During her kidnapping last year, a woman and four children were wounded when jihadists armed with AK-47 rifles opened fire during the attack.
Italian intelligence officials have now claimed that Silvia Romano has been forced to “convert to Islam and marry a Somalian man.” This is a phenomenon we often see in jihad-infested territories: infidel women are kidnapped, raped, and forced to convert to Islam and marry the their Muslim kidnapper.
“O Prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and those (slaves) whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has assigned to thee” (Quran 33:50)
“And all married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess.” (Quran 4:24)
“Kidnapped Italian Aid Worker Allegedly Forced to Convert to Islam,” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, October 2, 2019:
Italian intelligence officials have claimed that kidnapped aid worker Silvia Romano is alive and was forced to convert to Islam and marry a Somalian man.
The 23-year-old Italian national was kidnapped in Kenya in November of last year and taken prisoner in the village of Chakama, 50 miles from Nairobi.
Intelligence officials said she was then taken to territory in southern Somalia controlled by the radical Islamist organisation al-Shabab. Her captors then forced her to convert to Islam, Il Giornale reports.
The paper claims Italian intelligence heard about Romano’s situation through local sources, but added that there was no reliable information as to her whereabouts or her current status.
Intelligence officials had planned on executing a military intervention to rescue Romano. That option was ruled out in response to news that her captors have taken her to Somalia, which has far fewer reliable allies.
Instead, officials have sought to find the captors and negotiate a ransom for her release. So far, they have been unsuccessful.
The news comes less than a week after one of six Nigerian aid workers was killed after being kidnapped by jihadists in northeast Nigeria.
Charity group Action Against Hunger, which employed the six aid workers, commented: “Action Against Hunger condemns in the strongest terms this assassination and urgently calls for the release of the hostages.”
European women travelling to Africa have been targetted many times in the past by jihadist criminals…..
Christopher Watson says
Why do these young aid workers keep going to these dangerous areas? Why are they allowed to go? Young European aid workers have been helping Africans for 50 + years and what good has it done? We have spent billions helping the Africans yet very little has changed.
James Lincoln says
Christopher Watson,
You don’t even have to look past the Western Hemisphere.
Look at Haiti…
Millions and millions donated – with no perceivable lasting change.
James C. says
The question is: why no change ?
dhans says
Giving people food and medicine only prolongs and intensifies the crisis in those countries. Until African countries learn how to develop their own infrastructure, the aid workers are actually making the problem worse in the long run. More people surviving, and more environmental pressure on the land and more conflict over limited resources.
gravenimage says
It depends on the situation. If it is a specific crisis, such as a natural disaster, aid can be a good idea–just some help while people get back on their feet. If the problems are chronic, it can actually make things worse.
tgusa says
“We have spent billions helping the Africans yet very little has changed.”
To paraphrase The Rash. Some people did nothing.
Dizzy ringo says
The only change is the size of their leaders bank balances.
Mr. Cohen says
Mnay years ago, I heard that in the 1950s,
50,000 Jews in Yemen were forced to convert to Islam.
Nobody ever talks about this; it is treated as a non-event.
It has been forgetten completely, as if it never happened.
SAFI says
As so many other such episodes in the dark history of Islam that the world is entirely oblivious to. Even things that happened in the 20th century… I admit this is probably the first time I hear about this incident and yet it doesn’t surprise me at all.
gravenimage says
Mr. Cohen, I know that in 1950 almost 50,000 Yemeni Jews were rescued from Yemen by the Israelis in Operation Magic Carpet.
No Muzzies Here says
That’s a sex slave, not a wife. It should be called by its right name! This is not a marriage!
underbed cat says
Islam erases history as it forces conversion at the point of the sword and jihad never happens A tolerant image and propaganda works better as they arrive in an unsuspecting land. The scorpion lie,” don’t worry I am peaceful we are compatible”. The contrary warning is of course silenced. Sharia warnings of deception are being silenced.
Aid workers with mercy in their hearts have a high risk to be kidnapped, forced marriage keeps her alive but she is still kidnapped and her circumstances “may” be dreadful…instead of sending food and workers use drones to drop food.
European pagan says
Are there any countries in Africa where there are no muslims? In which african country is a european female person safe?
LytchZam says
Utah.
Jocelyn says
Why would she go there AND take her children???!!! I realize I’m saying this from a place of safety but I would recite the Nicene Creed and let them kill me.
WPM says
She was kidnapped along with four children .No where does it say that the four children were hers. They were most likely four African children native to. the village that are now being abused by these Islamic savages.
James C. says
Conversion under such pressure is worthless. All that it does is create insincere Muslims. Why do Muslims have no problem with that ?
gravenimage says
They don’t care. She will be terrified, and is she gives birth after being raped all the children are considered Muslims.
somehistory says
This happens in pakistan…women and children being forced to “convert.” All over Africa where moslims are free to roam about, weapons in the hand, women and children are forced to “convert.”
The Jewish boy in Australia forced by a gang of moslim thugs, forced to kiss the shoes of one or be beaten…possibly to death.
All of this, while moslims in the U.K., Germany, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Denmark, and even the United States are treated as “special” people who are not to be offended, including hearing the truth about themselves and their fake prophet, their false god and the evil that they live and believe.
