Delhi schools mailed bomb threats in the name of Islam, calls bombing punishment from Allah for not submitting to Islam

Case ID : 595494c | Location : Delhi, Delhi, India | Date of Incident : Fri, 13 December, 2024
Case ID : 595494c
location Delhi, Delhi, India
date 13 December, 2024
Delhi schools mailed bomb threats in the name of Islam, calls bombing punishment from Allah for not submitting to Islam
Hate speech against Hindus
Violent threats

Case Summary

Several schools in Delhi, including DPS RK Puram, Ryan International School, and Vasant Kunj, received bomb threats via email. The emails referred to children as “brave servants of Allah” and contained statements linking the threats to Islamic beliefs. The sender claimed divine approval, stating, “Allah watches your futile efforts to resist His punishment, for no mortal can escape Allah’s justice,” and warned that bombs would explode when students were absent. The email further invoked Prophet Muhammad, asserting that resistance against the threats would fail. It justified the use of violence as part of a religious mission. It ominously described bomb vests as “blessed by Prophet Muhammad” and declared the attackers’ intent to carry out their mission in Allah’s name. These threats, occurring for the third time in a week, sparked fear and concern among school communities. The Delhi Police assured that no explosives were found. Investigations traced the emails to sources outside India.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case has been added to the primary category 'hate speech', under the sub-category 'violent threats'. Violent threats, explicit, implicit or implied, is the most dangerous form of hate speech since it goes beyond discriminatory and prejudicial language to express the intent of causing harm to an individual or a group of people based on their religious identity and faith. There could be several different kinds of threats that are issued to Hindus based on religious animosity. An explicit threat would mean the direct threat of violence towards an individual Hindu, a group of Hindus or Hindus at large. Physical violence, death threats, threats of destruction of property belonging to Hindus and threats of genocide would mean explicit threats against Hindus for their religious identity. Implicit threats may not be a direct threat but implied through the use of symbols of actions – for example – in the Nupur Sharma case, other than explicit threats, there were also implicit threats when Islamists took to the streets to burn and beat her effigies. It implies that they want to do the same to Nupur Sharma – thereby is considered an implicit threat. Violent threats can be delivered in person, through letters, phone calls, graffiti, or increasingly through social media and other online platforms. It would be important to understand that a threat – explicit or implicit, online or offline – to an individual who happens to be a Hindu does not qualify as a religiously motivated threat. Such a threat, while vile and dangerous, could be owing to non-religious reasons and/or personal animosity. To qualify as a religiously motivated threat, it would need to exhibit an indication that the individual is being targeted for religious reasons and/or owing to his/her religious identity as a Hindu. In this case, the threat that given to the schools clearly justified the threat in the name of Islam. Pertinently, the threat said that the bombing of these schools (in threats) was justified because it was the will and punishment of Allah. Essentially, the perpetrator viewed the bombing of the schools as divine Islamic justice against the Hindu students and the schools in a Hindu collectivity which were not submitting to Islam. While the perpetrator remains unidentified in this case, the threat itself is driven by religious fanaticism and animosity towards those who don't submit to the mandate of Islam and therefore, it is being documented as a religiously motivated hate crime.

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Muslim Extremists

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