Where did Tahir Hussain get the idea that this was acceptable behavior? In light of his characterization of Hindus as “kafirs,” unbelievers, it is likely that he was influenced by the Qur’an’s repeated exhortations to “kill them wherever you find them” (2:191; 4:89; cf. 9:5).
“Tahir Hussain Provoked Mob In The Name Of Religion To Kill Hindus And ‘Kafirs’, Says Delhi Police Chargesheet In Ankit Sharma’s Murder Case,” by Swati Goel Sharma, Swarajya, June 19, 2020:
Tahir Hussain, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) municipal councillor, arrested for the murder of Intelligence Bureau (IB) staffer Ankit Sharma, had led the mob atop his building and provoked them in the name of religion to kill Hindus and ‘kafirs’, says the chargesheet filed by the Delhi Police, citing witness statements.
Sharma went missing on the evening of 25 February in the middle of the three-day communal riots that broke out in the capital city. His heavily mutilated body was fished out the next day from a clogged drain in Chand Bagh, which is some 50 metres from Hussain’s building….
The chargesheet says that on the evening of 25 February, Sharma was standing with “the Hindu crowd” a little away from Hussain’s building when about 20-25 rioters, armed with lathis and knives, dragged Sharma to the Chand Bagh Pulia. The mob killed him and threw his body into the drain at 5.39 pm the same day.
Hussain was named as a suspect by Sharma’s father Ravinder in his statement to the police on 26 February after the body was discovered. The statement, recorded in FIR number 65/2020 at Dayalpur Police Station, said that goons gathered by Tahir Hussain in his building had been attacking people in the area, and when Ravinder went around inquiring about his son, locals told him that a man is believed to have been thrown from a mosque in Chand Bagh into a drain in that area.
The chargesheet, submitted in the court earlier this month, says, “The witnesses have categorically stated in their statements that Tahir Hussain was present on the spot on 25.02.2020 and he was leading the mob present at Chand Bagh Pulia and was kept on moving from Chand Bagh Pulia to his house. Some witnesses have also stated that Tahir Hussain was also present at his house from where the mob was pelting stones, bricks and petrol bombs on the Hindus preventing them to move forward. The witnesses have stated that Tahir Hussain was provoking and instigating the mob against the Hindus/kafirs to kill them.”
It also says that Hussain “provoked and instigated the Muslims against Hindus saying that Hindu people had killed a number of Muslims and set fire to their shops at Sherpur Chowk. On his provocation/instigation, the Muslims turned violent and volatile on February 24 and 25 and started burning the shops and pelting stones and petrol bombs on Hindus (sic) people and also targeted their houses.”
Police have charged a total of 10 people — all Muslims — including Hussain with murder, rioting and creating enmity between religions, among other offences….