Friday 29 January 2016

"£50000 for Your Dead Son, Effendi!" Says Madrasa Mufti.

"So, when you clash with the unbelieving Infidels in battle, smite their necks until you overpower them, killing & wounding many of them. At length, when you have thoroughly subdued them, bind them firmly, making captives. Thereafter, either generosity or ransom until the war lays down its burdens. Thus are you commanded by Allah to continue carrying out Jihad against the unbelieving infidels until they submit to Islam." So Allah tells his frothing fanatics, in verse 47:4 of his gibbering & incoherent Koran.

Kidnapping for ransom is an intrinsic part of Islamic practice; just ask Terry Waite or the US sailors just back from Iran. Asking for the equivalent of £50000 for a son who was already dead, however, does take some chutzpah. This is, nevertheless, what an instructor from a madrasa did recently in Saharanpur, India.

Question: if Islam is so peaceful & lovely, & it is only people who misinterpret it that do horrific things, why is a mullah from a madrasa also a bit of a monster? There is, unfortunately, no answer to this in yesterday's report from the Deccan Herald (hat-tip to The Religion of Peace):

Gang tries to extort Rs 50 lakh to 'release' dead boy

A madrasa teacher and two others have been arrested for demanding Rs 50 lakh to hand over a 12-year-old boy who was already dead, killed by another gang which had kidnapped him last year.

The boy's decomposed body was found days after his kidnapping and his alleged killers, three juveniles, nabbed.

But last week, the madrasa teacher and his accomplices told the boy's father that he was still alive and in their possession, police said on Wednesday.

Mohammad Burahanuddin, Sameer and Billa were nabbed in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur. Burahanuddin is a mufti at a madrasa.

On January 20, Jafrabad-based businessman Mehraz Hassan received a call on his mobile phone, demanding the money. "They claimed that his son Adi was in their possession," said Deputy Commissioner of Police (North East) Veenu Bansal.

Another ransom call was made on Jan 21 following which Mehraz filed a complaint with Jafrabad police station.

A case under sections 387 (putting person in fear of death to commit extortion) and 507 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code was registered. A police team went to Saharanpur and arrested the three men.

Burahanuddin told police that he had met Mehraz in December 2015. Mehraz believed in Burahanuddin's spiritual powers, police said. As Adi's body was decomposed and couldn't be identified, Mehraz believed that he may have been still alive.

Burahanuddin told Mehraz that he will find a solution. At the same time, Burahanuddin conspired with a man named Tabrez to extort money with the help of his associates.

"Tabrez and his accomplices had made the ransom call. Mehraz was threatened not to inform police," Bansal said.

Kidnapping

Last year, three juveniles living in the neighbourhood were apprehended for kidnapping and killing Mehraz's son. They had told police that they kidnapped Adi on September 13, kept his body at a rented accommodation for 24 hours, and later dumped it near a railway track in northeast Delhi's Mansarovar Park.

"They first forced Adi to consume cannabis and then strangled him," Bansal added.

The three juveniles were apprehended when they made a call to Mehraz demanding Rs 10 lakh.

Mehraz lives with his wife and two sons.

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