, and necessary
Any Bush action = Illegal, lying and a war crime
Even if they are both the same action (there are many instances of Obama carrying on Bush policies). Any more thought into the matter would hurt his/her brain.
Scrappy on April 26, 2009 at 7:08 PM
So even though they object, they shouldn’t, because they’ve been bought. IMplied consent is a tricky legal concept. Perhaps you should explain how consent is implied while objection is overt.
Still waiting for your definition of “war crime.”
Wethal on April 26, 2009 at 7:08 PM
I’m still waiting for her definition of legal vs illegal… It’s an evolving definition.
Upstater85 on April 26, 2009 at 7:09 PM
Come on cons.
We are at war.
Support the troops.
getalife on April 26, 2009 at 7:09 PM
Exactly , lets watarboard our enemies.
the_nile on April 26, 2009 at 7:10 PM
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