Posted on 08/15/2015 10:08:22 AM PDT by markomalley
Kidnapping infidels and releasing them for ransom or killing them, as well as enslaving them if that option is deemed most advantageous for the Muslims, is fully sanctioned in Islamic law: “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)” — Abu’l-Hasan al-Mawardi, al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah (The Laws of Islamic Governance), trans. by Dr. Asadullah Yate, (London), Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd., 1996, p. 192.
“ISIS post pictures of ‘Christian women kidnapped in Syria threatening that they will become sex slaves if ransom is not paid,'” by Jay Akbar, Mailonline, August 15, 2015 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Disturbing images which have appeared online could be of three Assyrian Christian women ISIS abducted in February.
In three ‘leaked’ images shared on social media, the women hold pieces of paper on which their names and a date – July 27, 2015 – are written.
It is feared this means they will be sold to ISIS fighters if their families or charities do not pay ransom for their release, although no figure appears on the signs they hold.
(Excerpt) Read more at jihadwatch.org ...
They won’t get a dime from team obama or any help. Christians are the enemy to team obama
Our government is meh on mussie atrocities but the government is all over a baker who won’t make a cake for a GAYSTAPO wedding.
They won’t get any help from Ted Cruz either.
Why do you say that?
Unfortunately, those women are already dead. At least we need to assume that. And then go kill all those bastards.
Agreed. The chance they are alive seems unlikely, in my opinion.
They are subhuman savages.
Cruz showed very little understanding of the plight of Christians in the Middle East at a meeting with a group of them. He offended them with a claim that “Israel is the best friend Christians have in the Middle East.” The fact is that the Ba’athist regimes, both that overthrown in Iraq by US invasion and that now under siege in Syria with the US, IS and Turkey all hostile to its continuation, thuggish though those regimes were and are, have been the most supportive of Christians’ continued existence in the Middle East.
This misstep on Cruz’s part is the main reason I’m only generally supportive of Cruz’s candidacy, rather than all-in for it like a lot of FReepers.
Ted Cruz appeared at a conference about saving Middle Eastern Christians last year and basically insulted them and told them to jump off a bridge over differences of opinion about Israel.
It was a calculated stunt to kick people who are being genocided in the teeth in order to suck up to a handful of billionaire donors who also happen to be amnesty and open borders fanatics.
Really? Do you have a link that I can look at?
You might want to read this one:
“New York cellphone executive gives $250k to Ted Cruz super PAC
The Dallas Morning News’ Trail Blazers Blog ^ | August 17, 2015 | Sylvan Lane
Posted on 08/17/2015 3:50:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ben Nash, chief executive of PCS Wireless, is the man behind a mystery $250,000 donation to a super PAC supporting Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign, according to the New York Times.
Nash donated $250,000 to Stand for Principle PAC in January through “V3 231 LLC,” a company registered in New York. Nash donated to Cruz because “he has been a strong supporter of Jewish issues,” company spokesman Robert Barletta told the Times.
Nash, a former student of Jewish religious texts at Yeshiva, co-founded PCS Wireless in 2001 as a teenager.The company became a major global distributor of new and used phones and mobile devices, according to the Times.
Cruz has called the Iran nuclear agreement an existential threat to Israel and has promised to move the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem if he’s elected president. He’s also been honored by politically conservative Jewish advocacy groups....”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3325839/posts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2ZVihACwQ0
Cruz barely mentioned the issue at hand during the time he was speaking and keeps trying to goad the audience. He just kept throwing out platitudes designed to belittle what is happening to Christians in the Middle East by bringing other things up. This is an intentional form of disrespect. He would never address another audience like this. As soon as anyone made the slightest negative noise towards his off topic bait, he launched into a insult laced harangue of the audience instead of ignoring it like a speaker who was sincere about the issue would have. It’s undeniable that he was trying to provoke the audience. Had they listened without any jeers longer, he simply would have continued to drone on off topic and escalate the provocations until he got the reaction he was looking for.
Note at 3:30, the audience cheered his pro-Jewish statements, but then he just went back to off topic provoking. Now it’s over four minutes into the speech and Cruz has barely mentioned Christian persecution. Most of the speech has been a series of disconnected provocations designed to anger the mostly non-American audience by telling them that their persecution is not important in and of itself. In between provocations, Cruz takes abnormally long pauses and glares angrily at the audience, hoping for heckling. That’s when the audible shouts of “talk about Christians” start and Cruz storms off.
Over and over, Cruz used leftist language about Christians “consumed with hate” because they have different view point of Middle Eastern politics than he does. Then he tries to play the victim and pretend he is genuinely offended that a few people heckled his nonsense. He leaves by telling Christians who are being genocided by Muslim terrorists that he won’t stand with them because he thinks that they do not have the same views on Israel as he does. Really over the top behavior from Cruz that calls into question his character. Do people being slaughtered need to be interrogated for politically incorrect thoughts before you help them?
Note that no one in the audience said a damn thing bad about Israel or Jews, they just booed when Cruz over and over told them they are “haters” for no reason.
He also made some utterly false statements — that Syria’s government is trying to “destroy” religious minorities — Syria’s government is largely a coalition of religious minorities and secular people trying to defend themselves from genocide by al-Qaeda types. That there is no difference between ISIS and Hezbollah — except for he fact that one kills Christians and the other defends them, that’s a pretty darned important difference if you are a Christian in Syria. And yes, that Israel has been the “best friend” of Christians in the Middle East. Israel treats Christians pretty well, but not as well as secular Arab nationalists governments did, under which Christians were granted genuine equality that they can never really have in a state with an official non-Christian religious identity(nothing wrong with Israel being a Jewish state, but it’s not a state where all religions are equal). All of these statements are ludicrous to anyone who knows about the current conflicts and history of the region.
This video is also a good illustration of why Cruz rubs a lot of people the wrong way. He can come across as very unctuous and arrogant. It’s too bad because Cruz is so good on most issues and understands the need to play political hardball and how to do it.
This stunt permanently cost Cruz any support from Americans who are Eastern Christians. It was also received very negatively by young Evangelicals, for whom persecution of Christians is a big cause. Many people who are from Eastern European ethnic backgrounds will also see what Cruz did here as indicative of him probably not liking them much either, since they may have relatives who are Eastern Christians even if they themselves are Protestant or Catholic.
But it helped him get money from pro-open borders neoconservative billionaires like Sheldon Adelson and Paul Singer, which is why he did it.
Hezbollah defends Christians?
I need some context. Who is he talking to, who is applauding, who is booing? It seems like a fairly innocuous speech, except for someone who sympathizes with radical islam.
You’re clearing trolling me here. I explained in detail what happened and the context. Look it up yourself. There were a thousand articles about the incident after it happened.
Yes, in Syria they have been fighting against Sunni terrorists who are persecuting Christians. After Hezbollah drove al-Qaeda and its allies out of towns like Qusayr, Maloula and Yabroud, Christians were able to return.
Christians in Syria and Lebanon and in a defacto alliance with Hezbollah and other Shiites against Sunni jihadist groups.
Don’t flatter yourself.
OK, given what information you have imparted (or not), it looks like an aberration. I’ll file it away in case anything else like that comes up again.
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