“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).
“’Assault on religious freedom’: Nigeria’s Christian Leaders on Latest Attack on Worshipers,” by Magdalene Kahiu, ACI Africa, July 7, 2023:
The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has condemned the Saturday, July 1 attack on worshipers at the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) in the country’s Ogun State.
Gunmen attacked the RCCG during a vigil on the night of July 1, reportedly killing the Pastor and abducting seven worshippers, who were later rescued.
“The attack on worshippers at the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Abule-Ori, Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, is an assault on religious freedom in Nigeria,” CAN President, Archbishop Daniel Okoh, says in a Wednesday, July 5 statement.
The official of the entity that includes representatives of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) says they are mourning “the loss of the Pastor and condemn the kidnapping of worshippers who were simply exercising their religious freedom to worship.”
Archbishop Okoh commends security agencies for “their swift response to the incident and call for intensified efforts to apprehend all the perpetrators.”
Ogun State Police Command and the Social Orientation and Safety Corps (So-Safe Corps) rescued the kidnapped worshippers on Sunday, July 2 in an operation that reportedly saw one of the kidnappers killed.
In the July 5 statement, CAN President calls upon security agencies in Africa’s most populous nation to increase vigilance on places of worship and provide worshippers with security during religious gatherings….
somehistory says
Yes, and the woman in charge of such things says that ‘churches and mosques should not have vigils’ unless they inform the security so the police can be present and protect them.
What, pray-tell, do the mozlums have to fear during their ‘vigils’ so that they require ‘protection’?
mozlums are the perps….kidnapping, burning, murdering…and they will keep on as long as there are people to murder, kidnap and have property to burn and things to loot.
Walter Sieruk says
One afternoon a Muslim doctor told me that “we” meaning we Muslims “believe in the Ten Commandments” That doctor was being disingenuous or those Muslims of that jihad groups don’t know or care that number six ofthe Ten Commandments is “You must not murder.” Exodus 20:13. [N.K.J.V.] for they murdered that Christian pastor.
Likewise , those same abducted seven Christians. Kidnapping is strongly forbidden in the Mosaic law of the Bible, with severe punishment for those who do it, Exodus 21:.16 .
All Muslim do claim that they do “respect the Bible” but many of them disprove that claim by their actions that are in clear contrast to the teachings of the Bible.
Ray Jarman says
Did these Christians burn the book of the un-holy mass murdering pedophile? Probably not as they were searching for the truth of the Father and His Son as the Son preached that we should love our enemies. Having lived in Nigeria for almost four years, I learned that these church goers are extremely kind and gentle and the government needs to do much more to secure their safety.
OLD GUY says
Now if this were jews or christians who destroyed a mosque and killed its leader and abducted islamic followers there would be riots and the burning of churches and slaughter of jews and christians around the world. But what the heck it was just islam doing its natural thing, so back page news. Burning the Quran gets more news coverage than muslims burning a church or killing Christians.
Maybe it is getting time to quit turning the other cheek and to start to defend ourselves and drive islam out of our countries.