Times of IndiaKANPUR: "Dear terrorists, new firman issued. Kill 10, take a branded T-shirt and be best terrorist in the group. Jehad begins from July 18-20 â Osama bin Laden.ââ No, this isnât a message on the Al-Jazeera channel.
T of I definitely has a clue.
It is creative minds at work at ICICI-Prudential Insurance Company, exhorting local agents to go for a âsales killâ. The new strategy was aptly named âMission Jehadâ. In a meeting of the companyâs agents on Tuesday night, employees were asked to adopt the âbin Laden strategyâ, ie, one terrorist killing 10 people. Here, though, jehad meant sale of insurance policies. The best reward at stake â a glass tumbler â was named after the worldâs most wanted terrorist. "During the meeting, insurance company personnel apprised agents of bin Ladenâs strategy and how he targeted his victims.
They should have called it the MOAB strategy, with a Dubya coffee mug as the prize.
We were told to adopt the same to popularise our insurance policies," an agent present in the meeting said. The creative initiative proved costly as five company employees were marched off to jail on Wednesday. They were arrested immediately after the issue snowballed into a major controversy in Kanpur and saffron parties staged a protest in front of the insurance company office.
These were not Muslim protestors, so nobody lost his head.
On Wednesday, the additional chief metropolitan magistrate-1, Kanpur Nagar, rejected the bail application of the employees arrested on charges of sedition.
Yikes! Will Ramsey Clark jet over to defend them?Is Michael Moore working on a screenplay? Will it beThe Prudential Minutemen or Dude, I want my tumbler back?
| Don't laugh. That tumbler is now the 15,694th holiest place in Islam, just ahead of the donkey trough outside Mutual of Gaza HQ. |
