Why not? Obama showed Islamic jihadists with the Bergdahl deal that kidnapping worked. We will see a great deal more of it. This is entirely in accord with Islamic law. Kidnapping infidels and releasing them for ransom or killing them, as well as enslaving them 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.”5 Assyrians, Including Two Nuns, Missing in Mosul,” AINA, June 30, 2014:
Mosul, Iraq (AINA) — The Assyrian television channel Ishtar TV is reporting that 5 Assyrians have gone missing in Mosul. Two Chaldean nuns from the Daughters of Mary Order, Sister Miskintah and Sister Utoor Joseph, as well as Hala Salim, Sarah Khoshaba and Aram Sabah have not been heard from for nearly two days.Sisters Miskintah and Utoor managed an orphanage for girls in Mosul, in the Khazraj neighborhood near Miskintah Church. After Mosul fell to ISIS, the two nuns brought the orphaned girls to the city of Dohuk for safety. The Nuns returned late Saturday to Mosul, accompanied by Hala, Sarah and Aram, to inspect the monastery but there has been no contact with them nor any trace of their whereabouts since then.
It is believed they have been kidnapped by Muslims.
Nearly all of the Christians of Mosul have fled the city since it fell to ISIS on June 10. ISIS members bombed an Armenian church which was under construction in the Left Bank neighborhood, near al-Salaam hospital and looted The Church of the Holy Spirit (AINA 2014-06-12). Two days after taking over Mosul, imposed Islamic law (Sharia) (AINA 2014-06-14) and began collecting the poll tax (jizya) from Christians (AINA 2014-06-21). On June 21 ISIS members raped a mother and daughter and killed four women for not wearing the veil (AINA 2014-06-23).
From left: Hala Salim, Sarah Khoshaba and Aram Sabah.
Interfaith religious dialogue won’t save these dearest ones. This Islam that produces no sanctity or sanity is abominably evil and detestable.
Josephsays
“…kidnapped by Muslims.”? Robert, there must be some mistake. Your headline cannot be correct. Don’t you know that kidnapping is a form of violence? And Pope Francis has declared officially that:
“Authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence” [Evangelii Gaudium #253].
So the perpetrators could not have been Muslims.
Please. Let’s not rush to making “…hateful generalizations…” [Ibid].
And, moreover, if you keep talking about such atrocities, you will disrupt Bishop McManus’s dialogue with Muslims here in the west. Shhhh…we mustn’t speak of such things.
THsays
Unfortunately Pope Francis is totally wrong in what he wrote in Evangelium Gaudium. It is hard to undrestand his iignorance, as the Vatican has an abundant source of information about what is going on in those countries. It is the duty of the Nuncios, Papal ambassadors, to regularly report about all important matters regarding the Church. Also, there is a Jesuit wo is an expert on Islam, born and reared in Egypt, and I udnerstand that he now teaches in Rome. If the Pope wanted to find out about thee true nature of Islam, he could easily consult with his fellow Jesuit, Kalil.
Today he mentioned the fact that there are more victims of persecution of Christians than in the early days of the Church. I assume he is not so ignorant not to know who are doing the persecuting.
Josephsays
What we know for a fact, given the unequivocal language of Evangelii Gaudium #253, is that Pope Francis is utterly, profoundly ignorant of the true nature of Islam. We can begin with that indisputable fact.
But ignorance, as St. Thomas reminds us, can be of two kinds as to its source: vincible and invincible. Vincible ignorance, as its name suggests, is ignorance which, in the normal run of things, CAN be ‘overcome’ and generally implies moral guilt (culpability) if it is not overcome and evil proceeds from it. The person in question IS ABLE to find out the truth of a matter if only they attempt to do so (and usually without even having to resort to extraordinary means). And their failure to do so is a moral fault if evil is engendered as a result of their ignorance.
Invincible ignorance, on the other hand, is the opposite. The person involved is, for any number of circumstantial reasons, completely INCAPABLE of finding out the truth about a particular matter [and therefore also NOT culpable morally].
So, we have to ask ourselves: Is Pope Francis’ demonstrated ignorance of the true nature of Islam vincible or invincible?
