Veena Malik is a beautiful, talented, and tough-skinned Pakistani actress. Last year, she appeared on "Bigg Boss", the Indian version of Big Brother. As part of the show ("reality TV" is of course heavily scripted) Malik played into a romantic situation with Indian actor Ashmit Patel. This stirred up quite a controversy, partly because Malik, a Pakistani, was working in India, and also because her appearance and romantic dalliance on a secular show was considered by fundamentalist Muslims to be disgraceful.
Last January, Malik was invited by Kamran Shahid to be a guest on his popular talk show. Shahid confronted Malik with charges that she had brought shame to Pakistan, and then turned the show over to Mufti Abdul Qavi, who attempted to further shame Malik by stating, "No one in Pakistan can look at her pictures in the presence of their daughters."
Sure, the whole thing was probably a setup, but Veena Malik's fiery response to Mufti Qavi simply has to be seen to be believed. Seriously -- she Hands. Him. His. Ass. On. A. Plate. With a heapin' helping of whoop-ass on the side. MEMRI-TV recently uploaded a video of the episode, with English translations:
Fundamentalists of any stripe always have difficulty facing the fact that they have been bested by someone they consider to be inferior. I'm sure the pain is twice as intense when the besting is done by turning their own fundamentalist rules around against them, which Malik does brilliantly. (Alinsky's Tactic #4 - Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.)
The fact that Veena Malik is still alive two months after such a fierce attack on a respected Muslim cleric is noteworthy in itself, but of course it does not imply that she is out of danger.
The only way fundamentalist Islam will be subdued is if its practitioners become shamed in the eyes of the public. It is a slow and difficult method of achieving victory, but it is probably the only method that will truly be effective. Bravo to Veena Malik for doing her part to steer her people in the right direction.
(h/t BoingBoing and my friend Greg at The Parish, via Facebook)
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Tags: Ashmit Patel, Islamic fundamentalism, Pakistan, Veena Malik
Comments (12)
Radical islamica fatwa in 3... (Below threshold)1. Posted by TexBob | March 22, 2011 7:27 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Radical islamica fatwa in 3...2...1...
1. Posted by TexBob | March 22, 2011 7:27 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on March 22, 2011 19:27
2. Posted by Will | March 22, 2011 7:30 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Is that fool in hiding now? I can't believe she didn't inspire some real men to give that twerp a well deserved a$% whupping.
2. Posted by Will | March 22, 2011 7:30 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on March 22, 2011 19:30
3. Posted by jim2 | March 22, 2011 7:40 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Wow!
What a lady!
3. Posted by jim2 | March 22, 2011 7:40 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on March 22, 2011 19:40
4. Posted by LibertyAtStake | March 22, 2011 7:58 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Xena has nothing on Veena.
d(^_^)b
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4. Posted by LibertyAtStake | March 22, 2011 7:58 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on March 22, 2011 19:58
5. Posted by Caesar Augustus | March 22, 2011 8:33 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
I've never been so jealous of a chair...
5. Posted by Caesar Augustus | March 22, 2011 8:33 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on March 22, 2011 20:33
6. Posted by John F Not Kerry | March 22, 2011 10:43 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Wow. The only way I would have been more impressed is if she had said "And just who the fuck are you?"
6. Posted by John F Not Kerry | March 22, 2011 10:43 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on March 22, 2011 22:43
7. Posted by hcddbz | March 22, 2011 11:00 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
R E S P E C T Tell me what it means to ME
Should be her theme song. Now if we could get more people like here to stand up say something.
7. Posted by hcddbz | March 22, 2011 11:00 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on March 22, 2011 23:00
8. Posted by Brett | March 22, 2011 11:17 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
That is one impressive ass-whooping!
8. Posted by Brett | March 22, 2011 11:17 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on March 22, 2011 23:17
9. Posted by Gmac | March 22, 2011 11:19 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
"That's going to leave a mark."
Well played on her part, she completely reversed the situation and in the process made the imam look like a complete ass. He's not going to live that down in his culture.
9. Posted by Gmac | March 22, 2011 11:19 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on March 22, 2011 23:19
10. Posted by John F Not Kerry | March 23, 2011 8:53 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
This is why they want to keep women uneducated, isolated, and covered up.
10. Posted by John F Not Kerry | March 23, 2011 8:53 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on March 23, 2011 08:53
11. Posted by BlueNight | March 24, 2011 1:31 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
A modern-day Scheherazade.
11. Posted by BlueNight | March 24, 2011 1:31 AM |
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Posted on March 24, 2011 01:31
12. Posted by bigdave | May 12, 2011 12:11 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
What a magnificent woman! Kick some Islamic hipocritical butt there girl! Very similar to the leftstream media here interviewing Sarah Palin, another magnificent woman!
12. Posted by bigdave | May 12, 2011 12:11 PM |
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Posted on May 12, 2011 12:11