Muslim soldiers are killing their Christian comrades in arms—apparently because the latter, as “infidels,” are already the enemy. Most recently, in Nigeria, a Muslim colonel stole weapons from an armory and then blamed the 12 soldiers on duty for the theft. Six of those 12 soldiers—all Christians—were then executed. According to a lawyer acquainted with the case:
The [Nigerian] government of today detests Christianity… This administration is running on ethnic agenda against the Igbo [Christian] population…. This has never been a practice in the Army. Things got changed the moment this present administration [of Muhammadu Buhari] came to power. Things are happening before that didn’t happen. It’s not only about these six soldiers…. Even in the security forces, Christians are being targeted.
The Feb. 4 report elaborates:
Many Nigerians now believe the Army fights for Islam, not Nigeria… In the country’s predominately Christian south, people call it ‘Boko Haram’s Army.’ Muslims hold all the most important leadership positions. The Army’s lack of action to protect Christians comes directly from its leaders in government… When troops go into areas controlled by radical Islamists to defend Nigerian Christians, the government orders them to retreat. Then, Islamist rebels shoot them in the back.
The phenomenon of Muslim military men murdering their Christian counterparts—and getting away with it—is hardly limited to Nigeria. In 2018, for instance, Matthew Samir Habib, a 22-year-old Christian in Egypt’s military was killed simply for being Christian. He was the latest of about 10 Christian soldiers in Egypt to be killed in separate incidents over the years by Muslim soldiers on account of their faith.
In virtually all of these cases, a similar pattern follows: despite all the evidence otherwise (such as physical bruises all over the bodies of the slain), military officials insist that—due to some sudden and inexplicable bout of depression—all these Christians supposedly committed “suicide.” Meanwhile the dead Christian soldiers’ families and those closest to them insist their slain sons and brothers were happy and healthy, that they were observant Christians, and that there was evidence that they were being persecuted by their Muslim “brothers-in-arms” for their evident Christianity.
For example, in the aforementioned case of Matthew Habib, the murdered Christian was shot twice—and still authorities maintain it was suicide. (Click here for several more examples of military authorities offering bizarre reasons for the deaths, all rejected by the victims’ Christian families.)
Why these Christians are being killed is not difficult to comprehend. For many Muslims in Egypt, Nigeria, and elsewhere, war is synonymous with jihad—and it doesn’t do much for morale to have lowly infidels, who are themselves the prime targets of jihad, fighting alongside the practitioners of jihad.
These modern day killings shed further light on a more theoretical—or rather theological—point. One of the staples of the Islamic whitewashing industry is the claim that jizya—the extortion money subjugated Jews and Christians were/are required to pay (Koran 9:29)—actually “entitled them to Muslim protection from outside aggression and exempted them from military service,” to quote Georgetown University’s John Esposito.
By this widely held logic, Muslim invaders did not demand that the conquered non-Muslim populations ransom their lives with money—as virtually all Muslim jurists and historians explain it—but rather were kind enough to offer their infidel subjects “protection” and exemption from military service for a small fee.
However, and as the modern day killings of Christian soldiers makes clear, Christians and Jews were “exempt” from military service not because they paid jizya-tribute, but because, as conquered infidels, they themselves were the enemy and had to remain separate and subjugated—as Christian minorities in Muslim nations tend to till this day. (As one example, requests to open or renovate churches are always met with mass violence and upheavals, often enabled if not instigated by local Muslim authorities: as infidels, Christians are not allowed to build or renovate temples of worship that openly challenge the teachings of Muhammad.)
Apologists like Esposito twist the facts around in another important way: while payment of jizya did indeed purchase “protection” (of a sort) for the conquered infidels, that protection was not against an outside hostile force, but against inside hostile forces—that is, Muslims themselves: sharia manuals make clear that failure to pay jizya made the lives of dhimmis forfeit.
Finally, and as if all the above was not enough, that the Koran itself requires conquered non-Muslims “to give the jizya willingly while they are humbled” (9:29)—or else—puts to rest any claim that payment of jizya was a mere business transaction justifying exemption from military duty but rather a ritual show of Islamic dominance over infidels.
From here one may also begin to understand the roots of a related phenomenon: Muslim soldiers killing non-Muslim soldiers in the U.S. military, as a show of loyalty to Islam.
Nidal Hasan and Hassan Akhbar are on military death row in the US for the same reason.
Hi Evan. I live in South Africa… do you mind telling me a bit more about the facts of these two on death row, or referring me to news artciles which could give me a better understanding of what you are talking about, please. I am just curious…
In 2003, in Kuwait, Akhbar (a convert whose real name is something else) murdered a couple soldiers with grenades and a rifle.
