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Syria: Islamic jihadists kidnap 94 Alawite women and children, demand release of 2,000 jihadist prisoners in exchange

Mar 15, 2014 11:58 am By Robert Spencer

LatakiaSyriaThis is the kind of math that the “Palestinians” have taught the world in their prisoner exchanges with Israel. In any case, kidnapping infidels and releasing them for ransom or killing them, as well as exchanging them for Muslim prisoners if that option is deemed most advantageous for the Muslims, 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 apply the laws of slavery regarding their sale and manumission; the third, to ransom them in exchange for goods or prisoners; and fourth, to show favor to them and pardon them. Allah, may he be exalted, says, ‘When you encounter those [infidels] who deny [the Truth=Islam] then strike [their] necks’ (Qur’an sura 47, verse 4)” — Abu’l-Hasan al-Mawardi, al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah (The Laws of Islamic Governance), trans. by Dr. Asadullah Yate, (London), Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd., 1996, p. 192.

“Islamist rebels in Syria claim kidnapping of 94 civilians,” from Reuters, March 14

Sunni Islamist rebels in Syria have claimed responsibility for kidnapping at least 94 women and children belonging to President Bashar al-Assad’s minority Alawite sect, according to a video published on Thursday.

The civilians were abducted in August from villages in rural Latakia, the president’s coastal stronghold. The rebels said they were holding the hostages to secure the release of opposition supporters from government detention.

Thousands of people are thought to be imprisoned by both sides in the increasingly sectarian civil war, which enters its fourth year this month.

The video, obtained by Qatari-owned television station Al Jazeera, said the rebels were ready to swap the civilians for 2,000 prisoners who have been detained for more than a year.

It stipulated that most of the freed prisoners be from coastal areas of the country and that half of them be women and children, Al Jazeera said….

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  1. veggiedog says

    Mar 15, 2014 at 12:15 pm

    As long as this works for them they will continue to do it. Savages.

    • josep knight says

      Mar 16, 2014 at 10:32 am

      Jihadist should not be put in prison , they should be beheaded upon capturing. Nothing to swap or feed.

  2. revg says

    Mar 15, 2014 at 12:24 pm

    You would think that if the infidels are worthless scum and the jihadi’s are worthy people, those numbers would need to be reversed to be a fair exchange.
    Any worthy muslim would be expected to think so anyways.

    • veggiedog says

      Mar 15, 2014 at 1:02 pm

      Worthy Muslim sounds like an oxymoron. Sorry just could not resist, but your statement would mean a sense of reason which we just to not see in the Islamic population, at least in the terrorist population (I am being kind).

  3. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Mar 15, 2014 at 12:31 pm

    I’d like to see a list of deals Infidels have cut with Moslems that worked out. That list would be as brief as a list of feminists who’ve come out against the misogyny inherent is Islam. As in a blank sheet of paper.

    • Kalliope says

      Mar 15, 2014 at 2:37 pm

      I’ve also noticed the dearth of feminist outrage against ʾIslām.
      Perhaps their ethics forbids it.

  4. Berry Soetero says

    Mar 15, 2014 at 12:35 pm

    When the times comes, the calculus of the muz will come back to bite it in the rump.

  5. Transmaster says

    Mar 15, 2014 at 12:50 pm

    I am being to think a friend of mine has the best idea nuke the whole place starting with Iran. Pay off some Sunni cleric to issue a Fatwa that all who die nuking Iran will die Shaheed, and sit back and watch the fireworks.

  6. tpellow says

    Mar 15, 2014 at 1:32 pm

    “Syria crisis: Kurds fight to keep out encroaching jihadists”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-26512863

  7. Champ says

    Mar 15, 2014 at 1:48 pm

    Allah, may he be exalted, says, ‘When you encounter those [infidels] who deny [the Truth=Islam] then strike [their] necks’ (Qur’an sura 47, verse 4)” — Abu’l-Hasan al-Mawardi, al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah (The Laws of Islamic Governance), trans. by Dr. Asadullah Yate, (London), Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd., 1996, p. 192. — headline

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Hmm, allah sounds like a “trickster” and a “deceiver” …that’s because he is!

    And allah is NOT the God of the Bible:

    http://www.kingmessiahproject.com/is_allah_not_God.html

    • Kalliope says

      Mar 15, 2014 at 3:25 pm

      Nope. He’s not YHWH
      YHWH/Yahweh: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. God.
      Allāh: Just a deranged desert-god wannabe.

