They say that they are simply executing the judgment of Allah. They refer to this Qur’an verse: “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” — Qur’an 9:29
Will a Muslim spokesman in the West who condemns the Islamic State kindly explain how they’re misusing the Qur’an and misunderstanding Islam here? I didn’t think so.
“Islamic State Warns Those Who Refuse Islam Will Die like Ethiopians in Libya Video,” Morning Star News, April 24, 2015:
ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – In a video showing the cruel execution of 28 Ethiopian Christians, the militant Sunni terrorist group Islamic State (IS) says persecution of Christians is fundamental to Islam.
In the video released late Sunday night (April 19), IS (formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) warns that if Christians in the Middle East and elsewhere refuse Islam, they also will be slain. An IS spokesman gives Christians three options – convert to Islam, submit to the rule of Islam and pay the Jizya (tribute) or be killed.
“We say to Christians everywhere, the Islamic State will expand, with Allah’s permission,” a spokesman identified as Sheik Abu Malik Anas An-Nashwan says. “And it will reach you even if you are in fortified strongholds. So whoever enters Islam will have security, and whoever accepts the Dhimmah contract will have security. But whoever refuses will see nothing from us but the edge of a spear. The men will be killed and the children will be enslaved, and their wealth will be taken as booty. This is the judgment of Allah and His Messenger.”
The statement comes after the execution of 28 men identified by IS as, “The worshipers of the cross belonging to the hostile Ethiopian Church.” IS shows the 28 Christians divided into two groups of men being marched to their place of execution with their arms bound behind their backs. One group is held at a coastal area identified as “Wilayat Barqa” (Barqa State) in Libya, and the other is located inland in the desert scrub brush of “Wilayat Fazzan” (Fazzan State), also in Libya.
The men in both groups are lined up and then forced to kneel in the sand. After a man who appears in at least one other IS video gives a statement, the men in the desert are shot in the back of their heads. The video switches seaside, where the men there are pushed down into the sand and their throats are slit. Then all the men are beheaded.
The segment ends with close-ups of the heads of several victims being stacked onto their bodies as blood flows into the sea. Then the screen goes blank, and An-Nashwan appears.
On Tuesday (April 21) the Ethiopian Ministry of Information confirmed the men were Ethiopian migrant workers who were living in Libya. Their identities, if privately known, have not been released. The government ordered a three-day official mourning period, set to conclude today.
The video comes more than two months after IS released a video of the execution of 21 Christians, all but one of them Egyptian, on Feb. 15. The Ethiopians and the Egyptians who were executed on the beach appear to be executed in the same general area.
The latest recording issues what could be termed a treatise on persecuting Christians. Using numerous citations from the two primary sources of Islamic authority, the Koran and the Sunnah (the sayings and actions of Muhammad), along with quotes from a consensus of Islamic scholars, IS labels Christianity a false religion and calls persecution of Christians a “fundamental” aspect of Islam that has fallen out of use in the modern era.
“In the recent past, these rites were absent from the condition of the Muslim Nation. Rather, these rites were the hostages of jurisprudence books and theoretical legal discussions,” An-Nashwan says. Quoting the Koran, he adds, “Allah said, ‘Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day, and those who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful, and those who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Book. Fight [them] until they give the Jizyah willingly while they are humbled.’”
Going further, An-Nashwan quotes numerous religious edicts issued in consensus by Islamic scholars regarding the treatment of Christians and Jews.
“Whoever does not consider the Jews and Christians to be disbelievers and does not hate them is not a Muslim,” An-Nashwan says, quoting Islamic scholar Al Islam Ibn-Taymiyyah. Citing a Hadith (saying or action of Muhammad), An-Nashwan says Muhammad told his followers to be aggressive toward Christians and Jews, declaring, “If you meet Jews or Christians, do not great them in peace.”
The video is similar to previous IS execution videos with one major difference: In a recording that lasts just over 29 minutes, 24 minutes are spent explaining the Islamic version of the life of Jesus Christ, giving an equally inaccurate account of the history of Christianity and justifying persecution of Christians.
In a possible attempt to give credibility to IS claims that “Dhimmi” (non-Muslims living under protected but second-class status) are treated well in Islamic society, several people who identify themselves as Christians in Raqqah, the de facto capital of IS in Syria, are interviewed. All claim they were well treated under IS rule.
“The one who comes to Raqqah (after paying Jizya) does not have to worry, whether he is Christian or even Jewish,” says one man. Another assures his fellow Christians that life is safe for Christians in Dhimmi status, saying, “By Allah, we are happy. We’ve seen security under the Islamic State.”…
mortimer says
Why do whitewashers like John Esposito (the paid disinformationist for Soddy Barbaria) go silent when there are strings of atrocities by Koran-quoting psychopaths?
Perhaps Islam-apologists like Esposito can explain how ISIS Wahhabist doctrines are different from Soddy Wahhabist doctrines. Do you see a difference? I can’t see a difference.
