“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).
“Gunmen in Nigeria kidnap four Catholic nuns on highway,” Reuters, August 22, 2022:
LAGOS, Aug 22 (Reuters) – Gunmen abducted four Catholic nuns on a highway in Nigeria’s oil-producing Imo state in the southeast, a local convent said on Monday, in the latest sign of widespread insecurity making road travel unsafe.
Armed gangs have been kidnapping people, including priests, for ransom from villages and on highways mainly in the northwest and the practice has spread to other parts of the country, increasing insecurity in Africa’s most populous nation.
Zita Ihedoro, secretary general of Sisters of Jesus, the Saviour Generalate, said the four were abducted while travelling from Rivers state to Imo for a thanksgiving mass on Sunday….
Michael Copeland says
It will not just be ransom that they will exact. Poor nuns.
somehistory says
Yes, the poor women. mozlums enjoy making people, especially women and little girls, suffer.
Wasn’t there the lady in Constantinople who, when mozlums were going to behead her, stuck her neck out and told them to go ahead?
mozlum beasts have been committing these atrocities for way too long now for people not to recognize them for who and what they are. “armed gangs,” and “gunmen”….mozlum snakes.
mortimer says
Hate speech is defined as discourse that attacks an individual or a specific group based on a legally protected attribute such as the target’s sexual orientation, gender, religion, disability, color, or country of origin.
– Hate speech is “public speech that expresses hatred towards or encourages stigmatization of a person or group based on something such as race, religion, etc.
-Overgeneralization is to draw a conclusion or make a statement about (something) that is more speculative than it is justifiable on the grounds of the available evidence
– Demonization: the act of regarding, treating, or describing a person or thing as entirely bad
– Demonization of identifiable groups aims to create an attitude of distrust in public opinion, which removes moral restrictions, intending to turn the ‘other’ into a morally inferior being, criminalizing his views, radicalizing the discussion, while distracting groups at the same time, and claiming that the ideas of the sender are correct and justifiable.
Hate speech is also:
• Drawing distinctions between one’s own identity group and those outside it
• Moral comparisons based on this distinction
• Devaluation or dehumanization or demonization of other groups contrasted with the superiority of one’s own
• The advocating of different standards of treatment based on identity group membership
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There should be no hate speech expressed in the Jihad Watch comments. Some people are, sadly, incorrigible bigots who resist all admonishment due to an overvalued ideation or idea fixe … people such as KKK members. The KKK was wrong to believe Christianity is compatible with bigoted hate speech, because Christianity says, ‘Love your neighbor’, rather than ‘slander your neighbor.’ Slandering Muslims through overgenerization and demonization is therefore unChristians
Robert Spencer disapproves of hate speech and has never indulged in it. No one will find an example of it in all of Robert Spencer’s voluminous writings.
somehistory says
pish tosh You are one sick puppy.
Infidel says
Mort honey, please fly off to your favorite vacation spot – Nuremburg! Sie werden Sie begrüßen
somehistory says
“mortimer” approves of women locking their little girls in the closet without water to frce them, to make them apologize for having said something to a “friend” of the mother.
However, “mortimer” disapproves of my calling out mozlum terrorists….terrorists who rob, kidnap, extort, rape and murder others in the name of their false religion and its evil book of demon filth because these scum have “wrong information,” and should be “loved as a neighbor”…
And he sits in judgment of *me* for telling the Truth against falsehoods, while he is pretending to be Christ with authority to “admonish” me and command and demand that I stop.
But, “mortimer” ignores the fact that Jesus said to care for the little children…if someone stumbles “one of these” they should rather have a “millstone tied around their neck and be thrown into the sea,” and He called those who would harm a child, “serpents and offspring of vipers and children of the devil.”
To “mortimer.” I will not stop telling the Truth. and, the one calling “hate speech” does so out of his own mind and heart and his determination may not align with others’ ideas of “hate speech.”
“mortimer” just doesn’t want people….little girls or others….to say what they think. and he believes he gets to decide.
Barbara says
Stating the facts is not hate speech. The facts of who did what, when and how is informing the truth.
john smith says
Somehistory I’ve no idea why he has chosen you to pick on, you’ve done your best by trying to ignore his comments. That didn’t work. I and several others have also tried telling him, but this didn’t work either. I’m honestly starting to think that he could have a few issues, so you might just have to put up with it. Sorry but that’s the way it appears to me.
somehistory says
Thank you very much, John. For your comment and your support. I have come to the same conclusion. He’s too …to realize that I’m not going to give in and that he is wrong.
The more often he claims that I am unChristian, the more often I’ll quote Christ.
I hope you and your family and your dogs are having a great day.
john smith says
Thank you Somehistory it’s been a lovely warm sunny day, so I taken the dogs into the woods were it’s a little cooler. I hope you and yours also have a great day
somehistory says
Thank you, Johm. Glad for you and the pups finding a cooler spot.
It’s a lot cooler today, my daughter has the day off, and i’m about to paint a picture of a dandelion for my granddaughter. She loves to pick and blow away the little seedlings.
mortimer says
The Koran doesn’t recognize monasticism as valid. What happens to the nuns will depend on the mullah who will decide what is most opportunistic for Islam. In some cases, a mullah will do what is good for public relations … not because it is ‘the decent thing’ to do, but because the mullahs don’t want the ‘image’ of Islam to be tarnished … just for now.
somehistory says
as a mulla, you should know about all that getting approval thingy.
mortimer says
These terrorists are practicing Islam ‘by the book’. The ‘book’ in question is SHARIA LAW which is the official, CODIFIED Islam, rather than personal opinion. Codified Sharia law is actually more authoritative than the hadiths and even the Koran. Sharia law, like the Koran, is finalized and may not be abrogated, since the top two dozen scholars of Islam agree on it. Sharia law is actually superior to the Koran.
No Muslim is permitted to criticize another Muslim who is applying Sharia law strictly.
That is what these terrorists are doing … practicing a STRICTER form of Sharia law. Nigerian Muslims will be very reluctant to criticize fellow Muslims doing EXACTLY what Allah has commanded.
To criticize them would be KUFR (blasphemous speech).