NOTE: I am in favour of the death penalty for terrorists,
regardless of their race and religion. I am not here to make fun of any
Muslims, I do have Muslim friends. Please see this post before reading this
current blog post.
I
would like to give my thoughts on the hanging of Ajmal Amir Kasab. First of
all, like the case of Jared Lee Loughner, he is guilty beyond any doubt! Kasab
was caught on CCTV and his shooting spree was witnessed by many survivors.
There is no way; any abolitionists can use the ‘innocence’ propaganda to say
that Kasab was wrongfully executed. I was satisfied that he was hung four years
after his terrorist activity and two years after he was sentenced to death, I
was glad that he did not need to live on death row for decades.
Just
like Amrozi the Smiling Assassin, Kasab was very nervous and afraid when facing
the gallows. He was also unremorseful for his crimes. The death penalty was not
a deterrent in this case, as it did not deter him and his terrorist buddies
from attacking Mumbai in 2008. The death penalty was justice for the survivors and
victims’ with their loved ones; it was also a protection for society, as Kasab
has now been permanently dispatched from society. Together with Alwaki, John Allen Muhammad, Osama Bin Laden, Hamam El-Kamouny, Amrozi, Imam Samudra and Mukhlas, Kasab is now a dead terrorist!
Assuming
if Kasab was released or escaped from prison, he might return to Pakistan and
give more information to the Lashkar-e-Taiba Islamist group, it will cause more chaos to
India. The terrorist group might have held foreign people hostage to demand his
release, more anarchy here! Good radiance that he is dead, to prevent all these
from happening. He did not die a martyr but died a coward and a scum that has
no right to life.
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People hold a placard and pictures of
Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, as they celebrate in Ahmedabad November 21, 2012.
REUTERS/Amit Dave |
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Relatives of victims of the July 26, 2008
bomb blasts in Ahmedabad burn a picture of Ajmal Amir Kasab during a
demonstration welcoming his death sentence.
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I
agree with Judge M L Tahaliyani that the courts must remember the rights of the
victims and not just criminals, meaning that if we care for the rights of the
victims, we must execute the guilty. For Kasab’s case, innocence issue does not
apply here. What applies here is that he is one of the worst of the worst
criminals, who does not deserve to breath, even behind bars. A life sentence is
not justice; prison is too good for him, even if it is Spartan condition. Many
people wished that he was hung in public for all to see.
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Artist Sudarsan
Pattnaik giving final touches to a sand sculpture of Ajmal Kasab, on a
beach in Orissa, on Wednesday.
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Abolitionists
did not have candlelight vigils outside the Yerwada Central Jail in Pune when Kasab
was executed by hanging at 7:30am on Wednesday 21 November 2012. They did not
carry any anti-death penalty slogans or wore T-shirts, ‘I AM AJMAL AMIR KASAB!’
(See Troy Davis). The only thing the Abolitionists did was to tell the Indian
government to abolish the death penalty. However, India voted against the UN
Resolution to abolish the death penalty. I hope that they can quickly send Afzal Guru to the gallows too.
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| An activist of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad holds an effigy of Mohammed Ajmal Kasab before it was burnt to celebrate the news that he was executed, in Bangalore on Wednesday. Kasab, a Pakistani citizen, was one of 10 gunmen who rampaged through the streets of India’s financial capital for three days in November 2008, killing 166 people. The placard refers to Afzal Guru, the man who has been sentenced for death penalty and currently in prison for the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament. (AP Photo byy Aijaz Rahi) |
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