They beheaded him when their ransom demands were not met. This is all according to Islamic law. Here is a salient passage on this issue from a Shafi’i manual of Islamic law:
When an adult male is taken captive, the caliph considers the interests … (of Islam and the Muslims) and decides between the prisoner’s death, slavery, release without paying anything, or ransoming himself in exchange for money or for a Muslim captive held by the enemy. (Umdat al-Salik (Reliance of the Traveller) o9.14)
A revered Islamic jurist, Al-Mawardi, agrees with Reliance of the Traveller:
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 or manumission; the third, to ransom them in exchange for goods or prisoners; and fourth, to show favor to them and pardon them. (Al-Ahkam As-Sultaniyyah (The Laws of Islamic Governance), 4.5)
“‘Vicious and brutal’: A second Canadian man is beheaded by Islamist militants in the Philippines,” by Ben Guarino, Washington Post, June 14, 2016:
A small group of Islamist militants in the Philippines, known as Abu Sayyaf, has beheaded a second Canadian hostage in two months, authorities said Tuesday.
“We strongly condemn the brutal and senseless murder of Mr. Robert Hall, a Canadian national, after being held captive by the Abu Sayyaf group in Sulu for the past nine months,” Herminio Coloma, a representative for the Philippines President Benigno Aquino, said in a statement, according to AFP. A head believed to belong to Hall, 58, was found Monday on an island near an Abu Sayyaf outpost.
In April, the same group decapitated Canadian John Ridsdel, a 68-year-old businessman. Gunmen had kidnapped Ridsdel and Hall, along with Hall’s Filipina partner Marites Flor and a resort manager from Norway named Kjartan Sekkingstad, from the island of Samal in September….
Abu Sayyaf has a decades-long history of taking hostages and demanding ransoms, which both the Canadian and Philippine governments oppose paying. AFP reports that Abu Sayyaf murdered Hall when a $6.5 million ransom demand was not met….

Islam_Macht_Frei says
This is the way it works now: Muslims commit an atrocity (Orlando, hostage beheadings, murdering police, etc) and the civilized world responds with vain and meaningless rhetoric and hashtags (#lovewins, Je Suis Charlie, #bringbackourgirls, etc)
Rinse and repeat….
Eur says
Who has bombed Philippines? West damn! Wo can not leve alone the poor muslims countries. Of course this has nothing to do with islam as we all know means peaceeeeee
Pam Minnick says
Arabic word Islam implies the attainment of peace through submission to Allah.
Dave says
It’s Trumps fault , Prez OB said so
R Cole says
Islamophobia is solely responsible for parts of the Muslim world erupting into violence. That what we say here has something to do with what Muslims do in far flung places across the world. Absolutely insane!
The reality is the same old story – the Muslim militants in the Philippines and in Southern Thailand – are separatists who want an autonomous Islamic state – within these countries.
So they start murdering people – Christians in the Philippines and Buddhists [monks ,teachers, you name it] in Southern Thailand – and to get ‘peace’ these countries have to agree to allow them to have their own region governed under the sharia.
WorkingClassPost says
These muzzies are seeking their own little sharia state, so they hostage then kill Westerners even though it’s got nothing to do with the
Westislam.Lord Wrath says
It’s all our fault… We won the Spanish American War… If Obama had been president then instead of now,,, we would have lost and none of this would ever have happened…
Michael Copeland says
Memo to Washington Post:
“Islamists” follow the ideology called Islam.
They are indistinguishable from observant muslims.
All follow the same Koran, the same Hadiths, the same Sunna.
PRCS says
They ARE observant Muslims.
The MOST observant Muslims.
ProudAmerican says
And of course this horrible and very relevant story won’t get two seconds of air time on MSM. Maybe Trump will mention it, giving it some of the attention it is rightfully due.
Godwin says
If elected, Trump would have sent the drones to bomb Abu Sayaff, the kidnappers out of existence.
Don McKellar says
I’m sure that Justin Turdeau didn’t make any connection to the fact that their hostage taking and ransom demands were purely Islamic in nature. And he never will if he can help it!
Carolyne says
I was going to say “How in the world did Canadians elect Trudeau?” and then I remembered Obama.
Angemon says
WWJD – What Will Justin Do?
Jay Boo says
Justin would ask,
WWMD
Godwin says
He is stupid. If he had sent the Canadian navy to blockade the Sulu sea , the kidnappers would have have released the hostages for their villages economic life lines depend on the barter trade with Sabah, Malaysia.
Godwin says
How could a big country be bullied by about 2 hundred Islamists????????????
eur says
for the same reason that in Syria Isis, al Nusra … take so long killing … because many people support them . As in Morocco with the Salafists in Egypt with al qaeda …
Damiac says
Thank you, Robert. I appreciate it.
Jay Boo says
Canadian loses life during Filipino political strife.
African infidel says
Even though Canada loves muslim/jihadists and shipped in 25 thousand recently muslims from Syria they still did this to them? Now Canada should deport the 25000 muslims back to Saudi Arabia and only ressetle Christians, yazidis etc.
linnte says
Note his frail appearance! They starved him too. Disgusting vile sub-humans!
citycat says
What price a life?
Stay out of Muslim lands.
In countries where Muslims do not have to remain true to Islam, no matter what, Muslims will remain true to Islam. This makes them complicit.
I suppose that is the power of the deeply ingrained morality since birth.
There is no compassion in Islam. Islam is sub-human.
Carolyne says
They come to the US and other Western countries in search, they say, of a better life. Then as soon as they are established, they try to make their new country into a replica of their old one. Where will they go to have a better life once they succeed?
Baucent says
This is a group that could be rooted out and destroyed. They are isolated on relatively small islands so can effectively be surrounded, contained and destroyed. But will take political will along with military assistance as Philippine military seems incapable.
Screeminmeeme says
Expect Canada to respond by opening the door even wider to Islamic immigration and making apologies for pissing off the beheaders.
It’s always a good idea to invite homicidal maniacs into your home and make excuses for them.
Can anyone say…’suicide’ ?
xxxChurch100 says
Dear Jihad Watchers , it is 5 months ago today that Australian missionary Dr Ken Elliot was abducted from Bakina Fuso , West Africa ..
Dr Ellliot funded & built a hospital there and worked to support the local communitiy over a period of 43 years. The hospital is the only medical facility for hundres of kilometers .
Dr Elliott is thought to be in Mali , held by the Ansa Dine group , who invoke Mohammad as their motivation for these actions .
Please pray for Dr Elliot and family and his safe return .
Carolyne says
Dr. Elliot must be a kind, talented man but he didn’t understand that what he was doing had no value to the Muslims. Their only value is a 7th century butcher whom they follow and kill people like Dr. Eliot. I send my sympathy to his family and hope he might be alive, but the West should stop trying to better the lives of these barbarians.