Kidnapping infidels and releasing them for ransom or enslaving them, as well as killing 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.
More on this story. “ISIS kidnap at least 90 people from Christian villages in Syria, human rights watchdog reveals,” by Julian Robinson, MailOnline, February 24, 2015 (thanks to all who sent this in):
Islamic State militants have kidnapped at least 90 people after sweeping through Christian villages in Syria, it has been revealed.
The abductions are said to have taken place after ISIS seized two Assyrian communities from Kurdish forces in the northeast province of Hassakeh.
Dawn raids on Monday are said to have spread ‘panic’ in the villages, inhabited by the ancient Christian minority along the banks of the Khabur River near the town of Tel Hmar.
Most of the captives are said to have came from the village of Tal Shamiram, located 50 miles miles southwest of the Hassakeh provincial capital of Qamishli, with others taken from Tal Hermuz.
The kidnappings were revealed by the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The latest offensive coincides with a push by Syrian Kurds in the northeast near the Iraqi border since Sunday that had compounded losses for the militant group in Syria.
Sources are reported to have told the human rights watchdog that jihadists swooped to abduct dozens of civilians from the village of Tal Shamiram….
Jay Boo says
There came to Mecca a self-proclaimed false prophet.
Being without honor, he had stolen the Torah and the Gospel from those he had murdered.
Unworthy of respect, he demanded submission.
He came to mock – the martyr Stephen, – the preparer John – and Jesus Christ.
This uninvited invader came to stone, to behead, and to crucify.
He taught immorality and inhumanity.
His followers are called blasphemy, Ignorance and injustice.
terry says
Jay, I really enjoyed reading that, wow!
M S case says
Yes these believers in islam are the same ones who believe Mohamed the astronomer. say there are 7 earths and 7 heavens and they are resting on top of a big fish and the mountains are holding the worlds in place when the fish wiggles and shooting stars are spears shot by God at the devil and his demons, and that the sun sets in a different murky pool each day.
God in your great heaven It’s time to remove this vermin from the face of your green one and only earth..
john spielman says
time must be short as Satan’s minions(muslims amongst others) are running rampant today. May the God of peace soon crush Satan (allah) under our feet
Champ says
I agree with you, John. And one day this *will* happen.
gravenimage says
And “the most beneficial action”, of course, is what is most beneficial for Islam. And right now, when Muslims are highly emboldened, that is likely the “traditional”—murdering all males over the age of puberty, and enslaving the women and childfren.
My God, how I hate Islam. I have no words that are strong enough.
somehistory says
The muslim says “islam will survive till doomsday”….Exactly! Doomsday is for islam! The wild beast will meet its doom and soon! Those who worship satan, his wild beast and its image are all for the same place and doomsday is swiftly coming.
Like calgon took the lady away when the stress was just too much, The True God will rid the earth of the wild beast and its image. The True God will do a much better and more thorough job of ridding the earth of islam and the horrific stresses it has caused.
katnis says
This is TERRIBLE. The persecution of Christians is rampant in the world. And the muslims are screaming about islamophobia? Who is running around kidnapping, enslaving, raping, and murdering them in large groups? Where is the global unity protecting these poor people?
Wellington says
No big deal. It’s only Christians. Now, if it were 90 or so Muslims taken captive by those of another faith (excuse the fantasy here), Obama would have called a news conference by now, academics aplenty at sundry Western universities would be crying bigotry and racism and the MSM would be, ad nauseam, talking about how rampant Islamophobia is.
Oh yeah, phony world. Stupid world.
Bezelel says
The double standard is a familiar pattern. It works on Israel so they’ll use it on the rest of us.
jay says
They must have been very Islamphobic.
Undaunted says
In police work, there is this thing called the second crime scene. The first crime scene is the spot from which you were snatched. The second crime scene is where they find your lifeless body. Advice I’ve given hundreds of times to people throughout my career and at my blog goes like this:
When you’re being attacked and it appears that your attacker wants to take you alive and move you to another location, you need to fight your attacker then and there, at crime scene one. There you will be closer to people who may hear you and be able to help. There you will be closer to medical aid. Fight your attacker(s) right there. If they’re going to kill you, make them do it there. If they take you alive from the first spot, it’s almost guaranteed that they will kill you. If you are a woman, it’s almost guaranteed they will rape and sodomize you. If it’s jihadi’s, they will take turns on you.
If you can’t fight right away, then the best time to try to escape is as soon as possible after you’ve been taken. During the first few moments of this kind of scenario, the bad-guys are less organized than they will be later so you have a better chance of escaping since some level of surprise will be on your side.
