It was unnecessary. It was a tu quoque logical fallacy.

“Tu Quoque is a very common fallacy in which one attempts to defend oneself or another from criticism by turning the critique back against the accuser. This is a classic Red Herring since whether the accuser is guilty of the same, or a similar, wrong is irrelevant to the truth of the original charge. However, as a diversionary tactic, Tu Quoque can be very effective, since the accuser is put on the defensive, and frequently feels compelled to defend against the accusation. ” http://www.fallacyfiles.org/tuquoque.html

Had posted thi on wrong blog first

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,512785,00.html “Hussain said that upon questioning by the Islamic judge, she denied neighbors’ claims that she had been dragged from her home, held down and flogged. She also denied reports that she had been charged with having an illicit relationship with a local man — who witnesses claim also was beaten — or that the Taliban forced the two to marry, the Times reported.

Instead, Hussain said, the girl told the judge the man was her husband, and that the video was a fake distributed to disrupt the peace process in the region.

“We condemn the acts of repression against women…. But the incident depicted in the videotape never took place in Swat,” Hussain said. Related Stories

Pakistani officials had no comment Monday on the girl’s claims, a day after thousands of women turned out across the country to protest her alleged treatment.

But a spokesman for the Pakistani Embassy in Washington told FOXNews.com that the government is investigating the video to determine who, if anyone, is at fault.

“The people of Pakistan were outraged by this video and there are many questions: if this has been manufactured by some groups of vested interest, or if it is real. And so investigations are still going on,” said Nadeem Kiani, press attache for the embassy….”

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\04\05\story_5-4-2009_pg12_3 “KARACHI: Federal Minister Senator Azam Khan Swati of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) said on Saturday that the flogging of the 17-year-old girl in Swat was a Jewish conspiracy aimed at destroying peace in Swat and distort the image of those Islamists who sport beards and wear turbans….”

Those conspiratorial Jews sure get around framing Islamists for the beating of the 17 year old girl, for the 2008 November Mumbai Massacre (with the help of Hindus in this case), and the most famous was framing Islamists for 9-11.

And I thought that it was for taking revenge on Soviets for our defeat in Vietnam - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

Carter’s national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, has stated that the U.S. effort to aid the mujahideen was preceded by an effort to draw the Soviets into a costly and presumably distracting Vietnam War-like conflict. In a 1998 interview with the French news magazine Le Nouvel Observateur, Brzezinski recalled: “We didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would… That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Soviets into the Afghan trap… The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter, “We now have the opportunity of giving to the Soviet Union its Vietnam War.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/02/taliban-pakistan-justice-women-flogging

How are we going to stop this? How do we support the Pakistani activists working on this? Please comment if you’re interested in learning more about what you can do and what our activists at home are doing.

Thanks.

the law grants Shia husbands the right to have intercourse with their wives every fourth night.

Under the new measure, Shia women would be banned from working or receiving an education without their husbands’ permission,

And I thought we went to Afghanistan to save it from communist Russia not to push them back into dark ages.

they have to rename themselves Sir Mullah X.