This is not “extremism.” Abduction of Infidels is sanctioned in Islamic law and subject to particular rules: “As for the captives, the amir [ruler] 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 and manumission; the third, to ransom them in exchange for goods or prisoners; and fourth, to show favor to them and pardon them. Allah, may he be exalted, says, ‘When you encounter those [infidels] who deny [the Truth=Islam] then strike [their] necks’ (Qur’an sura 47, verse 4)” — Al-Mawardi, al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah (The Laws of Islamic Governance).
“Boko Haram Gives Government A Week Deadline To Free Pastor,” by Murtala Abdullahi, HumAngle, February 25, 2021:
The Abubakar Shekau led faction of the terror group Boko Haram has given an ultimatum for the release of Bulus Yakuru, a Christian cleric abducted on Christmas eve in Borno State, Northeastern Nigeria.
At least seven people were killed when Boko Haram insurgents attacked the village of Pemi in Borno State on Dec. 24 2020, during which the cleric was taken away.
Pemi is located approximately 20 kilometres from Chibok, where Boko Haram insurgents had abducted hundreds of schoolgirls.
The pastor has previously appeared in two Boko Haram videos days after the abduction in Dec. and early Jan. 2021, where he also pleaded for Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s intervention, Babagana Zulum, Governor of Borno State and church leaders to rescue him. The demands for his safe release have been communicated to the authorities.
In a new video, Pastor Yakuru identified himself and pleaded with Nigeria’s President, Borno State Governor and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), the umbrella body of Christians in the country, to intervene and secure his release.
In the video, the pastor was given a one-week ultimatum by his abductors, reinstated by a fighter holding a knife standing behind him. The deadline, according to the terrorists, ends next Wednesday….
Walter Sieruk says
There are many Muslims, be they members of a jihad terror murder group or not, who strongly dislike Christians. Some Muslims even hate Christians so much that they even become violent against them, some times even murderous violent . As seen in this above jihadwatch article .
One reason for this is that in the mosques and madrasas the Muslim clerics, as the imams who speak many awful and unproven terrible things against Christians and Christian doctrine.
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So much so the many Muslims get all worked up against Christians and Christian teachings and some those Muslims commit violent actions against Christians. Such false religious teachers, as those Muslim clerics, who speak to people unfounded and invalid evil things about Christians and Christian doctrines have been described in the Bible. For the Bible informs the reader in Second Peter 2:12. “They speak evil of things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption.” [N.K.J.V.]
It also should be make clear that in this specific above Bible verse, as well as in John 3:16. The word “Perish” does not mean loss of being but loss of well-being. As in going to ruin by ending up in languishing in torment in a terrible place of suffering that the Bible calls hell. Luke 16:19-31.
sidney penny says
“One reason for this is that in the mosques and madrasas the Muslim clerics, as the imams who speak many awful and unproven terrible things against Christians and Christian doctrine.
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So much so the many Muslims get all worked up against Christians and Christian teachings and some those Muslims commit violent actions against Christians”
Yes, worked up
That is why in many places after Friday “prayers” ( especially in Pakistan) the chants were ” Death to America”
Walter Sieruk says
Many Muslims of Pakistan are so ignorant that they happen to think that all Americans are Christians. So of course the jihad–minded Muslims of that nation would chant “Death to America.”
For example, a number of years ago I read a book written a Pakistani man who used to be a Muslim but is now a Christian and lives in a Western nation. He wrote that when he was a Muslim a lived in Pakistan he and his friends literally thought that “All Americans are Christians…”
Michael Copeland says
The abductors are interested in a ransom. This follows the example from last year. On Dec. 11, 2020 muslim Fulani herdsmen kidnapped students at the Government Secondary School, Kankara. The Katsina state government and the federal government paid a ransom for their release.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/02/nigeria-muslims-murder-church-elder-and-abduct-three-other-christians
Unfortunately they are also interested in killing kafirs.
James Lincoln says
Michael Copeland,
So they are interested in a ransom…
So a payoff overrides their totalitarian religious-political ideology.
Or maybe it is just considered jizya…
mortimer says
Boko Haram is allied with ISIS and they follow the same, orthodox, Salafite Islamic playbook.
gravenimage says
Murdering Christians is Islamic in general, Mortimer–not just salafist.
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Muslim group threatens to murder abducted Christian cleric within a week
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Just horrifying–this *poor man*.
What is Boko Haram demanding? Likely something that cannot be done. But Jihadists love to make Infidels feel guilty for their own murders. A favorite ploy is to kidnap a victim and then demand more money than the entire village makes in a year as ransom–and then blame the victim’s loved ones when they are unable to raise the ransom.
God, I hate Islam.
JimJFox says
Who doesn’t? Those western brain dead idiots who support it; who I detest as much if not more than Islam itself
JSA says
Appeasement of Muslims does not work. The US paid almost 20% of its annual budget to Muslim pirates when Jefferson was president. Then he got a Quran to understand what Islam was about. Once Jefferson realized that appeasement would not work, he sent our Marines to kick ass. That was Barbary Wars. Our first big war and not taught in schools.
gravenimage says
JSA, I was *not* advocating appeasing these thugs–I just noted the common Islamic MO.
And I have the greatest respect for Jefferson standing up against these pirates. This is why we have a navy.
Susan Stavros says
There should be no tolerance towards these Muslims that think they are acting on gods behalf…this is a political ploy to get more money more land of what we have through their evil intent. They are doing the work of the devil their god who admits in their quaran that he is The Great Deceiver. Be afraid you dumb muslims, be very afraid of the name JESUS.
Anon says
Joe Biden is the only president in the free world who approves of this
gravenimage says
I doubt he actually approves of the abuse and murder of Christians–but unlike President Trump, he is not going to call Buhari on it.