Proud Pork Fan says
I can’t believe in this day and age, with all the info we have at our fingertips that Obama and the media can get away with bamboozling the public by convincing them that ISIS has nothing to do with Islam or the koran. It is an out and out blatant and obvious lie that can be so easily debunked, as Robert has done a million times. And what is this lie accomplishing??? It is massively emboldening (case-in-point: the arrogant piggish muslim “students”‘ behavior at Pamela Geller’s talk at Brooklyn College Wednesday) those who want to kill us here and abroad.
Doesn’t Obama see the massive acceleration in increase in the number of muslim terrorist acts and attempts??? A huge part of that is because of Obama and others not naming Islamic atrocities for what they are and that they are directly connected to the koran and hadiths. It is the ideology stupid. That is what we need to fight and stop the spread of and ignoring it and hoping it will go away is suicide.
mortimer says
“bamboozling the public by convincing them that ISIS has nothing to do with Islam or the Koran”
I think that strategy has now visibly failed. Americans have reached a turning point with 70% now declaring that ISIS is a threat to the US. The number appears to be growing. The disapproval ratings against Islam will be posted in the next months showing a big jump in disapproval.
There are still a substantial minority who steadfastly refuse to believe Islam is dangerous, but that group is less certain than they were six months ago.
Proud Pork Fan says
I hope you are right. I just wish the POTUS and media would start naming the threat and quit removing the word “Islamic” from the sentence. They need to quit apologizing for Islam and quit calling us “islamophobes” and “bigots” when we make the obvious connection between the violence and the Islamic scriptures. That is wrong, stupid and totally counterproductive to the goal of stopping the spread of the Islamist ideology.
Paul says
Of course it has nothing to do with Islam. If you end up getting
sliced up by a demon possessed jihadi who justifies their
actions with passages from the Koran, you’d better not
criticise the ideology as they’re cutting through your neck or
you’ll be a ‘racist’. One of the murderers of Lee Rigby explained
how he was “forced” to do so by quoting certain Koranic verses.
He also said that the government doesn’t care about us and will
be nowhere to be seen once they start “busting” their guns.
I’m sure our government have our back and we’ll be nice and
safe. We can trust our leaders implicitly. I am sure.
mortimer says
“whoever refuses (Islamization) will see nothing from us but the edge of a spear”
How many Muslims in Western countries secretly agree with that sentiment?
Don McKellar says
A muslim spokesman explain it? How about somebody with a major platform like PM Cameron or Imam Kerry? Or even leftist media idiots like Rachel Maddow and all her ilk? They are the prize fools spreading the misinformation and putting up the smoke screens about Islam using their platforms. Although it is entirely possible that with them it is a result of wilful ignorance, rather than purposeful deception like it is for the muslim spokesmen who are practising taqiyya and kitman.
Wellington says
What happened to the two articles written by Fellah?
Jaladhi says
Why doesn’t the civilized world declare crusade against these ISIS barbarians?? What are they waiting for?
Gary says
“nor acknowledge the religion of Truth”
Naaa….. Why let the truth get in the way of a great lie?!
Islamists: The puppets of Satan.
somehistory says
Killing Christians is “fundamental” to islam….so what happens when all Christians have been killed? Would that mean that islam could no longer be practiced?
Of course, that scenario isn’t going to happen, no matter how many Christians they put to the sword…or “spear”…Christians will come out the winners. It has been promised by a Real, True God Who actually has power. The True God does not depend on humans to carry out His Judicial decrees.
satan and his worshippers have a limited future. The wild beast of islam will soon be sliced and diced and thrown into the fire…and then forgotten.
Ephesian says
Totally agree.Man plans,God laughs.These islamic nutjobs are soooo delusional,I’ll take your spear and raise you a missile….
Frank says
Please, forget your god, or any other god. They are the most ferocious killers of all, and all this while they don’t even exist.
FBA says
Well, your ignorant remark is not at all helpful. But it is stupid and illogical as well because to make the statement you MUST elevate yourself to god status thus self-fulfilling your own prophecy. You’re the reason we are where we are.
Michael Copeland says
“Okay, they have three choices, either they became a Muslim, or they have to pay the jizya, or to be killed.” http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/home/root/news-libertygb/4402-islam-the-learning-curve
Might Theresa May soon gain an understanding?
jihad me at hello says
Why was there no mention of this mass execution of Ethiopian Christians in the newspapers or on the radio? Only found out by chance while casually browsing the Internet. The majority of those in the media M.O is. = omissions, distortions, lies and appeasement by apologists for Islam. Tired of been treated by the media like a mushroom, kept in the dark and fed shit. Shame on you ABC Radio/TV, you are the worst when it comes to this. Shame!!!
Lynn says
“It is the nature if Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose it’s law on all nations and to extend it’s power to the entire planet”. Hasa Al-Banna Founder of the muslim brotherhood
And they mean it.
zoe says
The.answer to this is in Muslim hands, they have to uphold the honour of their religion or respect will.be lost by Christians forever. The Muslims themselves need to eradicate these idiots, this isn’t anything to.do.with a religion and everything to do.with power over others.