He was kidnapped in 2012. Islamic law allows for killing a hostage as one of four options: “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.
More on this story. “IS ‘Beheads US Journalist James Foley In Video,’” Sky News, August 19, 2014:
TweetMe PleaseIslamic State militants have released a video that purportedly shows the beheading of a US journalist who went missing two years ago.
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