Frankly, when I see these long lines of prisoners about to be killed, I ask myself, “How can you just let yourself be led to the slaughter? FIGHT THEM EVEN IF THEY KILL YOU WHILE YOU’RE DOING IT.
Fight them, people.
MKG says
That is good counsel.
Champ says
Such evil!! …islam brings nothing but HELL on earth!
Undaunted says
It’s up to you. Wanna see? Check out how the “best” police force in the country is being trained to react when stress rises…
http://www.policeone.com/chiefs-sheriffs/articles/8327584-NY-cops-told-to-close-eyes-during-volatile-situations/?utm_source=8314747&utm_medium=email&utm_content=TopNewsRelated2Title&utm_campaign=P1Member&nlid=
Of course, most NYPD officers won’t comply with this bullshit. But the brass who ordered the training; they’re the ones in charge, and their ilk, all over this nation.
gravenimage says
My God, what insanity, Undaunted. It’s not like they are giving this advice to people who are facing an escalating argument with their spouse, or losing patience with the kids.
Police taking this advice in a stressful situation are likely to get themselves killed—themselves, or members of the public they are charged with protecting.
It sounds like the cops rightly regard this as horseshit—but that this is being doled out as official advice, and to a force I tend to think of as fairly un-PC—is deeply disturbing and shows to what extent even the most basic common sense is increasingly lacking.
TH says
The left doesn’t mind how many Christians are beheaded or enslaved or killed in NIgeria. It did get a bit upset when 12 of its own from Charlie Hebdo got massacred. They fail to realize that when jihad finally prevails thanks to their help, their head will also be chopped off. Incredibly stupid and totally brainless.
Tommo says
Not widely reported but the three ‘high achieving’ UK student whores who left their well off families without a word have now crossed into Syria and probably will already be giving ‘comfort’ to as many ISIS thugs that they can manage between meal breaks.
The families are playing the victims of girls who were influenced by online grooming websites but also blame Islamophobia as a likely cause of their desire to be husbands of Islamic murders. The question remains who paid for the airline tickets to Turkey and why, when the parents knew our police were tracking them down, the bitches were rushed into Syria.
Charli Main says
These Muslima maggots will be back in Britain in a few years time with a herd of Jihadi piglets in toe, for Britain´s non Muslims to house, feed, clothe and educated in a local Mosque and be taught, by peace loving Imams, to kill the Kaffirs occupying their Muslim land.
DaveS says
Great website, insightful commenters. But I just can’t help but feel some inconsistent vibe from some commenters here. I mean, if one hates the Islam inspired violence…the killings, the suffering, then how does one accept God’s own eternal violence against people?
Undaunted says
Geeez, what a dumb-ass question. You just failed the erudition test, Dave.
Champ says
**UPDATE**
The number of Christians abducted has now risen to at least 150 …
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/24/us-mideast-crisis-christians-idUSKBN0LS0MH20150224
Excerpt:
(Reuters) – Islamic State militants have abducted at least 150 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria they had raided, Christian Syrian activists said on Tuesday.
A Syrian Christian group representing several NGO’s inside and outside the country said it had verified at least 150 people missing, including women and elderly, who had been kidnapped by the militants.
“We have verified at least 150 people who have been adducted from sources on the ground,” Bassam Ishak, President of the Syriac National Council of Syria, whose family itself is from Hasaka, told Reuters from Amman.
Kyle_L says
I am a 19-year-old university student in Canada. I have been “studying” Islam on the web for a while, and I am also an avid reader of this site. Today in my philosophy class, we were openly discussing ISIS and other terrorist groups/attackers, and pondering at the reason for the recent acts of violence. Not wanting to sound “racist” or “islamophobic” in a multicultural and multifaith classroom, I chose to stay quiet as I listened to the comments made by students.
“Maybe terrorists are blowing up cities in Western countries to show how it feels like to
“Most of these people are poor, and just want to
“Maybe the three girls who left the UK wanted to go to help the poor people in Syria.”
“Maybe these people who migrate to Syria think they’ll lead a better life.”
“Maybe they want to tell the US should get out of their lands.”
No one considered that perhaps Islam was to blame. Worse, only maybe two students (one being a Muslim) knew what “Shariah” was (she also claimed that Shariah promotes women’s rights), and only a handful knew what “jihad” is. It was also unsettling to me that if I questioned these statements, I’d be ridiculed and labeled a “racist.” More unsettling is that no one bothered to question the motive for senselessly beheading innocent religious minorities like these Christians. And perhaps most unsettling is that our future voters and runners of our country do not bother to do some research and get to the bottom of these problems.