Pakistani Actress Fearlessly, Furiously Assails Hard-Core "Cleric" In TV "Courtroom"

You've set this interview up as a trial, she says. So I demand justice.

Allah had this yesterday and offers some ruminations.

There are three types of prominent people in her country today, it seems: Taliban, those recently killed by the Taliban, and those being threatened with death by the Taliban. She’s in neither the first nor second category, so she must be in the third. And so she is.

Quoting from that last link of Allah's:

Malik’s media manager, Sohail Rashid informed that the letter was sent by a man called Maulana Ahmed Masood, who claimed to be the head of Tehreek-e-Taliban.

According to the Express Tribune, a media house in Pakistan handed over the letter to Veena and they confirmed the authenticity of the source.

"The letter says that Tehreek-e-Taliban has taken a decision as a Muslim to punish Veena Malik soon. We want our daughters and sisters in our homes only and Veena Malik, who is humiliating Pakistan's name in India, will be punished soon," Rashid quoted from the letter.

"We are soon going to punish Veena Malik so that our future generations may be afraid of going to India. It is the responsibility of all Pakistanis and Muslims, but now we are going to accomplish it," he read.

So in that context, understand that she was risking -- risking isn't the right word -- guaranteeing Taliban "punishment" by not rolling over for this absurd bearded fascism-monkey and instead listing the litany of immoralities he's responsible for -- such as rape of children in their psychopathic death-cults, and, of course, terrorism.

She also begins reciting stupid edicts from this grotesque monster's religion about his needing to be punished for looking upon her more than once ("in her present condition," she says, which I guess means with her face and neck visible).

If you watch one video all week, make it this one. You don't often see good and wisdom clash directly on camera with evil and stupidity, and you usually don't get to see good decide to drop the politeness act and get mean.

It's just bizarre. On one hand you have someone who's attractive, intelligent, and productive -- she actually has a talent people are willing to pay money for.

On the other hand, you have a fat, ugly mentally-stunted savage who can do nothing except spout sentences from a book he's read obsessively since he was four and deign to judge those who are clearly superior to him in all ways (including, it seems, in his pet specialty of strict Islamic code-repeating).

And the bizarre thing, of course, is that in Pakistan, the person you think "won" in the court of public opinion probably lost.

Given the choice between lovely and loathsome... They're going to choose loathsome.

posted by Ace at 01:21 PM

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