{UAH} Canadian hostage 'beheaded' by armed Islamists in Philippines
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Attention Hannah Ogwapitti, Afuwa Kasule and Edward Muilinda:
Radical Islam on the march, but who are the victims? Is there any
contemporary christian or even denominational equivalent of this
monstrous barbarity? Mr Hall's severed head was found hanging in the
compounds of a catherral, as if to spite the helplessness and abject
impotence of the Christian God.
Telegraph News
Canadian hostage 'beheaded' by armed Islamists in Philippines as Isil
methods go global
A terrorist from the Abu Sayyaf group based in the southern
Philippines. They are believed to have beheaded a second Canadian
hostage. Credit: AFP / SITE
13 June 2016 • 5:58pm
Canada's prime minister voiced "deep sadness" on Monday after an armed
Islamist group murdered a second Canadian hostage in the Philippines.
Robert Hall, 50, is understood to have been beheaded by Abu Sayyaf, an
insurgent group fighting for a hardline Islamist state in the southern
Philippines. His fate demonstrates how the methods associated with
al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) have
spread to Islamist movements across the world.
Hall, who was from Calgary, was one of four hostages abducted from the
city of Davao on September 21 last year. The captives were taken to
the remote island of Jolo, an Abu Sayyaf stronghold.
Another Canadian in the group, John Ridsdel, 68, was murdered on April
25. The death of Hall leaves two survivors: Marites Flor, a Filipino,
and Kjartan Sekkingstad, a Norwegian.
Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, said: "It is with deep
sadness that I have reason to believe that a Canadian citizen, Robert
Hall, held hostage in the Philippines since September 21 2015 has been
killed by his captors."
Later, a Filipino police spokesman said that soldiers had found a
severed head on Jolo island. "Our troops thought it was a bomb but
found out it was a head," said Superintendent Junpikar Sitin,
according to the Associated Press news agency.
Abu Sayyaf had demanded ransoms for the captives. But Mr Trudeau
restated Canada's official policy of making no concessions to
terrorists. "The government of Canada will not and cannot pay ransoms
for hostages to terrorist groups, as doing so would endanger the lives
of more Canadians," he said.
"We are more committed than ever to working with the government of the
Philippines and international partners to pursue those responsible for
these heinous acts and bring them to justice, however long it takes."
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Radical Islam on the march, but who are the victims? Is there any
contemporary christian or even denominational equivalent of this
monstrous barbarity? Mr Hall's severed head was found hanging in the
compounds of a catherral, as if to spite the helplessness and abject
impotence of the Christian God.
Telegraph News
Canadian hostage 'beheaded' by armed Islamists in Philippines as Isil
methods go global
A terrorist from the Abu Sayyaf group based in the southern
Philippines. They are believed to have beheaded a second Canadian
hostage. Credit: AFP / SITE
13 June 2016 • 5:58pm
Canada's prime minister voiced "deep sadness" on Monday after an armed
Islamist group murdered a second Canadian hostage in the Philippines.
Robert Hall, 50, is understood to have been beheaded by Abu Sayyaf, an
insurgent group fighting for a hardline Islamist state in the southern
Philippines. His fate demonstrates how the methods associated with
al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) have
spread to Islamist movements across the world.
Hall, who was from Calgary, was one of four hostages abducted from the
city of Davao on September 21 last year. The captives were taken to
the remote island of Jolo, an Abu Sayyaf stronghold.
Another Canadian in the group, John Ridsdel, 68, was murdered on April
25. The death of Hall leaves two survivors: Marites Flor, a Filipino,
and Kjartan Sekkingstad, a Norwegian.
Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, said: "It is with deep
sadness that I have reason to believe that a Canadian citizen, Robert
Hall, held hostage in the Philippines since September 21 2015 has been
killed by his captors."
Later, a Filipino police spokesman said that soldiers had found a
severed head on Jolo island. "Our troops thought it was a bomb but
found out it was a head," said Superintendent Junpikar Sitin,
according to the Associated Press news agency.
Abu Sayyaf had demanded ransoms for the captives. But Mr Trudeau
restated Canada's official policy of making no concessions to
terrorists. "The government of Canada will not and cannot pay ransoms
for hostages to terrorist groups, as doing so would endanger the lives
of more Canadians," he said.
"We are more committed than ever to working with the government of the
Philippines and international partners to pursue those responsible for
these heinous acts and bring them to justice, however long it takes."
--
Disclaimer:Everyone posting to this Forum bears the sole responsibility for any legal consequences of his or her postings, and hence statements and facts must be presented responsibly. Your continued membership signifies that you agree to this disclaimer and pledge to abide by our Rules and Guidelines.To unsubscribe from this group, send email to: ugandans-at-heart+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com
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