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Egypt: Muslims kidnap Christian man traveling in taxi in Sinai peninsula

Jan 19, 2019 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

This is sanctioned in Islamic law. Now the kidnapped man will be killed, enslaved, exchanged for ransom, or released outright. 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)

“Militants kidnap Christian man in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula,” by Hamza Hendawi, Associated Press, January 17, 2019 9:59 am

CAIRO (AP) — Islamic militants on Thursday kidnapped a Christian man traveling in a communal taxi in the turbulent north of Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, according to security officials, an incident that raises the specter of renewed attacks on minority Christians in the region after a two-year lull.

The officials did not identify the man, but said police pursued the kidnappers into the desert to which they fled after the incident, killing one of them and wounding two others in a firefight, but could not free the hostage. Two policemen were also wounded in the firefight, said the officials.

There was no word on whether any of the other passengers traveling in the taxi, a minibus, were harmed, suggesting that the kidnapping of the Christian man could have been planned. The attack took place about 30 kilometers (19 miles) west of el-Arish, northern Sinai’s largest city, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.

A spate of attacks on Christians in northern Sinai in late 2016 and early 2017 forced nearly 300 families to flee their homes there and find refuge elsewhere in Egypt. Those killed included a cleric, workers, a doctor and a merchant. The last Christian to be killed in Sinai was in January 2018, when militants gunned him down as he walked on the street in el-Arish.

The militants, now led by the Islamic State group, say they are punishing the Christians for their support of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi who, as defense minister, led the military’s overthrow of an Islamist president whose one year in office proved divisive.

The spiritual leader of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Christians, whose ancient church is the country’s predominant Christian denomination, is a close ally of el-Sissi, who has made sectarian harmony a cornerstone of his domestic policy. His patronage of the community has given Christians a measure of protection but did little to protect them from Islamic radicals, particularly in regions south of Cairo where Christians are a sizable minority.

Since 2016, IS militants have killed more than 100 Christians in attacks targeting churches and buses carrying pilgrims to remote desert monasteries. Radicals in provinces like Minya, south of Cairo, whip up anti-Christian sentiments among Muslims, frequently leading mobs that torch Christian homes and businesses or run families out of villages and small towns….

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  1. Battle says

    Jan 19, 2019 at 2:15 pm

    Christianphobic.

  2. gravenimage says

    Jan 19, 2019 at 3:17 pm

    Egypt: Muslims kidnap Christian man traveling in taxi in Sinai peninsula
    ………………

    This *poor man*. Jihadists often kidnap Christians, then demand a ransom they know the impoverished Christians cannot pay. The whole point of this is to add unearned guilt to the pain of Christians when their loved ones are murdered.

    Kidnap victims have been rescued by police in Muslim countries, but it is grimly very rare.

  3. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Jan 19, 2019 at 6:07 pm

    Spread the word, BOYCOTT ALL MUSLIM COUNTRIES!! Stay out of these uncivilized Muslim hell holes and don’t import their madness. Protect yourselves and loved ones.

    • Joss says

      Jan 20, 2019 at 12:39 pm

      Please tell our western politicos to stop importing them. They don’t listen to the people!

  4. Wellington says

    Jan 19, 2019 at 8:13 pm

    Far better if the Sinai were part of Israel from the Six-Day War onward (1967). If so, Israel would be a nation of over 30,000 square miles rather than a nation of only some 8,000 square miles. Far better for Israeli security if so (and even assuming the cold peace with Egypt would not have happened but for Israel turning the Sinai over to yet another dysfunctional, repressive Muslim nation).

    Sometimes, you know, size matters.

  5. mortimer says

    Jan 19, 2019 at 8:41 pm

    Sinai became a TERRORIST ZONE during the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood (which was supported by Obama and the Dems).

    It seems that the TERRORISTS are coming back into Sinai or they never really left it.

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