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Burkina Faso: Muslim murder Canadian geologist they kidnapped

Jan 18, 2019 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

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. (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)

“Kirk Woodman, Canadian kidnapped in Burkina Faso, found dead,” CBC News, January 17, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A Canadian kidnapped in Burkina Faso has been found dead, says his family, two days after he was abducted.

Kirk Woodman, originally from Halifax, was abducted Tuesday night by a dozen gunmen at a mining site owned by Vancouver-based Progress Minerals in Tiabongou, near the border with Niger, in an area the government says is under growing threat from armed jihadists….

A spokesperson for the Burkina Faso Security Ministry told Radio-Canada that Woodman had been shot and his body was found Wednesday night, 100 kilometres from the site where he worked….

Alpha Barry, Burkina Faso’s minister of foreign affairs and co-operation, referred to Woodman’s death as an “assassination.”

“The government of Burkina condemns with the utmost energy this cowardly assassination and reassures that an investigation is opened and all the measures will be taken to find and punish the guilty,” he said in a statement in French posted to Facebook on Thursday….

David Duncan, a veteran exploration geologist based in Windsor, N.S., said he worked with Woodman on projects in the province and overseas for more than four decades.

In an interview Wednesday, he described Woodman as a talented geologist — part of a wider community of Nova Scotia-trained geologists who helped find mines around the globe. He had the ability to tell whether a good prospect could become a producing mine, said Duncan.

Duncan and Woodman worked for Etruscan Resources of Halifax on some of the first gold mines in Niger and then in Burkina Faso — as part of a close-knit group of Canadian geologists pioneering the development of mines in western Africa.

He said working as an exploration geologist in western Africa always had its dangers, ranging from the risk of traffic accidents to contracting diseases such as malaria, but Duncan said in recent years that the risk increased with the rise of Islamic militancy.

“It’s a terrible thing, a terrible thing. We understood since the Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler was kidnapped in Niger that part of the world had changed … with the introduction of Islamic fundamentalists into that part of the world,” he said.

“It’s gotten to be a much harder place… We were never worried about being kidnapped. Today, it’s a different world.”

He’s the second Canadian to go missing in the country in recent weeks, Burkina Faso Security Minister Clément Sawadogo said.

Quebec resident Edith Blais, 34, and her Italian travel companion, Luca Tacchetto, 30, were last heard from in the western city of Bobo-Dioulasso on Dec. 15….

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  1. mortimer says

    Jan 18, 2019 at 11:15 am

    The terrorist message of Islam to Canadians is surely starting to register in even the thickest skulls of doctrinaire globalists.

    • Dawn says

      Jan 18, 2019 at 11:21 am

      Probably not !

    • Charles says

      Jan 18, 2019 at 3:12 pm

      The globalists do not care. They are being empowered with Muslim Brotherhood funding through Islamists like Aga Khan. They have a warchest of $$$trillions and our corporate media and globalist billionaires are more interested in money than truth.

  2. Manuel 2 Paleologus says

    Jan 18, 2019 at 11:29 am

    God rest his soul with the just and may his memory be a direct eyewitness to the Canadians on what islam is. Trudeau must accept what he does is against the Canadians and the Canadian culture which is Christian. Being a friendly to muslims will not convert them but will open the door to the poisoning snake.
    Listen to Dr Warner outstanding presentation of Islam
    https://youtu.be/INH9tKrhh4w?list=PL6ZloCqMDqLNJkd32Jfsgefqb2ekXkp3D

    • Jayme says

      Jan 18, 2019 at 11:34 am

      Canada is to deep in now its only going to get worse.

  3. Battle says

    Jan 18, 2019 at 11:35 am

    Robert Spencer, good comment.

    Mortimer, good comment.

  4. Wellington says

    Jan 18, 2019 at 1:09 pm

    This was described as a “cowardly assassination” and it surely was that but I think it imperative to grasp that Islam condones cowardly assassinations just as it condones rape—both for all time. No other religion condones barbarism like this. Islam stand alone here, revealing its hideousness and barbarism to all who take the time to read the Islamic texts.

    Sick religion. Very. None other like it. Absolutely incapable of reform because you cannot reform rot.

    • Raja says

      Jan 18, 2019 at 4:31 pm

      Wellington, Well said.. Particularly the comment: You cannot reform rot.

