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.
Clearly it is time for the Pope and the U.S. Catholic bishops to ramp up their “dialogue” with Muslim leaders, and intensify their efforts to silence those who speak about Muslim persecution of Christians. That will fix this right up.
Meanwhile, Fox says the number of Christians is actually 250.
“ISIL Threatens to Execute 180 Assyrian Christians,” Sputnik, October 10, 2015:
Members of the ISIL terrorist group threatened to execute 180 Assyrian Christians abducted in Syria in late February, Russian media reported on Saturday.
“They demand a ransom of 12 million dollars for the lives of our men,” a representative of the Assyrian community told RIA Novosti news agency.
On Thursday several Arabic-language TV channels showed an ISIL-released video showing three Assyrian men dressed in orange jumpsuits before they were shot dead.
One of the men said ISIL would begin executing the other prisoners if the militants’ demands were not met….
David says
Can you even imagine the world wide OUTRAGE if a bunch of wackos held even 5 muslims for ransom? This is absolutely sickening!
Dan says
How did we solve that Barbary pirate issue thingy again?
Fishface says
I was thinking weeks ago that the solution to saving Christians in the Middle East may be to offer to purchase them from ISIS. Would you pay the ransom if you had the money and it was a member of your family? Of course you would. Stan-in-usa says never and then calls ISIS CIA/Mossad proxies. This is something Leftists say, to claim ISIS is not Islamic, but an invention.
When the Khmer Rouge leftovers were kidnapping backpackers, govt.s were pressured to pay the ransom. Almost no one disagreed. When it’s Christians, there’s silence. Christians need to pressure their governments, just as everyone else does.
Jay Boo says
How to speak “ISIS”
Immediate release or all mosque buildings in Syria turned into a pile of dust covered in bacon fat .
gravenimage says
Islamic State threatens to murder 180 Christians unless it gets $12 million ransom
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Orthodox Islam.
Edward says
The brutal marching attacks now happening in the ME seems to be motivating some of Islam’s apologetics to deploy a damage control MO. I guess they see the center of the hurricane moving out sea and its stirring winds of mistrust by the local’s, which is causing great concern about the Muslim’s own community’s safety. Maybe they are coming to terms about the behavior of the Jihad’s as being too evil. Perhaps too, they are lying as like they have dealt with other matters in the past to save grace.
Here’s a website that wants to be inclusive with Christianity tenets now:
That Prophet-Paraclete-Muhammad:
http://www.onislam.net/english/reading-islam/research-studies/comparative-religion/453323-muhammad-in-the-bible-.html
What! They now desperately claim Mohammad is the promised Christianity’s “Comforter”
Edward says
Hey, maybe Bishop Fulton J. Sheen was right, that Islam’s conversion to Christianity was a possibility!
Edward says
I can’t quit lamenting over the 180 Christians facing death if the $12 M ransom is not paid off. Talking about the Christian’s dilemma with my wife she immediately commented; “Trump could offer the money to free those poor people”, but with a stipulation she barked; “but with a strong warning to the perpetrator’s from Trump that he’s coming back to squeeze the hell out of them!”
Reasoning: yes it is wrong to accommodate the enemy demands, but a show of Courage coming from Trump’s warning’s would bring blessings to him because of his compassionate standing in defending our Creator’s human creation’s lives! Also, his courage will attest to his personality that he wills to deliver what he promises! The Muslim’s, I can say honors courageous enemies, for they fear his tenacity to win!
We hope more Christian’s will encourage Trump to do just that…. as an act of compassion …..complimenting his abilities to make America the Beautiful again!
David Race says
Minor correction. The following quotation is found on p.76, not 192.
“As for the captives, the amir 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 favour to them and pardon them. Allah, may he be exalted, says, ‘When you encounter those who deny [the Truth] then strike [their] necks’ (Qur’an 47: 4)”
I can understand how this mix up may have occurred since page 192 speaks of the different possibilities(four, three or two courses of action) for prisoners of war based on the rulings of Shafi’i, Malik and Hanifah.
Take care,
David Race
James says
— to those who ask why USA backs and bankrolls islamic terrorists like muslimbro’hood, etc, the answer in one horrible word…. OBAMA ! dear leader has undermined and emasculated our military and stuffed it full of yes-men and leftist sycophants. Obama is the worst enemy the USA has had since the democrat confederacy and their civil war of 1861-1865, Dems controlled the slave states, started the war that killed 620,000 Americans to protect the slavers, invented and led the KKK, and followed that up with Jim Crow. And just think….. blacks voted 93% for Obama in 2008 and 2012. I always thought black people were equal in intelligence but the record of the Obama years makes me wonder???… Black unemployment is up and black income is down with Obama… the post-racial prezz!