Crime Has No Religion: Individual's Religion Doesn't Play Any Role In Making Them Blood-Thirsty
By
Sumit Paul, New Age Islam
16 November
2022
" Qaatil Apne Mazhab Ke Hisaab Se Qatl
Nahin Karta. Woh Qatl Karta Hai Uss Lamhe Ke Waqt Uski Dimaghi Kaifiyat Ke
Hisaab Se."
Justice Hidyatullah, Inquilab, 1961
(A murderer
doesn't murder, guided by the tenets of his faith. He perpetrates the crime
according to his mental state at that very moment)
It's really
exasperating how people, in these times of social media, are discussing and
associating heinous crimes with Muslims and condemning them.
Aftab Amin Poonawala, accused to have
murdered his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar, being brought to the Mehrauli
forest area, in New Delhi, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. | Photo Credit: PTI
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In the
latest blood-curdling murder of a young 'Hindu' woman Shraddha, the murderer
was her live-in partner Aftab, a Khoja Muslim, who hacked her to pieces.
A month
ago, one pervert masterminded the killings of two middle-aged women in Kerala
and cut their bodies into innumerable parts. He also happened to be a Muslim.
This has
made people believe that this particular community and its people are capable
of all sorts of bloody acts of crime. This is an utterly fallacious belief. Is
Indrani Mukherjea a Muslim? This over-ambitious woman got her daughter, Sheena
Bora, killed in the most foul manner. Was a promising Youth Congress leader
Sushil Sharma a Muslim, who murdered and burnt the body of his wife Naina Sahni
in a tandoor oven of a famous hotel in New Delhi in the 90s? Billa and Ranga
were Sikhs who raped and killed the siblings Sanjay and Gita Chopra in 1978 and
were eventually hanged in 1982. Dr N S Jain, a renowned eye surgeon in Delhi
who was the personal eye surgeon of then President of India V V Giri, hired
killers, Kartar Singh and Ujagar Singh, to murder his wife Vidya Jain in 1973.
He particularly instructed the killers to stab his wife multiple times!
Furthermore, he paid a pittance (he paid only Rs 500 !) to the hired killers
who were also hanged at Tihar Central Gaol.
My point is
humans are violent and an individual's religion simply doesn't play any role in
making them specifically blood-thirsty.
Mussolini,
Hitler and Stalin were also not Muslims.
Edward W
Said explained this flawed perception of criminality in a philosophically
cogent manner when he stated, " Criminal stereotyping will alienate humans
from humans. A man's faith doesn't decide as to how a gun, knife or a sword at
his disposal will eliminate people and in which way."
In these
times of hyperactive social media, we all seem to have become the arbiters of
human nature, passing judgements on people's behaviour from the snug comforts
of our four walls. Stop this idiocy and treat all as humans sans their stripes.
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A
regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul is a researcher in comparative
religions, with special reference to Islam. He has contributed articles to the
world's premier publications in several languages including Persian.
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