In reference to the practice of lashing: “The government says we shouldn’t go things [sic] like this public punishment, but we don’t follow their orders. We follow the orders of Allah!” (Radio sermon)Nicholas Schmidle, “The Ambitions of the Pakistan Taliban’s New Chief,” New Yorker, November 11, 2014, http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-ambitions-of-the-pakistani-talibans-new-chiefhttp://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-ambitions-of-the-pakistani-talibans-new-chief.