  5. Manny says

    Jan 18, 2019 at 1:18 pm

    Savages. This isn’t a religion. It’s a disgusting cult of ignorance and savagery.

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 18, 2019 at 2:25 pm

    So very wicked and godless those Muslim kidnappers and murderers truly are .For not only does the Bible instruct “You shall not Murder” Exodus 20 :13. [N.K.J.V.] but any government that is Bible based ,in any way , should put those Muslims who is guilty kidnappers and murderers death As Exodus 21; 12 reads 16 instruct “He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.” then verse 16 of the same chapter further instructs “He who kidnaps a man …shall be put to death.” This overrules and overrules any teachings in that the Shaifi i manual of Islamic law. For all forms of Islamic law ,including Sharia , are based on the Quran which had been exposed , many times s over as a religious hoax.

    Not to get to far of the many topic but this is a good and fitting to explain the in some cause ,as this or those Muslims who vicious murdered to those young Scandinavian women by beheading them should be executed for the murders they committed

    This strongly leads to the issue of Capital Punishment those who go outside, in America , and protest against the state government using of the death penalty and holding up signs show the words printed on them “Thou shall not kill”, those four words which are the sixth commandment , Exodus 20:13. are taken form the AUTHORIZED KING JAMES VERSION translation of the Bible of the Ten Commandments . By and large the A.K.J.V.is a good translation yet not a perfect one. For Jewish and Christian scholar who understand the original Hebrew which the Old Testament , some call it the “Older Testament “, of the Bible which was first written in Hebrew, the point the those scholars will inform all who are willing to listen that the word was “Murder”” and not “Kill” in the original Hebrew of which the First Old Testament was written.
    There is a vast different between those two words “Killing “and “murder “, for example a dictionary definition of the word “Murder” is “the unlawful and malicious act of killing another person.” In contrast “Killing is defined as “To put to death or to slay”

    So the anti-capital punishment people who quote Exodus 20:13 in the A.K.J. V. might also look up that same specific verse in the NEW KING JAMS VERSION and see how it’s put right by reading “ You shall not murder” For in the very next chapter in Exodus 21:12 it reads “He who strikes man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.”

    Further, in the New Testament the Bible reader in Roman 13:1-4 that not only are governmental law enforcement forces are ordained by God to hold back and stop the criminal and wicked activities by evil and dangerous men. This also this may extent to the criminal courts which h included punishment for the evil doer. If the Bible student examines more closely the specific verse number four he or she will discover that the scripture even refers to the government executor as type of minister of God to punish such evil men.

    Such as those murderous Muslims overseas as in this above article or those murderous Muslims who brutally beheaded those two young Scandinavian women or non -religious murderers of North America as in Canada the villain Russell Williams and Ted Bundy of the USA those wicked men, in the light of the Bible, should be put to death.

    In conclusion the people who use their constitutional right to speak out against capital punishment do and should have the right of freedom of speech and expression to let other know how they feel on the subject of capital punishment. Nevertheless they either don’t know or do know but couldn’t care less that they are misusing the Bible in quoting Exodus 20:13 out of context.

    Some of the anti –capital punishment feel might feel real righteous and pious by quoting that single verse out of the whole Bible , still in spite of the “pious emotions” some of them might have ,they are still misusing the Bible.

  7. Or Else! says

    Jan 18, 2019 at 3:41 pm

    But….mosques are giving away free hijabs! They’ll even write your name in that fancy Arabic calligraphy! You know, it’s how they glorify Allah with passages like: “And when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush.”

    Seriously, if the peaceful Muslims are in the majority….why don’t they speak/rise up against the barbarism? Because that would mean

    Ironically, Islam claims to be a monotheism…but it certainly has a polytheistic premise.

    Allah of peace.
    Allah of tolerance.
    Allah of Muslim supremacy.
    Allah of child marriage.
    Allah of Jew hatred.
    Allah of Do What I Say, or else!

  8. gravenimage says

    Jan 18, 2019 at 11:48 pm

    Burkina Faso: Muslim murder Canadian geologist they kidnapped
    …………………

    This poor man and his family. This is horrifying, but grimly not surprising/

  9. infidel says

    Jan 19, 2019 at 6:54 am

    All the appeasement and money given by the Turd did not in any way diminish the hatred these animals have with his countrymen… And I’m sure that more of these animals are on their to Canadian citizenship and endless Canadian welfare and appeasement.

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