Presidents, prime ministers, kings and other government officials all spout the “religion of peace,” and make all kinds of laws to protect islam and moslims from criticism.Judges and police officials make monumental efforts to keep from telling the truth about the violence, rape, murder and mayhem caused by moslims. Large amounts of money, taken from the poor and middle class of the various nations is handed over to moslims who invade and don’t wish to work, but rather harass and rape and murder the citizens of the countries that take them in. And excuses are made for their evil behavior.
and the pope of the Catholic church, and preachers of other denominations, all speak out on behalf of moslims and their “needs.” Even at the expense of their own adherents and congregations..
Revelation 13, written about 2.000 years ago, tells us the “wild beast,” the “false prophet,” and satan the devil, a.k.a. the great dragon, original serpent, built an image to the beast and are forcing the inhabitants of the Earth, to bow down to the image of the beast or face death by the sword.
Lydia Church says
No one can force anyone to convert to anything without their consent.
In the end, it is still your will that decides.
If you are a Christian and threatened with this…
if you refuse to renounce your faith,
you may lose a lot in this world,
you may even lose your life.
But you will keep your soul.
If you do renounce your faith,
you may keep your life,
and much in this world,
but you will lose your soul.
Not my idle words. This is what Jesus taught.
“For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” Mark 8; 36-37, Matthew 16; 26, Luke 9, 25
“If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in His Father’s glory with the holy angels.” Mark 8; 38
“Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father in heaven.”
Matthew 10; 32-33
“And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.” Luke 14; 27
“Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.” Matthew 16; 24
“For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.”
Matthew 16; 25
“And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.” Matthew 10; 38
And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.” Mark 8; 34
And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.” Luke 9; 23
All Christians are disciples. (Acts 11; 26, and for the Venn diagram, yes, it’s ‘if and only if’. A disciple is a Christian and a Christian is a disciple. On that note, a ‘Christ follower’ or ‘Jesus follower’ is a Christian, and vice versa.)
Lydia Church says
Basically, no one can force you to convert to anything against your will.
Jesus holds you accountable, and He would not do so if it were not up to you.
gravenimage says
Lydia, the Jihadists probably threatened to murder the children who were kidnapped with her.
Many convert not out of fear for themselves, but to protect others.
James says
There is probably some gene in women that causes them to sympathize with dangerous men or to persuade themselves that there is no evil, only need in the world. And of course the mothering, caring instinct, transposed from infants to people in foreign regions. I remember trying to tell one such person of the danger of illegal immigration, but she changed the subject and refused to listen. Thus the 2 girls murdered in Morocco, or the couple who were bicycling in a dangerous country. They believed that good will is reciprocated. If it is, it is often too late when regret occurs. And many perpetrators are resistant to reform by good deeds and examples. This does not surprise me.
gravenimage says
What leads you to believe that Silvia Romano sympathizes with her kidnappers?
Many men have converted to Islam under similar conditions, such as Fox journalist Steve Centanni and his camera man Olaf Wiig.
Angemon says
And yet, they keep going. Either they’re willingly ignoring the risks or they’re simply not being told of them.
Giacomo Latta says
The mainstream propagandists, sorry, media, insist that these sorts of events are not happening. And if you can’t have faith in what the MSM tells or does not tell you well …
gravenimage says
Kenya is almost 85% Christian, and may have seemed safe.
AP says
God helps those who help themselves.
Linde Barrera says
To AP- You are right. But God also helps the helpless.
Laura R says
God has done a piss poor job of helping Christians, hasn’t he?
somehistory says
God has never done a poor job of anything He has done.
His Word says, “Time and unforeseen occurrence befall us all.’
What is more, Jesus warned His disciples that the world hates them, and He warned His disciples that they world is a dangerous place. He advised His disciples to be “innocent as doves,” but “cautious as serpents.”
This young woman and others like her are not heeding the warnings and advice of Jesus Christ. And God never promised to protect people from every bad possibility that might “befall” them.
Just as nations have laws and punish people who refuse to obey those laws, God has made perfect Laws and will hold people accountable for not obeying those laws.
Peter WF says
It’s a risk she took. Natural selection takes its coarse.
gravenimage says
Muslim savagery is not “natural selection”. It is not as though she was eaten by a lion.
gravenimage says
Kenya: Kidnapped Italian aid worker forced to convert to Islam
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This is how Jihadists work. Hope she is able to escape.
somehistory says
https://thewashingtonstandard.com/christian-mom-loses-children-mother-stepfather-islamists-burn-down-home-with-family-inside/
“At this, then I realized that the Muslims were monitoring our movements,” Nakabale told Morning Star News.
Relatives first discovered the Christian faith of Nakabale and his family members in May, after he brought his young son to attend an evening worship service. The following day his son, Njabuga, told of his experience at the service to his mother, 32-year-old Sandra Nakamada. She became furious and began beating her son, Nakabale said.
“WE SAW FIRE EMANATING FROM THE HOUSE OF HAMIDAH WITH LOUD CHANTS FROM MUSLIMS SAYING, ‘ALLAH AKBAR [GOD IS GREATER],’” SAID THE NEIGHBOR ON CONDITION OF ANONYMITY. “ARRIVING AT THE SCENE OF THE INCIDENT, WE FOUND THAT THE HOUSE HAD BEEN RAZED DOWN, KILLING THE FOUR FAMILY MEMBERS.”
Article posted with permission from Pamela Geller
gravenimage says
Horrible, Somehistory.
jca reid says
Makes a mockery of the Koran: it states, “There will be no compulsion in Religion.” This verse is not abrogated. & our so-called “Leaders”, from Canada, through Western Europe Africa, & Australasia, STILL don’t get it!!