So contract killing is legal in India?
But why aren’t these guys just summarily arrested without bail as a threat to public safety? You can’t put out public hits on people! Can you? Except in failed states, and in violent hidden enclaves (where ‘public’ is only semi-public). You can’t just get together in a cozy pally group and say ‘Kill this person and we’ll give you a lot of money’ and be reported in the newspapers as saying that and just go chuckling about your business – can you?
Muslim clerics in Kolkata issued a “death warrant” against controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen on Friday, threatening her life if she did not leave the country where she lives in exile. The threat came after a meeting of dozens of clerics from prominent mosques in Kolkata – where the writer lives – who said she had invited their wrath through her “repeated criticism” of Islam in her books and speeches. While one prominent cleric said Nasreen had a month to leave, another said she had 15 days. Anyone who killed her would get a cash reward of 100,000 rupees ($2,400), they said. “Anyone who executes the warrant will also be given additional rewards,” said Nurur Rehman Barkati, a cleric of one of the biggest mosques in Kolkata.
So there they all are, with names, mosques, amounts offered all given. So why aren’t they all occupying a Kolkata jail cell? Why isn’t their ability to offer anyone a monetary reward for murdering a novelist severely compromised by their occupation of a room nine feet by six with bars on the window and door? Why don’t ‘clerical’ thugs who put out hits on people get instantly busted for incitement to murder?
Answers on a postcard.
There at least seem to beplenty of people in India who agree with you, although not necessarily for reasons you would support.
“But why aren’t these guys just summarily arrested without bail as a threat to public safety?”
“Members of a Muslim political party assaulted Taslima Nasreen…”
Does that put a stamp of sorts on the postcard? Or what?
‘although not necessarily for reasons you would support.’
I know…it’s so depressing using google news for this kind of story, because almost all the news outlets that come up have ‘Hindu’ in the name. That’s not what I’m looking for! Where is everyone else?!
OB,
Remember, this is the country where scientific debunkers of Hindu mystic’s tricks (e.g. pulling cars attached to hooks through the skin of the back, passing needles through cheeks, tongue,etc without pain) undergo martial arts training to protect themselves from the mystics’ supporters…
EEEEVIL PASTOR CALLS FOR POLITICAL MURDER – USA,USA!
Jesse Jackson Ally Calls for “Snuffing Out” Gun Store Owner:
In a stunning audio recording of Pfleger’s remarks, the pastor of St. Sabina’s Church can clearly be heard stating, “John Riggio … we’re going to find you and snuff you out.” Moments later, Pfleger added, “We’re going to snuff out John Riggio, we’re going to snuff out legislators that are voting … against our gun laws and we’re coming for you because we are not going to sit idly.”
http://www.volokh.com/posts/1180477447.shtml
-You are right. National laws against incitement to murder should be immediately acted on.