These people were probably abducted so as to collect ransoms. 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.
“ISIS abducts 230 civilians in central Syria,” AFP, August 7, 2015:
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group has abducted 230 civilians, including at least 60 Christians, in a central Syrian town hours after it captured it, a monitoring group said on Friday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the civilians were taken on Thursday in the town of Al-Qaryatain, which ISIS jihadists had captured late Wednesday.
“Daesh kidnapped at least 230 people, including at least 60 Christians, during a sweep through Al-Qaryatain,” Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said, using another name for ISIS.
Many of the Christians had fled from Aleppo province, in Syria’s north, to seek refuge in Al-Qaryatain.
He said those abducted were wanted by ISIS for “collaborating with the regime,” and their names were on a list used by the jihadists as they swept through the town.
Families who tried to flee or hide were tracked down and taken by the jihadists, he said.
Al-Qaryatain lies at the crossroads between ISIS territory in the eastern countryside of Homs and areas further west in the Qalamun area.
It had a pre-war population of 18,000, including Sunni Muslims and around 2,000 Syriac Catholics and Orthodox Christians.
According to a Syrian Christian who lives in Damascus but is originally from Al-Qaryatain, the town’s Christian population has dropped to only 300….
mortimer says
Obama, Kerry and Cameron have an ‘iron dogma’ of their own: the there is a ‘GOOD GOLDEN-RULE VERSION OF ISLAM’. There isn’t.
Islam’s ethical counterpart to the Golden Rule is K. 48.29 “Muhammad is the messenger of Allah; Those with him are VIOLENT (ashiddaa’) against the unbelievers (kufaar); Compassionate amongst themselves.” That statement is ‘eternally true’ for Muslims. Inequality is ‘divine’ and unquestionable under pain of death. Dirty kafirs are no better than vermin to be exterminated.
Islam’s goal is the political SUPREMACISM of Muslims over disbelievers by whatever means necessary including violence, extortion, enslavement, genocide, rape or deception.
Violence against non-Muslims is normative Islam; Allah said so. Muslim prayers curse Christians and Jews 17 times a day.
Intolerant? Peaceful? No.
jihad3tracker says
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Walter Sieruk says
The God of the Bible, not the god of Islam, so much detests such lawless, cruel behavioral as those ISIS fiends commit the He had declared the death penalty for those villains who engage in this heinous practice. For the Bible reads ” Those who steal someone to sell as a slave or to keep them for their own slave must be killed.” Exodus 21:16. [E.R.V.]
Jay Boo says
WWMD
Real Islam is not BBC Islam.
Hmmm
Yes, this might have something to do with core Islamic ideology.
duh_swami says
Allah needs a constant supply of new blood, so Mahounians provide it…Mahaoundians need a constant supply of free sex, money and power, so Allah provides it…A marriage performed in the bottom of a pit called Islam…making the pious, ‘People of the Pit’…Islam is the pits, ain’t it?
Angemon says
Communist Russia with a god.
Jaladhi says
Of course, the dumb people can’t tolerate logic and intelligence!! There are no dumber people than the followers of ROP which makes them dumb with the religious fatwas like this.
Jaladhi says
Oops, posted on wrong thread!
Lookmann says
UPDATE: Nuri Kino, founder of ADFA, told IBTimes UK that the definitive number of Syriac Orthodox and Syriac Catholics kidnapped by IS is 250. The figure comes from local churches’ records.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/syria-isis-kidnaps-150-assyrian-christians-qaryatain-including-women-children-1514496
Anabelle says
ISIS that invaded Al Qaryatayn have posted photos of their first Friday Caliph Services at the Al Fardous Mosque in Al Qaryatayn http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=893_1439032282 The leader is on there, post is picture and lets out him.