Posted on 03/02/2015 6:14:07 AM PST by marshmallow
After jihadists seized the Tal Tamr area and at least ten Christian villages, they took 220 people hostage. Judged by an "Islamic court", 19 were released after paying US$ 1,700 per person. Assyrian and Islamic tribal leaders are negotiating the release of the other hostages.
Damascus (AsiaNews) - Islamic State (IS) terrorists on Sunday freed 19 of the 220 Assyrian Christians they took hostage in Tal Tamr (Syria) last week, after a US$ 1,700 ransom per person was paid for their release, activists said.
"Nineteen Assyrian hostages arrived on Sunday at the Church of Our Lady in Hasakah after they were released by IS," said Osama Edward, the director of the Assyrian Network for Human Rights.
"They arrived on two buses from Shaddadeh," the IS stronghold in the north-eastern province of Hasakah.
Edward said an IS "religious court" decided on Saturday to release the 19 Christians in exchange for a sum of money paid by each family. IS considers the ransom as "jizya".
The "jizya" is a poll tax, based on the Qur'an, that Muslims can impose on Jews and Christians living in Islamic lands for "protection". In return, they are not require to convert to Islam.
Negotiations for the release of the hostages began on Saturday between Assyrian officials and local Arab Muslim tribal chiefs. According to local sources, IS controls ten Christian villages.
Negotiators are trying to secure the release of 201 Assyrians still held captive. "We're trying to contact any party that might help. We're working through our friends the tribal sheikhs," said Younan Talia, a senior official in the Assyrian Democratic Organisation.
"Some friends of Daesh are trying to send messages," he added, but there have been no response yet. Daesh is the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group.
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Im of two minds on this.
one the hostages are free safe and healthy....a good thing
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the other is that a dangerous precedent has been established...the mohammedan madmen have been paid off.. setting a standard for future kidnappings,
Well, we KNEW that ISIS was a bunch of wh*res. Now we know their price.
*SPIT*
Would there be a time frame after release that these people would not be taken hostage again - how much time does $1700 buy?
$1700 sounds fairly low, given the ISIS budget. Perhaps the timeframe is 5 minutes. $1700 probably just covers the ISIS expense for the lawyers to write up the ransom agreement.
The precedent was set long ago. The same is true with slavery, treatment of women and a whole host of other anti-democratic western ways. When I write this, I am referring to main-stream Islam. There are even Sharia courts in Islamic enclaves in America. The acid test to this is really simple. Pick any Islamic nation and look at what they really do. A jizya may not be codified in national law, but it is mandated by Sharia courts at a local level.
Over this incident in Syria we have no control.
Our main mission remains keeping this sort of madness out of the U.S.
True, but 1700 per is a steal. Once returned, these people should be relocated to a Christian safe haven until this is over.
I get the sense that this ...is going to require some very serious intentional killing.
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