The temperature outside was 104 degrees Fahrenheit outside but in the house made of
thick mud bricks it was a more comfortable 80 or so degree.
Three iron faced men stood near the far wall. They stroked their beards, as if
that would make them smarter, and watched as two powerful men dragged a young girl into
the room.
Behind them an older woman almost on her knees, with tears in her eyes, was begging
the men to let the young woman go. “Oh please do not do this to my daughter. She didn’t
mean anything wrong. She is so young.”
The three bearded men looked down on the old woman and said nothing. The men
dragged the young woman to a large wooden rack and tied her spread-eagle. Then they
pulled out small sharp knives from their robes and began to slice off the woman’s
clothing. Bit by bit her clothes fell to the floor.
When she realized what they were doing she began to scream and beg them not to
strip her naked as the sharp knives cut off most of her clothes. “Please do not take off
my clothes, please I beg you.”
One of the men grabbed her hair and pulled her head back. “Be quiet or we give you
more lashes, slut.”
As soon as the last of her silk blouse was ripped off her, the man grabbed at her
pants. The young woman fought the men as hard as she could as her mother screamed and
begged them not to hurt her.
The old woman came up to one of the men and pulled at his robe. “Please don’t do
this to my daughter, I beg you.”
Again the man looked at her and pushed her away without saying anything.
The men cut off her belt and began to slice off her pants the way they had done to
her blouse, a bit at a time.
After several minutes they pulled off the last of her American made jeans.
The woman, now wearing only her panties and bra, cried as the men tightened the
ropes on her. The mother was dragged out of the room still begging for them not to hurt
her daughter. “But please, all she did was dance. What is the great evil in that? She
is just a young woman. She did not mean any harm.”
One of the men with a knife turned on her. “What is the evil? This woman is a
slut. Look at her. Look at the whores clothes she wears. She makes everyone enraged.
She must be punished.”
Another man, carrying a long cane whip, came into the room. He stood in front of
the wailing woman and looked at her for some time.
Then he said to the men, “She has been found guilty of breaking Islamic law. She
does not deserve any mercy. Strip her! Let her be naked in front of all so I can beat
the devil out of her body.”
The men’s eyes grew large as they walked back to her with their knives out. Their
faces let the room see that they were enjoying their task.
The men were there to carry out the sentence but they were doing much more. And the
three bearded men watched the men and didn’t mind that the men were getting so much
pleasure from the pain they gave the woman.
The thought of being naked in front of all of those men caused her to go into a
rage. She screamed and threw herself against the ropes and tried to break out from them.
A man grabbed her hair and slapped the woman across the face so hard her face
became a huge red spot on her body.
When she had screamed herself out, the man with the whip put the cane on her bare
back.
“The court did not give you a number of lashes. They charged me to whip the devil
from your body. I can see that it will take some time to get the devils from your body
but I will get all of them out of you. No matter how long it takes.”
The woman spat at him. She said, “Where in the Koran does it say you can enjoy
giving others pain?”
The man pulled his robe away and exposed himself to her. “Look at this woman. I
am a man and you are just a woman. Do not know anything about the Koran? I am your teacher
and I will teach you to be a good woman and I will drive the evil from you.”
The young woman found her mind and forgot her fear of the men. “You can rip the
skin off of my back but you can never take my mind.”
“Just another devil to get out of your body. You must call me teacher.”
“Teacher, my ass! You are just a dirty old man that has no right to do this to
me.”
He turned to the other men. “Strip this slut of all her clothes. They are the
devil’s work. When I am done with her we will give her proper clothes for a woman.”
The men with their knives had been waiting for him to give them that order. The
men knew how to make the poor woman suffer. With their knives out, they walked slowly up
to her. They made sure that the woman knew precisely what they were going to do to her.
They knew that she had the courage not to scream and beg any more but they still knew how
to make her fear them.
They enjoyed watching her body shiver and seeing bits of sweat fall from her body
as the knives sliced off her clothes.
The three bearded men watched and enjoyed the performance the other men gave them.
When the woman was stripped and tied so tight she could just breathe, the man with
the cane turned to the place where the bearded men stood. “I am ready to give the
punishment.”
The three men looked at each other and then they nodded at the man. One of them
said, “The court says you may begin. Save this woman from the Great Satan.”
The man bowed to them. “I will not stop until I have forced the evil from her
body.”
The bearded men nodded at him and stepped back to let him work.
The man put a hard lash across her back that made her jump on the rack that she was
roped too. She said, “What kind of a man are you that you would do this to a woman?”
The man pulled his arm back as he said, “I will beat the devils out of you woman,
for your own good and our family’s good.”
As he spoke, he hit her again and she jerked on the ropes again.
He smiled as the young woman pulled at the ropes and waited for the next lash.
Then he looked over at the three bearded men and waited for them to nod or smile at him as
a signal to continue.
As the three men gave him the sign the man looked over his cane and wiped off some
of the blood on it, then he pulled his arm back and gave the woman another lash.
After several more lashes one of the bearded men waved his hand gesturing the
teacher to him.
“When you are done with this woman I will take her into my house to complete
lessons. Be careful where your whip lands. I do not want her damaged so much that I
cannot give her the lessons she needs.”
The man looked back at the young woman. “It is great that you would do that for
her. Oh yes she is lucky that a great man like you would help her like this. But she has
an evil mouth and I have to beat this out of her.”
“I have heard it said many times that you are a great teacher too. I am sure that
one as good as you could cleave the evil from her without doing serious damage to her.”
He looked back at the young woman again and back to the bearded man. “Yes but that
is very hard to do, even for me.”
The bearded man took a silk purse out of his robes and rattled them. The sound of
several gold coins filled the other man’s ears. “I know it will be hard and I would not
ask you to do this without giving you something in return.”
The man put his hand out. “Oh, you are a great man.”
The bearded man smiled and slipped a gold coin into the man’s hand. “That is to
keep your mind working. The rest when it is done.”
The man looked at the coins and at the bearded man. It was not what he wanted but
he knew that was the best he would get so he smiled and said. “Of course. It will be
done as you want it.”
The bearded man walked back to his other men as the man started to lash the young
woman again. The bearded man smiled and turned his attention to his other friends.
“This is not the fault of this woman or even her mother. This is the work of the
Great Satan in the United States.”
“Yes the Great Satan. But we injured him, very badly, in his own den.”
“Yes we injured him but not enough to make him go way from us. We have not done
enough to kill the Great Satan.”
“I have known you for many years and I can see it in your eyes, you have a plan in
mind.”
“Yes my friend I do have a plan. It is a wonderful plan. It will demand our best
men and huge amounts of money.”
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