“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).
“Revealed: Hostage was ‘sold’ to Islamic Jihad during Gaza captivity,” by Jenni Frazer, Jewish News, January 17, 2024 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
New details of what had happened to one of the Gaza hostages, Ada Sagi, emerged during an interview with her London-based son, Noam, at the St John’s Wood audience event on Monday evening. The 75-year-old Arabic and Hebrew teacher had been “sold” to another group, Islamic Jihad, and was kept in a civilian apartment belonging to a lawyer, before finally being released after 54 days in captivity.
After the screening of a short video about Kibbutz Nir Oz and the increasingly frantic text messages sent by the residents about the Hamas terrorists who had invaded the kibbutz, Noam Sagi, in conversation with journalist Sandy Rashty, spoke about his upbringing on Nir Oz, where he lived until he was 18.
“It’s a very small community, and a very tight family community,” he said. “What’s special about it is that it is a very green spot in the middle of the Negev. It was a space for prosperity, for freedom, happiness, for just being on your bicycle… the simplicity and beauty of our lives there, that’s what it was.”
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On the morning of 7 October, Noam Sagi was at home in London and received a message from his sister in Israel telling him on no account to try to call their mother. He had already received “loads” of messages from people who knew that he was from Nir Oz and that his mother lived there. “We just thought it was just another Code Red, but we were used to that. But the message from my sister said, no matter what, don’t call mum, for her own safety, don’t call her. That was alarming enough.”At 9.24 am Ada Sagi had spoken to her daughter and said she had seen men outside her house with kalashnikovs and RPG weapons. She had gone into the safe room — “and that was the last we heard. As the day unfolded we believed that she was in the safe room, and we hoped and prayed that she was alright.”
But at midday Noam Sagi saw on social media “a Hamas reporter on my mother’s front lawn. This was where my heart dropped… it was impossible that someone could remain unharmed in such a situation”….
Billy Corr says
Freelance kidnappers in Beirut used to grab and abduct unescorted Westerners and then offer them for sale to one Iran-allied terrorist group or another to add to their stable of hostages. That would make an interesting black comedy movie.
A more recent example – very far from the Levant – a Cambodian in Thailand was tricked into working as an ill-treated deckhand on a Thai squid trawler. Unobserved on a dark night, he swam ashore in Tanjung Malis in Sarawak, part of Malaysian Borneo, and was picked up by a Malaysian police patrol. The police officers then drove him to a palm oil plantation and sold him to the plantation boss as a useful addition to the labor force.
After a while he ran away and found sanctuary and very real help in an Iban evangelical church; he was eventually repatriated.