Given the abundance of information available today about the true nature of Islam [this very website as a prime example, not to mention 50 other very well-researched websites, hundreds of books, thousands of articles, and the direct testimony of his nuncios, bishops, and cardinals] I think the answer is quite clear. His ignorance is vincible: he could easily have found out the truth about Islam if only he had attempted to do so.
And the simple fact is that he did not inform himself as he ought to have informed himself. We know this from the evidence of his official pronouncement in Evangelii Gaudium #253. And his ignorance is vincible.
Next, is he culpable in this context? Is he at fault morally? Well, answer this question: Did evil result from his ignorance? Answer: Definitely yes. What evil? The evil of spreading misinformation/falsehoods to the world about the true nature of Islam. Make no mistake, Islam is a “clear and present danger” to the lives of millions of innocent people around the world. And that threat is growing on a daily basis. When the pope teaches officially that Islam is inherently peaceful (“opposed to every form of violence”) he aids and abets the enemy of the Church and the enemy of the free people of the world. And he misuses his considerable authority as a world leader to misdirect the efforts of people of good will all over the world. That is truly disgraceful, in my opinion. He COULD HAVE informed himself and spoken the TRUTH about Islam. Instead, he chose to allow himself to remain IGNORANT of Islam AND to spread that ignorance through his authority as the Roman Pontiff. That is a public scandal and disgrace, in my opinion.
We can conclude, then, about Pope Francis (and I say this as a Catholic myself, not some raving anti-Catholic):
1. He is profoundly ignorant of the true nature of Islam. Fact.
2. His ignorance about Islam is vincible. Fact. And…
3. His vincible ignorance is, as well, culpable. Fact.
And he is the supposed “Head” of the Church. Wow. Heaven help us.
wessays
“I ask and I humbly entreat those countries to grant Christians freedom to worship and to practice their faith, in light of the freedom which followers of Islam enjoy in Western countries! Faced with disconcerting episodes of violent fundamentalism, our respect for true followers of Islam should lead us to avoid hateful generalisations, for authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.”
-Evangelii Gaudium #253
The problem is “authentic Islam” with the proper reading of the Koran doesn’t appear to have an answer suitable to Islamic Fundamentalism.
John C. Barilesays
This appeal to Muslim good will rests on a foundation of sand.
The score is — Islamic Fundamentalism: 1; The Church of Niceness: 0.
rabrookssays
That’s what I mean. Where the puck is the pope? Does he still have the same view of mudslimes? There’s no way that anyone alive, cannot see what’s goin on in a big chunk of the world! I thought the pallies wlod off him on his visit. Now I see why they didn’t!
rabrookssays
That’s what I mean. Where the puck is the pope? Does he still have the same view of mudslimes? There’s no way that anyone alive, cannot see what’s goin on in a big chunk of the world! I thought the pallies would off him on his visit. Now I see why they didn’t!
John C. Barile says
Interfaith religious dialogue won’t save these dearest ones. This Islam that produces no sanctity or sanity is abominably evil and detestable.
Joseph says
“…kidnapped by Muslims.”? Robert, there must be some mistake. Your headline cannot be correct. Don’t you know that kidnapping is a form of violence? And Pope Francis has declared officially that:
“Authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence” [Evangelii Gaudium #253].
So the perpetrators could not have been Muslims.
Please. Let’s not rush to making “…hateful generalizations…” [Ibid].
And, moreover, if you keep talking about such atrocities, you will disrupt Bishop McManus’s dialogue with Muslims here in the west. Shhhh…we mustn’t speak of such things.
TH says
Unfortunately Pope Francis is totally wrong in what he wrote in Evangelium Gaudium. It is hard to undrestand his iignorance, as the Vatican has an abundant source of information about what is going on in those countries. It is the duty of the Nuncios, Papal ambassadors, to regularly report about all important matters regarding the Church. Also, there is a Jesuit wo is an expert on Islam, born and reared in Egypt, and I udnerstand that he now teaches in Rome. If the Pope wanted to find out about thee true nature of Islam, he could easily consult with his fellow Jesuit, Kalil.