      • Sovereign Man says

        Mar 15, 2014 at 9:12 pm

        Even simpler: there is no Allah.

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Mar 16, 2014 at 8:11 am

        Yahweh, the personal name of the Judeo-Christian God. Look at what the Judeo-Christians have accomplished, what they wrought: justice, prosperity and most of all freedom. But there must be some flaw in the Judeo-Christian belief system that invokes self-destruction. We are committing suicide-by-Moslem and by-socialism. Ain’t no freedom in either of those ways.

        • dumbledoresarmy says

          Mar 17, 2014 at 12:37 am

          “But there must be some flaw in the Judeo-Christian belief system that invokes self-destruction.”

          Ah yes. If the House of Israel had never existed, and Jesus had never been born, we would all be so much better off, wouldn’t we? We’d be fine upstanding virile, warlike pagan Greek, Roman, Slavic, Frankish, Celtic (etc) warriors – with none of that corrupting and corroding ethos of charity and humility, that miserable, weak, resentful slaves’ religion of the Jews and the Christians to weaken our moral and intellectual fibres…?

          Hey, we’d still be enjoying the Gladiatorial Games in the colosseum , practising slavery wholesale, crucifying rebellious slave (Romans), and taking heads (Celts) and performing human sacrifice (Celts, Scandinavians).

          Why must *everything* bad that happens in the post-Christian West be blamed on Christian theology??

          What if the current state of disarray is the result, not of *obedience* to Christian teaching, but of the wholesale **rejection** of same by large numbers of people over the past two hundred years, at least?

  8. Salah says

    Mar 15, 2014 at 2:14 pm

    Why take jihadist prisoners in the first place? Jihadists are terrorists, and terrorists must be killed on the spot.
    No more prisoners means no more prisoner exchange. Problem solved!

  9. ploome says

    Mar 15, 2014 at 2:17 pm

    cool

  10. pongidae rex says

    Mar 15, 2014 at 7:38 pm

    The Jihadists math gives their own self worth too much credit. They should hold a puddle of spit hostage for their entire movement.

  11. Jay Boo says

    Mar 15, 2014 at 7:42 pm

    WWMD
    What Would Muhammad Do
    He would combine two verses into one
    Then he would pick and choose

  12. Jay Boo says

    Mar 15, 2014 at 8:33 pm

    Beastly Franken-Religion

  13. Veracious_one says

    Mar 15, 2014 at 8:51 pm

    Where were the village security forces???

  14. jewdog says

    Mar 15, 2014 at 11:02 pm

    Yes, the Israelis initiated this stupid practise of appeasement via lopsided prisoner release, no doubt encouraged by that dolt Kerry and his Neville Chamberlain-like boss.

    • Toni says

      Mar 16, 2014 at 4:02 am

      Israelis did this lopsided terrorist release for hostages prior to Obama, as well, strongly ‘encouraged’ by about every American President, from both parties.

      I am not feeling sorry for anybody in Syria — they have actively supported and aided terrorism and war against Israel for over half a century and now they are paying for it.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Mar 16, 2014 at 8:17 am

      I winced a few years ago when the Jews running Israel (the newspapers, politicians, TV stations, bureaucrats and professors) with a straight face seriously contemplated ceding the Golan Heights to the Moslems in exchange for peace. Does no one learn, has no one noticed the clear and brutal lessons of the Sinai, the West Bank and most recently the Strip?

      Lucky for Israel that Prez Barack Hussein Obama has their back. In a manner of speaking. They should give BiBi a big annual bonus; the guy has the toughest job in the world.

    • Defcon 4 says

      Mar 17, 2014 at 1:43 am

      The funny thing about the lopsided prisoner release is that it makes a Jew’s life really worth a thousand muslimes!

      • veggiedog says

        Mar 17, 2014 at 8:43 am

        Maybe the Muslim knows they themselves are worthless. You make a good point that i never thought of.

  15. fair_dinkum says

    Mar 16, 2014 at 3:47 am

    so.. one moslem sect kidnaps a group of other moslems to bargain with ..

    i feel something for women and children.. but then again, they are all moslems

    this is the best part of islam, where the hatred gets back to basics. sunnis would see the alawits as hellish blasphemers.. so when the talks fail, watch how easily these prisoners are murdered.

    their hate knows no bounds

    • No1 says

      Mar 16, 2014 at 5:53 am

      As far as I know, the beliefs of Alawites are so obscure that they might actually not be Muslims, but pre-Islamic Christians who adapted their beliefs to be favourable to the Muslim invaders. I’ll email Robert about it; it’d be interesting to have a piece on the Alawites.

