Robert Spencer

This
is the kind of math that the “Palestinians” have taught the world in
their prisoner exchanges with Israel. In any case, kidnapping infidels
and releasing them for ransom or killing them, as well as exchanging
them for Muslim prisoners 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.
“Islamist rebels in Syria claim kidnapping of 94 civilians,” from
Reuters, March 14
Sunni Islamist rebels in Syria have claimed
responsibility for kidnapping at least 94 women and children belonging
to President Bashar al-Assad’s minority Alawite sect, according to a
video published on Thursday.
The civilians were abducted in August from villages in rural Latakia,
the president’s coastal stronghold. The rebels said they were holding
the hostages to secure the release of opposition supporters from
government detention.
Thousands of people are thought to be imprisoned by both sides in the
increasingly sectarian civil war, which enters its fourth year this
month.
The video, obtained by Qatari-owned television station Al Jazeera,
said the rebels were ready to swap the civilians for 2,000 prisoners who
have been detained for more than a year.
It stipulated that most of the freed prisoners be from coastal areas
of the country and that half of them be women and children, Al Jazeera
said….
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