Jihadists in Nigeria continue to savage the Christian community. This is an ongoing genocide, perpetrated amid lies that the violence has nothing to do with Islam. Recently, Fulani jihadists (often referenced as “herdsmen”) “tried to kill Reverend Ishaku Katung of the Evangelical Church Winning All. On that night, they broke into the church premises and attacked the sleeping husband and wife. Rev. Katung was able to escape, but was shot. His wife, Esther Ishaku Katung, did not make it away, and was taken by the attackers.”
The jihadists then used Esther Ishaku Katung to get a ransom. Her family took two weeks to raise the ransom, and then “found her body in the bushes.” She was brutally murdered days before the ransom was paid out: 253,871 Nigerian naira, this is, 700 US dollars.
Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 484: “Allah said, ‘A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.’”
“Suspected Fulani Militants Kill Pastor’s Wife, but Still Take Ransom,” International Christian Concern, September 28, 2019:
09/28/2019 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – On September 14, suspected Fulani militants attacked the village of Bagoma in Kaduna State, Nigeria. During the attack, the militants tried to kill Rev. Ishaku Katung of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA). On that night, they broke into the church premises and attacked the sleeping husband and wife. Rev. Katung was able to escape, but was shot. His wife, Esther Ishaku Katung, did not make it away, and was taken by the attackers.
Over the next two weeks, the militants told the family that if they did not receive a ransom, that they would kill her. It took the family two weeks to raise nearly $700 to pay the ransom. After they paid it, they found her body in the bushes. She had been killed by her kidnappers days before receiving the ransom. This means that they killed her and still demanded the money.
“Information we got from some of the kidnapped victims who escaped from the herdsmen’s enclave shows that Esther Katung and two other victims had escaped from the herdsmen’s captivity, but she was recaptured by them,” Pastor Hayab told Morning Star News. “She attempted to escape with two others after they were kidnapped by the herdsmen; this infuriated the herdsmen, leading them to kill her. They broke her legs in order to prevent her from escaping and smashed her head too. This led to her death.”…..