Social Question
Handling death threats - Who will pay for the extra protection Terry Jones (who burned a Quran) might need?
The taxpayer?
Terry Jones?
His church?
How likely is it that Terry Jones gets killed by Islamist terrorists?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/pastor-terry-jones-receives-deaths-koran-burning/story?id=13289242
Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who supervised the burning of the Koran last month, said he’s not backing down after receiving death threats.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/04/07/fbi-warns-koran-burning-pastor-terry-jones-of-death-threats/
Top administration officials have sharply criticized Pastor Terry Jones for burning a Koran on March 20, but officials at the Justice Department are now faced with the politically sensitive task of defending his civil-rights against a spurt of death threats, including an announcement by Hezbollah that it would pay a $2.4 million bounty for his death. “The threats mainly come from e-mail, phone calls and we have gotten a occasional letter,” Jones said. “There is absolutely no sign the Justice Department officials are doing anything in response. They have not arrested anyone.” However, police forces do pass along warnings and provide him protective details when he visit American cities, and will provide protection when he visits Dearborn, Mich. He plans to visit that city on April 22, to criticize aggressive passages in the Koran. Dearborn has a large population of immigrant Muslims, and his arrival there will likely trigger strong protests. The Department of Justice did not answer questions about the death threats.
Jon Kyl asked if the department was doing enough to protect Muslim critics of Islamic doctrine who are threatened by fellow Muslims. “If we have credible allegations of a potential violation of civil rights law, we will investigate. We’ll follow the facts and make an appropriate judgment,” said Perez.
Here are two other examples:
The Danish cartoonist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Westergaard#2010_attack
was almost killed and he just drew relatively harmless (in my opinion) pictures. Westergaard was unharmed due to security precautions in his house. He fled to a panic room when he saw the intruder standing in the hallway wielding an axe.
Maybe Terry Jones will install a panic room too. Another example is this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie#Failed_assassination_attempt_and_Hezbollah's_comments
Police protection is an expensive business especially when it needs to be carried out over many years.
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