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).
“Christians Abducted from Bus in North-Central Nigeria,” Morning Star News, March 29, 2021:
JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Christians in Kaduna state, Nigeria suspect Muslim Fulani herdsmen were behind the kidnapping of eight Christians from a bus in the southern part of the state on Friday (March 26).
The members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) were traveling from the city of Kaduna to Kafanchan when their bus was intercepted on the Kachia-Kafanchan highway 63 kilometers (39 miles) southeast of the state capital, Kaduna city, according to reports.
“Please pray for my dad and other RCCG missionaries who were kidnapped by Fulani herdsmen on the evening of Friday, March 26,” church member Ifedun Richard told Morning Star News by text message on Saturday.
Eje Kenny Faraday, who said he was also traveling along the Kaduna-Kachia highway on Friday, posted a photo of the church members’ abandoned bus on Facebook that day and stated that they had just been kidnapped.
A spokesman for the RCCG in the city of Kaduna, pastor Olaitan Olubiyi, confirmed the kidnapping, saying the eight church members were on their way to Kafanchan for ministry outreach.
Tanko Makeri, a resident of the area where the kidnapping took place, told Morning Star News by text message that the church members were kidnapped at gunpoint along the Kaduna-Kachia highway between Doka and Makyali villages….
Nigeria led the world in number of kidnapped Christians last year with 990, according to Open Doors’ 2021 World Watch List report. In the 2021 list of the countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian, Nigeria broke into the top 10 for the first time, jumping to No. 9 from No. 12 the previous year.
Nigeria was the country with the most Christians killed for their faith last year (November 2019-October 2020), at 3,530, up from 1,350 in 2019, according to the WWL report. In overall violence, Nigeria was second only to Pakistan, and it trailed only China in the number of churches attacked or closed, 270, according to the list.
Numbering in the millions across Nigeria and the Sahel, predominantly Muslim Fulani comprise hundreds of clans of many different lineages who do not hold extremist views, but some Fulani do adhere to radical Islamist ideology, the United Kingdom’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom or Belief (APPG) noted in a recent report.
“They adopt a comparable strategy to Boko Haram and ISWAP [Islamic State West Africa Province] and demonstrate a clear intent to target Christians and potent symbols of Christian identity,” the APPG report states.
Christian leaders in Nigeria have said they believe herdsmen attacks on Christian communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt are inspired by their desire to forcefully take over Christians’ lands and impose Islam as desertification has made it difficult for them to sustain their herds….
Walter Sieruk says
Kidnapping is forbidden and strongly condemned in the Bible. Likewise, the Bible instructs and the most severe punishment for kidnappers , Exodus 21:16.
born saturday says
koranimals!!!!!
born saturday says
koranimals!!!
Michael Copeland says
Memo to the All Party Parliamentary Group…etc.:
That “radical Islamist ideology” is, in fact, identical with basic Islam.
born saturday says
this hell that is taking place in all countries there is muslims in the third world countries will expand to europe and storm europe to civil wars….
tim gallagher says
Reports like this make me think how these criminal Muslim vermin are exactly like their “perfect” man, Muhammad, the gangster and wayfaring bandit, was all those years ago. I doubt whether Muhammad actually existed, but the way he is portrayed, as a vicious, murderous bandit and also a degenerate pedophile, gives these present day scum a model of how they should behave. Islam is like a mafia mob that has continued on its violent, vicious criminal way for 1400 years. Its founder, Muhammad, was, by any civilised standards, a very evil grub and it gives all his followers, ever since, a disgustingly evil ideal of how human beings should behave. Islam has brought endless misery to humanity and absolutely nothing that is good. Or maybe there’s something good or noble in Islam that I definitely can’t see. It certainly suits evil minded people, that’s for sure. It’s a perfect fit for evil people.
James Lincoln says
tim gallagher says.
“I doubt whether Muhammad actually existed…”
I have my doubts too, tim – but it probably doesn’t even matter.
What matters is that devout muslims *believe* that mohammed (piss be upon him) existed – and was the perfect man…
tim gallagher says
I agree with you, James. Once any bunch of people set up such an evil, disgusting individual as Muhammad was said to be as their Ideal type of man, then all the evil that we find in islam is bound to follow on. I often think that the people who could put up a person like Muhammad as their ideal of what a man should be like must have been very evil people. I suppose the mentality of tough and vicious desert dwelling Arabs back in the 7th century would be those types of people. And the evil version of god called allah also appealed to those types of people. Maybe it is bit like the old, warlike gods that the Germanic tribes came up with. If most people were asked what their ideal type of person was, they would come up with a far more pleasant and noble person than Muhammad was. Islam is like some leftover from more vicious, totally uncivilised days, except there it is, still stinking up our modern world. It’s like something from a horror movie.
James Lincoln says
tim gallagher says,
“Islam is like some leftover from more vicious, totally uncivilised days, except there it is, still stinking up our modern world. It’s like something from a horror movie.”
tim, when you had mentioned a horror movie I immediately thought of “Invasion Of The Body Snatchers” (1956).
I have included the YouTube trailer, actor Kevin McCarthy would be analogous to, say, Robert Spencer – warning about the coming invasion (analogous to muslims / sharia).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNJB363yql8
tim gallagher says
Thanks, James, for the trailer from the movie. I’ve heard of that movie but never seen it. You’re right about how wise and awake people like Robert Spencer are the equivalent of the guy in the movie, who is trying to warn people. I think most of the people who comment here at Jihad Watch are also awake to islam and are also like the guy who is trying to wake the sleepwalkers up. It is a bit like those people in the Bible wandering around in the wilderness trying to get the message out to people. Or maybe like that Paul Revere character who, I think this is the case isn’t it, who was riding along and telling the Americans that the English were coming. As I often say, I truly believe almost everyone should have got the message about islam’s vile nature by now, but, alas, it hasn’t happened yet, except in countries like Hungary. On the movies, “The Exorcist” came to my mind as a parallel for satanic Islam.
gravenimage says
Tim, although Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a sci-fi b-movie, it is actually excellent. See it when you get a chance.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the tip, gravenimage. I will try to watch the Body Snatchers movie someday. Watching the trailer for the movie that James provided,and because I was born way back in 1950, (on April Fool’s Day, so I just turned 71 years old), it reminded me a bit of the black and white 1950s films that I would sometimes see at the suburban movie theatre I occasionally went to as a kid.
gravenimage says
Happy Birthday, Tim!
gravenimage says
Agreed, James and Tim.
You learn a lot about people by seeing who their heroes are–mythical or otherwise.
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Muslims stop bus on highway, kidnap eight Christians
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These horrors never end–and few outside of Nigeria are even much aware of this.
Ray Jarman says
Unfortunately, you are so correct and I doubt if it will change anytime soon. Look how the Boulder, Co. slaughter of Jews and other non-muslims has disappeared from the few press outlets that covered it in the first place.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Ray.
david morrison says
to James Lincoln ; The invasion of islam against civilisation has been planned 1400 years ago
as the moslims were writing the koran — and will continue until the world is thiers or until the world is ours , and the koran says this ! They have never been as free nor as civilised we have been these last 1400 years because they are brainwashed by the koran fromm birth ! They can’t be trusted !!! I don’t hat muslems , except them that follow the satanic koran !
OLD GUY says
Death always follows the islamic Quran, it is the teaching of the killing and murder of people you don’t agree with or envy. Until either the islamic ideology takes full control of the world or they are destroyed by the Christians and Jewish people of the earth this fight will continue.