I find the attitude approving of private justice deeply worrying.

Some years ago in Germany, a crowd did interfere with the fire brigade doing the job of extinguishing a fire in a big house with asylum seekers. They (the crowd and the arsonists) just wanted those aliens out of their community. They (the alines) were said to steal and to increase criminality in general. They just had to take the law into their own hands. Any worse, in your perception?

With rare exceptions (immediate danger and no police near), noone should get away with taking the law into their own hands. The murderer of van Gogh also felt justified killing him for the (Dutch) law allowed the prophet to be slighted and did not enough to hold up the dignity of the Muslim religion.

I hope the islanders are punished.

Wolfgang