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Jihadi barbarians demanded $100,000,000 ransom for Foley’s life

Aug 21, 2014 10:17 am By Robert Spencer

ISISAmericanPrisonerA manual of Islamic law has this:

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 [Islam] then strike [their] necks” (Qur’an sura 47, verse 4) (Abu’l-Hasan al-Mawardi, The Laws of Islamic Governance).

They didn’t get the ransom, so they beheaded him.

“Jihadi barbarians demanded $100M ransom for Foley’s life,” by Bruce Golding, New York Post, August 20, 2014:

Before bloodthirsty Islamic State militants beheaded James Wright ­Foley in a gruesome video posted online, the terror thugs demanded a $100 million ransom for the journalist’s safe return, a report said.

The United States refused to pay, according to The New York Times.

It was not clear when the terrorist group made its ransom demand for Foley, who was kidnapped in Syria in 2012, nor is it clear why the US refused, but government sources told the paper that paying such ransoms only helps terror groups.

Several European countries, however, have handed large sums of money to terrorist groups to bring captured citizens home safely.

It was also revealed that US commandos launched a daring raid in Syria to rescue Foley and other American hostages — but the special forces couldn’t find the captives and left empty-handed, officials revealed Wednesday.

President Obama personally approved the elaborate rescue mission earlier this summer. US soldiers gunned down several Islamic State militants and only suffered one minor injury when an aircraft was hit.

“The US government had what we believed was sufficient intelligence, and when the opportunity presented itself, the president authorized the Department of Defense to move aggressively to recover our citizens,” Lisa Monaco, Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser, said in a statement.

“Unfortunately, that mission was ultimately not successful because the hostages were not present.”

The operation was “substantial and complex,” involving multiple branches of the military, helicopters, fixed-wing airplanes and surveillance aircraft, ABC News reported.

The mission, revealed a day after the Islamic State released a gruesome video of Foley’s beheading, marked the first time that US combat forces entered Syria since its bloody civil war erupted three years ago….

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  1. John C. Barile says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 10:38 am

    Give them $100 million in high-tech destruction at our hands. Squared.

    • Jerry says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 12:36 pm

      Just donate the 100 mil to the IDF for an educational project:

      Re-educate Hamas!

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Aug 21, 2014 at 6:08 pm

        That’s an excellent idea.

  2. Jay Boo says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 10:48 am

    By asking for such a huge ransom they attempt to shift the responsibility of their crime onto others. They obviously intended to kill him to flaunt their power. Surely they must have known that even Obama would not fail to realize that giving them such a huge sum of money would only open the floodgates to more kidnapping. They didn’t get the ransom, so they beheaded him. Wrong, they beheaded him because they are cowardly Qur’an following Muslims behaving like spiteful piggy prophet Muhammad.

  3. Jay Boo says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 10:51 am

    Burn a Qur’an in protest and Obama will quickly apologize.

    Who in the Muslim community is apologizing for this?
    Only more denials of any responsibility.

    • Jerry says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 12:31 pm

      Sorry, can’t burn my Qur’an. It’s an app on my not so smart phone.

      Had it at least been a “soft copy” printed on sufficiently absorbent paper
      I could possibly put it to some better use.

      Now, what a privilege it would have been if all Qur’an came only in “soft copy” editions.

      • Jay Boo says

        Aug 22, 2014 at 12:29 am

        A burning Qur’an would make an excellent screen saver for computer screens.
        Then again with modern screens there is no longer much need for a screen saver.

  4. Marcos says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 11:57 am

    What makes me so angry is the British been too tolerance towards radical Islam for so long. Too tolerance, I don’t get it, I don’t understand why? Why they been allowed to creep in to the country? why they tolerated them for so long?

  5. Saycheese says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 1:05 pm

    “Several European countries, however, have handed large sums of money to terrorist groups to bring captured citizens home safely.”

    Yeah, Americans are always the tough ones. But in the meantime you swap a traitor for five terrorists.

    • SpiritOf1683 says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 2:38 pm

      No money should be handed over for hostages, and there should be a press and media campaign all over the non-Muslim world getting it through to the people that if you go to an area infested by savages like ISIS, Boko Haram etc, and you get captured by them, then no ransom money will be paid for your release, so the moral is simple: Don’t go there!

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 2:56 pm

    As stated yesterday the Islamic thugs of ISIS just might be so warped and deluded that they actually might think of all the murderous violence they do as well as other evil things as something that is “good.” To such a wicked ,warped and deluded way of thinking as this the Bible teaches “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.” Isaiah 5:20. Furthermore, such men as those of ISIS with their evil and mad mindset may be described in the Bible in Ecclesiastes 9:3. with reads “The hearts of men are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterwards they join the dead.” [N.I.V.]

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 3:02 pm

    The ISIS thugs who are terrible men of violence are also thoroughly ruthless, brutal , cruel and murderous so much so that the curse that is found in the Bible may apply to them. For the Bible in Psalm 140:11. reads “May disaster hunt down men of violence.” [N.I.V.]

  8. paddy says

    Aug 22, 2014 at 9:12 am

    This sums up who these boys are…savage, thieving, murdering muslim cunts who are funded by the oil-soaked muslim cunts.

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