Iraq: Kidnappers Behead Priest In Mosul

[EdNigma]

They paid the kidnappers their money. They denounced the Pope as demanded. The 59 year old priest was STILL beheaded. Unarmed, bound, old man, brutally murdered, as he lay helpless.

I am looking for the video.

October 12 (Compass Direct News) – Iraqi kidnappers who abducted a Syrian Orthodox priest three days ago left his beheaded corpse in an outlying suburb of the northern city of Mosul last night. Father Boulos Iskander, 59, was snatched off a Mosul street on Monday afternoon (October 9) while searching for car parts at local mechanic shops. The Muslim kidnappers telephoned the priest’s oldest son soon afterwards, demanding $350,000 ransom from the family. After negotiations in several more calls, the kidnappers gradually reduced their demands to $40,000 but added another stipulation: that the priest’s church must publicly repudiate Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks about Islam in his lecture in Germany last month. The family managed to raise and pay the ransom, and the St. Ephram parish of the Syrian Orthodox Church placed 30 large signboards on walls around the city, distancing itself from the pontiff’s comments. But then the telephone calls stopped. Fr. Iskander’s dismembered body was discovered last night (October 11) at about 7 p.m. in the remote Tahrir City district, two kilometers (1.2 miles) from the center of Mosul. His arms and legs had been severed and arranged around his head, which rested on his chest. His remains were brought to a local hospital, which then notified his church. News of the priest’s murder reached Damascus as Patriarch Zakka Iwaz was meeting with bishops of the Holy Synod of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch. The Bishop of Mosul Saliba Chamoun returned immediately from Damascus to Mosul in time to conduct the funeral service this afternoon. He announced during the service that he had been commissioned by Patriarch Iwaz to bestow on the martyred priest an honorary title of “archimandrite,” a cleric just below the rank of bishop. A Syrian Orthodox clergyman present at Fr. Iskander’s funeral service today told Compass that at least 500 members of the Mosul Christian community attended, many of them weeping profusely. “Many more wanted to come to the funeral,” he said, “but they were afraid. We are in very bad circumstances now.” Fr. Iskander is survived by his wife, Azhar, sons Fadi and Yohanna, a married daughter, Fadiyeh, and a daughter, Mariam, 13. “It is a very sad and difficult day for us,” Bishop Chamoun told Compass. “Father Boutros was very active. And he loved very much his mission in the church.” Yesterday Iraqi church sources also reported that a Christian layman from Baghdad, Dr. Joseph Fridon Petros, 55, was ambushed and killed while traveling home from Diala to the capital. Ramadan Atrocities The deadly targeting of Iraqi’s Christians has shot up since the beginning of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting now into its third week.

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I read in an islamic site that Ramadan was a time of peace, inner reflection, and 'getting right with allah'. Some say tomato, some say tomaaaato.

[Snowden]

Originally Posted by EdNigma

They paid the kidnappers their money. They denounced the Pope as demanded. The 59 year old priest was STILL beheaded. Unarmed, bound, old man, brutally murdered, as he lay helpless.

I am looking for the video.




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I read in an islamic site that Ramadan was a time of peace, inner reflection, and 'getting right with allah'. Some say tomato, some say tomaaaato.

No video of this on this site, Ed.

Nothing these monsters do would surprise me. They are less than human, but do not put the URL for that video on this site.

Someone put one on some time ago of them impaling a man, and Hannibal removed it instantly. Some things are just too much.

Thanks for understanding, and thanks for the story. I have tried to send this message to you in a PM, but it seems that tonight I cannot send new PM's. I couldn't send it to Katie either, although I had PM'd her just a short time ago.

[EdNigma]

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know better than to do that. geeze, I am dense at times, but never been called stupid.

I've seen every video/picture the net offers. From Pearl, to the latest Iraqi Policemen. They fuel my personal rage, but I'd never put it in public. Just reminds me of the 'ideology' that wants everything I hold dear to be destroyed.

I've got no new PM alerts. And the email's letting me know of new posts in subscribed threads is not working either. No frets, I am sure boss is on it.

No video of this on this site, Ed.

[Snowden]

Originally Posted by EdNigma

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know better than to do that. geeze, I am dense at times, but never been called stupid.

I've seen every video/picture the net offers. From Pearl, to the latest Iraqi Policemen. They fuel my personal rage, but I'd never put it in public. Just reminds me of the 'ideology' that wants everything I hold dear to be destroyed.

I've got no new PM alerts. And the email's letting me know of new posts in subscribed threads is not working either. No frets, I am sure boss is on it.

Thanks, Ed. I couldn't tell from your post.

And those butchers garnered $40,000 and beheaded the man anyway. I had to delete my next comment. but you know what it was, I'm sure. I don't envy them facing the throne - but this man is a martyr. Don't they realize we have martyrs too? And that their blood inflames us? They are cowards; to kill an unarmed man, beheading him as they have done with so many, is a sign of cowardice that screams to heaven as to the lack of character, sanity and reason they possess.

It makes me sick. Their god is not our God. It is a god of death.

[Chrisj]

Originally Posted by EdNigma

Unarmed, bound, old man, brutally murdered, as he lay helpless.

Says it all really, the cowards way to fight a war.

Now if only the Muslims who have been so outraged by record shops called Mecca, Danish cartoons, the wearing of the veil and 1000 years old quotes made by the Pope would get outraged by this type of action maybe this world would get a little better. Sadly they don't want a better world unless its totally Muslim.

[EdNigma]

I held my breath, but I turned red in the neck, white in the legs, and blue in the face.

The West turned the other cheek, 1500 times on 9-11. Even Jesus had a breaking point.

Now if only the Muslims who have been so outraged by record shops called Mecca, Danish cartoons, the wearing of the veil and 1000 years old quotes made by the Pope would get outraged by this type of action maybe this world would get a little better.

[Snowden]

Originally Posted by Chrisj

Says it all really, the cowards way to fight a war.

Now if only the Muslims who have been so outraged by record shops called Mecca, Danish cartoons, the wearing of the veil and 1000 years old quotes made by the Pope would get outraged by this type of action maybe this world would get a little better. Sadly they don't want a better world unless its totally Muslim.

Well, they intend the world to become Islamic, yes; but it will be hell on earth. The word "Islam" means "submission," and that is what it's all about in the long run. All the world is to submit to Islam.

Originally Posted by EdNigma

I held my breath, but I turned red in the neck, white in the legs, and blue in the face.

The West turned the other cheek, 1500 times on 9-11. Even Jesus had a breaking point.

Jesus didn't break. The rest of it - yes, we turned the other cheek, and they spit on it. And kicked us and beheaded those of us they could get their hands on.

And the world hits the snooze button for another five or ten minutes of sleep.