Through ransoms paid for kidnapped Westerners. Kidnapping infidels and releasing them for ransom is fully sanctioned in Islamic law: “As for the captives, the amir [ruler] has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first to put them to death by cutting their necks; the second, to enslave them and … Continue reading Mali: “The source of our financing is the Western countries. They are paying for jihad.”