Philippines - Two Jehovah's Witnesses hostages decapitated by Abu Sayyaf

AFP via Babelfish translation ^ | August 21, 2002

[HAL9000]

An hostage decapitated in the south of the Philippines

Wednesday August 21, 2002 - 23h40 GMT

ZAMBOANGA (the Philippines), August 22 (AFP) - One of the six Christian hostages Filipinos removed by supposed islamists of the group Abu Sayaf in the south of the Philippines Wednesday was decapitated by its kidnappers, one learned military Thursday of source.

The head of the hostage was found Wednesday evening near the headquarters of the army, in the capital of the island of Jolo, one specified of the same source.

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A second hostage decapitated in the south of the Philippines

Thursday August 22, 2002 - 0h20 GMT

ZAMBOANGA (the Philippines), August 22 (AFP) - a second hostage among the six Christians Filipinos removed by supposed islamists of the group Abu Sayaf in the south of the Philippines Wednesday was decapitated by his kidnappers, one learned military Thursday of source.

The second head was found, packed in a plastic bag, close to the market of the capital of the island of Jolo, while the first head had been discovered near the headquarters of the army, according to the General Romeo Tolentino.

"Those which do not believe in Allah will undergo the same fate", said a note found close to one of the two heads, specified the Tolentino General.

Six Witnesses of Jéhovah, agents sales in beauty products, had been kidnapped Tuesday in the town of Patikul on the island of Jolo, one of the strongholds of Abu Sayyaf.

The removal was carried out by the men of the gang directed by a local head, Moin Sahiron, nephew of Radulan Sahiron, a veteran of the separatist wars in the Moslem south of the archipelago.

The group Abu Sayyaf, whose last taking of hostages goes back to last October, is specialized in the taking of hostages in order to obtain ransoms.

Jolo is one of the strongholds of Abu Sayyaf which had taken to last year three Americans as hostages. One was released in June and two died. The island was not the target of the American intervention which was completed at the end of July and concentrated on Basilan.

Three Indonésiens kidnapped in June are also held by other Moslem separatists reconverted into the banditism on Jolo.

[Jeff Chandler]

I as much as anyone on this forum can appreciate sick humor, so if I can refrain from joking about this horrific event, so can everyone else. This is a plea, not a demand, so please don't call me an @$$h0LE.

[Fred Mertz]

The Abu Sayyaf has often kidnapped for ransom but more frequently has abducted poor Filipinos, mostly Christians, to serve for weeks or months as slave labor.

These evil people just screwed up royally.

[TLBSHOW]

Islamic Terrorist Activities in Turkey in the 1990s

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The History of the “Islamic Movement” in Turkey.[11]

The Islamic subversive and terrorist activity in Turkey began in the 1960s. As early as 1967 and 1973 the leaders of Hizb ut-Tahrir (Islamic Liberation Party) were imprisoned for attempting “to bring the Islamic State Constitution to Turkey.”[12] Islamic Jihad appeared as a real terrorist threat in the 1980s, after a series of assassinations of Jordanian, Saudi and Iraqi diplomats. In October 1991 Islamic Jihad took responsibility for killing an American sergeant and wounding an Egyptian diplomat to protest the Middle East peace conference in Madrid.[13] For many years it was assumed that this group was a Lebanese Shiite terrorist organization, until it was discovered that a Turkish branch existed, engaging in assassinations of secular intellectuals.

[Fred Mertz]

Another comment like that and you'll be out of here.

[TLBSHOW]

http://www.ict.org.il/articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=102

[AdamSelene235]

ITS NOT A RELIGION

Looks like a religion to me. It just hasn't been domesticated and rendered toothless like the world's other major religions.

[TLBSHOW]

So all that is needed is a tall mountain and a good mind for fiction and you too can have a religion?

[meadsjn]

Islam is a serious, evil, horrible, cancerous mental disorder.

So is liberalism. However, liberals prefer to accomplish their slaughter through the actions of others, or through the spreading of plagues, destruction of economies, perversion of the justice system, etc., etc., rather than face-to-face.

[AdamSelene235]

What would you say qualifies a set of beliefs as a religion?

[BushMeister]

Unfortunately, I read yesterday that the secular government of Turkey may not last long. The fundamentalist Islamics are leading 19-11% in the polls over the current moderate government. If Turkey's secular gov't falls, it would be a severe blow to the war on terrorism and to the chances for muslim nations worldwide to become normal states.

[Terriergal]

I take issue with your statement about Klingons.

[Terriergal]

er... *HIS* statement about Klingons. Klingons are much more tolerant.

[Mark17]

Amazing... I take a few months off from the FR, and it appears these Islamic maniacs are still at it.

Yes they are, and I am heading to Mindanao soon myself. I am not going to Zamboanga, however, or Jolo, or Basilan, or Tawitawi.

[TLBSHOW]

truth

[Libertina]

Christians are the persecuted of the earth. On a related note, any FReepers who were outraged over the radio "prank" which used public airwaves to solicited participants for live sex in the St. Patrick's Catholic church, please email the FCC and tell them to REVOKE the broadcasting license of this station.FCC:
FCCinfo@fcc.gov

[sheik yerbouty]

Their heads are in their booties!

[andy_card]

Here is the deal, Islam is the enemy and Islam is who we are war with. Terrorist killers = ISLAM

Oh wise one, how would one go about defeating Islam? Exactly.

I think its past your bedtime. Let the grownups handle international relations.

[andy_card]

And what's your point? Britain also was in imminent danger. How can you blame Churchill for looking out for his own country's immediate self-interest, even if it meant screwing the Aussies and forcing them to align (forever as it turned out) with the United States instead. Countries act in their own self-interest, not in the interests of humanity at large, and certainly not to help a former penal colony half a world away when their own continued existance is on the line.

[AdamSelene235]

truth

Great. The radical muslims say the same thing.

[andy_card]

Yeah, seems like Turkey is the only "Islamic" country without the death-to-all-non-Islamic-faiths attitude.

How about Egypt? There were once a few of those crazies (Ayman al Zawahiri for example, and the goons who killed the German tourists), but those unlucky enough to stay in the country have met most unfortunate ends. The country as a whole is secular and advanced. While anti-Israel sentiment prevails, it is stricly from a pan-Arabist point of view, and not because of any Islamic fundie doctrine.

Bosnia, too, is a great example. The Muslims there are about as observant as your typical French "Catholic" is. The war there in the 1990s had nothing at all to do with religious teachings, and everything to do with ethnicity and power politics.