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Russia: Four dead in courthouse shootout after Muslims try to grab guns from officers and take hostages

Aug 1, 2017 9:08 am By Robert Spencer

“The nine men, all from Central Asia, are charged with 17 murders and two attempted murders.” There were earlier, unconfirmed reports that this gang was recruiting for the Islamic State.

Hostage-taking is a practice that is sanctified in Sharia. 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)

“Four killed in shooting at Moscow court,” Reuters, August 1, 2017:

MOSCOW – Four people standing trial in a Moscow court were killed on Tuesday in a gunfight that broke out in the court building, a lawyer for the defendants said….

TASS news agency said the gunfight broke out after some of the defendants had tried to grab firearms from court security officers, and take hostages.

“2 injured in shooting at courthouse outside Moscow,” Associated Press, August 1, 2017 (thanks to David):

Two people have been injured in a shooting inside a courthouse in a Moscow suburb, local health officials said on Tuesday.

Russia news agencies quoted the Moscow region’s health ministry as saying that a 45-year-old man and a 40-year-old woman have been taken to the hospital from the Moscow Regional Court with gunshot wounds….

Russia media dubbed the accused “the Grand Theft Auto gang” after the violent video game. The men on trial are accused of terrorizing Moscow motorists for months in 2014. Prosecutors said the gang members were placing spikes on roads, forcing the motorists out of their vehicles and shooting them dead.

The nine men, all from Central Asia, are charged with 17 murders and two attempted murders.

“Casualties reported in shooting at Moscow region court,” RT, August 1, 2017:

Shots have been fired at the Moscow Region court, according to the court’s spokesperson, who said the site of the incident has been evacuated. There are reports of several people being shot, as members of a criminal gang disarmed their police escort….

No less than 20 shots were heard, a witness, attorney Sofia Rubasskaya, told RIA Novosti.

“There was a shootout at the court, some employees were injured, a female enforcement agent was injured as well,” she said.

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  1. mortimer says

    Aug 1, 2017 at 10:56 am

    When Muslims behave like jihadists, they are heroes to other Muslims. Jihad is the ‘hump of the camel’, the highest deed in Islam.

  2. mortimer says

    Aug 1, 2017 at 12:05 pm

    According to the Arena Atlas, 6.5% or 9,400,000 Russians are Muslims. Another survey by the Pew Research Center, in May 2017, found that 10% of Russia’s population is Muslim. According to a news article of Russia Today, Muslim minorities make up approximately 15% of the total population of Russia.

    Most of these ‘cultural Muslims’ are non-practicing.

    • b.a. freeman says

      Aug 1, 2017 at 2:11 pm

      doesn’t matter. all a jihadi has to do is show the relevant passages from the quran, the ahadith collections of sahih al bukhari or sahih muslim, and the sirat rasul allah of ibn ishaq to the non-practicer, and he will have to make the decision to become devout (i.e., become a jihadii, or support them), or be treated worse than infidels (i.e., be killed). so long as islam is allowed to exist, some fraction of muslims will, just statistically, turn devout and start the slaughter anew.

      this vile pirate cult, a gang with religious excuses attached, needs to be eliminated.

    • Peggy says

      Aug 2, 2017 at 5:24 am

      When push comes to shove who do you think they’ll support? They will be practicing then and time is coming when there will be a war with Islam.
      At least Russians aren’t afraid to handle them the way they should be handled.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUBXXmtvutQ

      I wish Australian cops would do the same.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 2, 2017 at 9:08 pm

        True, Peggy–even most of these “non-practicing” Muslims will do nothing to prevent Jihad and the imposition of Shari’ah, and very few indeed will actually stand with Infidels against their Jihadist coreligionists.

  3. Voytek Gagalka says

    Aug 1, 2017 at 12:22 pm

    Instead of treating them as enemy combatants (and execute promptly after short investigation), they “play” with them in the civilian court system as common criminals to which category they most definitely do not belong. Insanity of authorities don’t know the bounds. Hence, the pay (and WILL continue to pay) the price!

  4. Robeaver says

    Aug 1, 2017 at 12:29 pm

    They were attacked on the roadside by distraught people whose tires just blew out. Self defense will be their lawyers plea.. ….
    The islamophobic court house guards put temptation in front of them with available guns. Plain case of entrapement.. .
    And the came from poverty and are illiterate and insane, so they are not responsible for their actions. The West bears the blame for 17 muders of people driving, as cars represent the evil capitalist system. Have we ever read the kurran in Arabic? Well then we are wrong and islamb oh foh bick. Yep bicks all. I am a son of a bick myself.

  5. Al says

    Aug 1, 2017 at 6:48 pm

    So far there are two conditions that are most difficult to deal with: 1] demonic possession, and 2] religious zealotry. Demonic possession, with the willingness of the affected, can be healed. Zealotry, by definition, can’t be healed because, again by definition, the affected are so blinded by their own mind set of knowing the truth, change is impossible. Islam has perfected its brainwashing skills to qualify its most strict adherents as zealots. Now , we know some persons of the Islamic faith are not so zealous because some do convert to Christianity. However, those few souls are subject to being killed under Islamic law which illustrates this historical fact: Islamic zealots have always held the ruling power within Islam. This conclusion eliminates the claim that there is such a thing as a moderate Islamic. The planners for bringing the entire world into forced submission to Allah are bright, determined, and operate on the basis of absolutely no restrictions based on morality,, ethics or virtue. Beware of the Ides of Islam as you may, from a lofty position, see your head rolling before you.

  6. gravenimage says

    Aug 2, 2017 at 9:01 pm

    Russia: Four dead in courthouse shootout after Muslims try to grab guns from officers and take hostages

    “The nine men, all from Central Asia, are charged with 17 murders and two attempted murders.”
    …………………………

    And they wanted to add some more murders to the list.

    Where is “Christianblood” to tell us that Jihad is not an actual problem in Russia?

    • Peggy says

      Aug 3, 2017 at 7:58 am

      Yes, it is a huge problem everywhere but one thing is different with Russia. in Russia the problem has been there for centuries. Those Muslims lived on those lands for as long as Russians but the west is importing them.
      Why oh why is the west importing problems they didn’t need?
      The west was free, clean and had a great future. It really makes me angry.

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