In around 2010/2011, Hasan, a Major and a psychiatrist or something like that based at Fort Hood, Texas, shot up the base, killing 13 of his fellow soldiers rather than deploy to Afghanistan.
My goodness Evan, I remember especially the Fort Hood-shooting, but I am surprised that these cases are still dragging on… I would have thought that by now it would have been resolved. Just shows us – democratic justice takes a looong time. …and perhaps these cases are very complicated, especially in view of the fact that the Military mosrt probably does not stand unsympethetic towards the religious varieties in their ranks… I wonder.
Death sentences in the US take years and years to go through an appeals process. It takes even longer in military courts – the US military has not executed anyone since 1961, when a soldier was hanged for the rape of an Austrian girl. Military death warrants also require a presidential signature before the sentence can be carried out, so even if their appeals run out, it is highly unlikely that either Hasan or Akhbar will be executed anytime soon.
The religion of peace strikes again…
Hi David. Your comment really made me think once again about the “clash” of the two throughts in your comment – …because does it make Islam a non-peaceful religion, if the Muslims merely act according to their convictions and the prescripts therefor? I mean – is the non-Muslim concept of peace the only true definition and concept of peace? I wonder. What do you think?
Why would the U.S. tolerate this?
It was Obananas doing.
I like that!
Thanks Raymond. Truth is, we cannot let them in the country, though tragic for the true moderates looking for freedom, the hateful group always follows with trouble upon trouble to the point of parallel societies, which now Europeans are finally realizing and trying to put a stop to.
France, Austria, Denmark and more to follow I expect. Hope its not too late.
Hi Don. I wonder whether one could in actual fact really draw this distinction you are drawng here, between so called: “true moderates” and a “hateful group.”? I think those kind and friendly fellow countrymen, who are Muslims, are merely those whose fuses have not been lit yet, by the right “instigator.” The more I look at the “mind of the Muslim,” especially born Muslims, the more I stand confused, because my western concept of moderation just do not seem to fit. And by this comment I do not reject any Muslim as human being who is also entitled to his or her rightful place anywhere in the world – I am just wondering whether we do not make a mistake by drawing your distinction?
Hi Don: Just read an article by someone called Stephen Bernard entitled ‘Multiculturalism is Racism’ because trying to eradicate the national identity and the religious heritage of the host country.
Hi Mary, may I please have the link to this article – I reside in South Africa where this article’s contents is very relevant.
To Fanie: The link is too long. All you have to do is write Stephen Bernard ‘Why Multiculturalism Is Racism Disguised As Racial Tolerance’.
Fascinating – I do not get that articcl at all on the Google and even Chrome available in South Africa… I wonder whether it has been blocked for some reason… but the SA Government is not in a habit of blocking anything…
PS. Just to let you know I don’t particularly agree with everything the author says in this article but I agree with the the underlying idea that a parallel society which does not assimilate becomes the enemy within who is unable to
defend his country in times of need because of a higher calling like your two examples above.
PS to Fanie: Try Microsoft Edge. I find Google not always accommodating.
Thank you Mary, I am installing EDGE right away…
Spot on Mary! Thank you so much for referring me to EDGE… I found the article and will comment later… have a nice day…
Muslims in Nigeria have been murdering Nigerians for years, but it seems this became a hopeless situation during O’bola’s reign of error …
… Did O’bola’s State Dept bring aid and comfort – and stolen elections – to Nigeria to install Muhammadu Buhari as an anti-Christian force?
*** God bless everyone here, and watch over and protect Raymond and his family …
Thank you, Raymond, for writing this article! And for speaking the truth!
There was also when in the Armenian Genocide, the Turk Muslims killed all the Armenians who were serving in their army.
Christian countries’ armies be free of Muslims! Islam has no place in our Army, nor in prisons.
This is simply satanic.
You can never turn your back on these people.
To Dum Spiro Spero: Which people exactly are you talking about? The ones which we help who come into our countries kill our soldiers and prostitute our daughters? Please explain.
John Esposito’s language is highly misleading. “Exemption from military service” is not accurate. In many cultures and especially in Islamic cultures, it’s ‘get to carry weapons and go to war’ – not ‘have to’. We see the military as something some people have to do – as a tax. Or as an obligation. They see it as a great honor. Something men get to do. No one who thinks like this wants to share that honor with a sub-human. Mohammedans see all infidels as sub-human.