Today he mentioned the fact that there are more victims of persecution of Christians than in the early days of the Church. I assume he is not so ignorant not to know who are doing the persecuting.
Joseph says
What we know for a fact, given the unequivocal language of Evangelii Gaudium #253, is that Pope Francis is utterly, profoundly ignorant of the true nature of Islam. We can begin with that indisputable fact.
But ignorance, as St. Thomas reminds us, can be of two kinds as to its source: vincible and invincible. Vincible ignorance, as its name suggests, is ignorance which, in the normal run of things, CAN be ‘overcome’ and generally implies moral guilt (culpability) if it is not overcome and evil proceeds from it. The person in question IS ABLE to find out the truth of a matter if only they attempt to do so (and usually without even having to resort to extraordinary means). And their failure to do so is a moral fault if evil is engendered as a result of their ignorance.
Invincible ignorance, on the other hand, is the opposite. The person involved is, for any number of circumstantial reasons, completely INCAPABLE of finding out the truth about a particular matter [and therefore also NOT culpable morally].
So, we have to ask ourselves: Is Pope Francis’ demonstrated ignorance of the true nature of Islam vincible or invincible?
Given the abundance of information available today about the true nature of Islam [this very website as a prime example, not to mention 50 other very well-researched websites, hundreds of books, thousands of articles, and the direct testimony of his nuncios, bishops, and cardinals] I think the answer is quite clear. His ignorance is vincible: he could easily have found out the truth about Islam if only he had attempted to do so.
And the simple fact is that he did not inform himself as he ought to have informed himself. We know this from the evidence of his official pronouncement in Evangelii Gaudium #253. And his ignorance is vincible.
Next, is he culpable in this context? Is he at fault morally? Well, answer this question: Did evil result from his ignorance? Answer: Definitely yes. What evil? The evil of spreading misinformation/falsehoods to the world about the true nature of Islam. Make no mistake, Islam is a “clear and present danger” to the lives of millions of innocent people around the world. And that threat is growing on a daily basis. When the pope teaches officially that Islam is inherently peaceful (“opposed to every form of violence”) he aids and abets the enemy of the Church and the enemy of the free people of the world. And he misuses his considerable authority as a world leader to misdirect the efforts of people of good will all over the world. That is truly disgraceful, in my opinion. He COULD HAVE informed himself and spoken the TRUTH about Islam. Instead, he chose to allow himself to remain IGNORANT of Islam AND to spread that ignorance through his authority as the Roman Pontiff. That is a public scandal and disgrace, in my opinion.
We can conclude, then, about Pope Francis (and I say this as a Catholic myself, not some raving anti-Catholic):
1. He is profoundly ignorant of the true nature of Islam. Fact.
2. His ignorance about Islam is vincible. Fact. And…
3. His vincible ignorance is, as well, culpable. Fact.
And he is the supposed “Head” of the Church. Wow. Heaven help us.
wes says
“I ask and I humbly entreat those countries to grant Christians freedom to worship and to practice their faith, in light of the freedom which followers of Islam enjoy in Western countries! Faced with disconcerting episodes of violent fundamentalism, our respect for true followers of Islam should lead us to avoid hateful generalisations, for authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.”
-Evangelii Gaudium #253
The problem is “authentic Islam” with the proper reading of the Koran doesn’t appear to have an answer suitable to Islamic Fundamentalism.
John C. Barile says
This appeal to Muslim good will rests on a foundation of sand.
The score is — Islamic Fundamentalism: 1; The Church of Niceness: 0.
rabrooks says
That’s what I mean. Where the puck is the pope? Does he still have the same view of mudslimes? There’s no way that anyone alive, cannot see what’s goin on in a big chunk of the world! I thought the pallies wlod off him on his visit. Now I see why they didn’t!
rabrooks says
That’s what I mean. Where the puck is the pope? Does he still have the same view of mudslimes? There’s no way that anyone alive, cannot see what’s goin on in a big chunk of the world! I thought the pallies would off him on his visit. Now I see why they didn’t!