From The Religion Of Peace

Islamic State says its murder of 11 Christians is a “message to the Christians in the world”

DEC 30, 2019 3:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER38 COMMENTS

Many Christians will get the message, and assume that in order to end put a stop to this sort of thing, they need to proclaim that Islam is a religion of peace and redouble their pursuit of “dialogue” with Muslims. And the whole cycle will start over again. Everyone will feel good until the next jihad massacre of Christians, after which…Christians will proclaim that Islam is a religion of peace and redouble their pursuit of “dialogue” with Muslims.

“ISIS executes 11 Christians in Nigeria: ‘Message to Christians in the world,’” by Melissa Barnhart, Christian Post, December 28, 2019:

An Islamic State terrorist faction in West Africa claims it killed 11 Christian aid workers in Nigeria in retaliation for the killings of IS leader Bakr al-Baghdadi and his spokesman in two separate U.S. military operations earlier this year.

The terrorist group known as the Islamic State in West Africa Province released a 56-second video published by the IS propaganda media arm Amaq that shows the shooting of one man followed by the beheading of 10 others.

Jihadists wearing black masks and beige uniforms lined up behind the hostages — who were all blindfolded — as they carried out the executions, according to those who’ve watched the video.

“This message is to the Christians in the world,” a man speaking over the video footage says in both Arabic and Hausa, a Nigerian language, said the Washington-based SITE Intelligence Group, according to The New York Times which also reviewed the video. “Those who you see in front of us are Christians, and we will shed their blood as revenge for the two dignified sheikhs, the caliph of the Muslims, and the spokesman for the Islamic State, Sheikh Abu al-Hassan al-Muhajir, may Allah accept them.”

The terrorist group’s attack on Christians the day after Christmas was strategically planned, terrorism analysts told the BBC.

While the location of the execution hasn’t been made public, Reuters reports that an earlier video indicated that ISWAP jihadists took the men hostage in “Maiduguri and Damaturu in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno, where militants have been fighting for years to set up a separate Islamist state.”

“In that video, the captives pleaded for the Christian Association of Nigeria and President Muhammadu Buhari to save them,” Reuters added.

Buhari condemned the terrorist group and their killings in a statement and series of posts on Twitter.

“We should, under no circumstance, let the terrorists divide us by turning Christians against Muslims because these barbaric killers don’t represent Islam and millions of other law-abiding Muslims around the world,” he said in a statement….