From Real Clear Politics:WASHINGTON -- "Leave me for the moment -- you can beat me again later," a 17-year-old woman begs between sobs in a video airing on Pakistan's private television networks and now posted on the Internet. But the local Taliban commander continues to flog her without mercy as a group of village men watch in silence.
These images were described in a recent New York Times dispatch, which noted that the alleged transgressions of the woman could not be definitively established. The range of possible violations of the Taliban's version of Islamic law -- from stepping outside her house without a male escort to having an illicit affair -- is appallingly vast.
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