      • fair_dinkum says

        Mar 16, 2014 at 6:44 am

        Doctrinal Differences: Alawites practice a unique but little known form of Islam that dates back to the 9th and 10th century. Its secretive nature is an outcome of centuries of isolation from the mainstream society and periodical persecution by the Sunni majority.

        Sunnis believe that succession to prophet Mohammed (d. 632) rightly followed through the line of his most able and pious companions. Alawites follow the Shiite interpretation, claiming that succession should have been based on bloodlines. According to Shiite Islam, Mohammed’s only true heir, imam, was his son-in-law Ali bin Abu Talib.

        But Alawites take a step further in the veneration of Imam Ali, allegedly investing him with divine attributes. Other specific elements such as the belief in divine incarnation, permissibility of alcohol, celebration of Christmas and Zoroastrian new year makes Alawite Islam highly suspect in the eyes of many orthodox Sunnis and Shiites.

        http://middleeast.about.com/od/syria/tp/The-Difference-Between-Alawites-And-Sunnis-In-Syria.htm

    • David, Thailand says

      Mar 16, 2014 at 7:01 am

      I suspect Obama will court one of their friendly terrorist leaders into making a great show of releasing these hostages, after which they will be shipped to the US for a life of ease on the taxpayer dime.

      It will cost the US a few millions with loads of concessions and weapons enough to murder thousands more innocents, but that’s irrelevant to Obama compared to his brownie points.

  16. David says

    Mar 16, 2014 at 5:58 am

    Off topic, but the chance of a Muslim hijacking 9/11 style of MH370 seems to be growing.

    London/Kuala Lumpur/Beijing — Evidence of a plot by Malaysian Islamists to hijack a passenger jet in a terrorist attack copying 9/11 was being investigated Saturday night in connection with the disappearance of Flight MH370.

    An al-Qaida informant told a court last week that four to five Malaysian men had been planning to take control of a plane, using a bomb hidden in a shoe to blow open the cockpit door.

    http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCkQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.edmontonjournal.com%2Fnews%2Fstyle%2Bplot%2Binvolving%2Bmissing%2F9622815%2Fstory.html&ei=iXQlU_W4F4-ElAWI8oHABQ&usg=AFQjCNGd9lH-pu5NixIdwme7zUxvl-YPag

  17. Vivienne Leijonhufvud (goldie) says

    Mar 16, 2014 at 12:56 pm

    Abducting women and children will guarantee their 2000 prisoners will be released. Allowing women and children to have their throats cut is horrific, I don’t believe any leader will condone this. Rather release terrorists and hope like hell they get killed in the field.

  18. Defcon 4 says

    Mar 16, 2014 at 1:58 pm

    Alawites are muslimes, just ask Wafa Sultan, whose death fatwah was pronounced by an Alawite cleric, or the Jews who used to reside in Syria and
    experienced unending, state sponsored, islamic persecution at the hands of the alawites (under both the elder and younger Assads).

    • fair_dinkum says

      Mar 16, 2014 at 8:13 pm

      and if they are not 100% muslim (are we going to talk degrees?) they act like they are both in power and in retribution towards suuni ‘freedom fighters’ .

      i far from see them as the ‘good guys’ …

    • voegelinian says

      Mar 16, 2014 at 11:26 pm

      Any group or sect or individual who is even “partially” Islamic should be considered equally as deadly as any other Muslim.

  19. gravenimage says

    Mar 19, 2014 at 2:00 am

    Syria: Islamic jihadists kidnap 94 Alawite women and children, demand release of 2,000 jihadist prisoners in exchange
    ………………………………..

    Damn barbarians.

    Orthodox Muslims can do this because they consider Alawites to be heretics or infidels, and hence fair game.

    Alawites have been marginally less of a threat to Christians in Syria than have Sunnis and Shi’ites for strategic reasons, so Christians have been oppressed and marginalized and often threatened, but rarely butchered outright.

    Given their dire lack of options, this is why most Syrian Christians have continued to support the Assad regime.

    And the Assad regime, of course, has also waged violent Jihad against Israel, mostly through Hizb’allah.

    Even here, though, the Jihadist insurgents have accused Assad of being “soft on Israel”—i.e., not quite genocidal enough.

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