A warped sense of causality often derails public reasoning. The spillover of a deeply flawed cause-and-effect dyad distorts what to assume and where to conclude in other realms too. That’s the key to a number of problems with the observations made by the Supreme Court while dismissing the petition of suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma to club together the nine FIRs filed against her since she made remarks against Prophet Muhammad on a Times Now show in May.
Even if the court’s dismissal of the petition could be legally argued, the oral remarks made by Justice Surya Kant set a dangerous premise, show tone-deaf misreading of the specifics and smack of misplaced tutelage. As an aside, the observations also rely on simplistic tropes for media-bashing.
