[ April 27, 2024 ]
Such jihad horror stories were almost daily under the previous Democrat regime. Under President Trump, beheadings, Islamic sex slavery, etc. have been dramatically curtailed.
Swiss Missionary Executed, Fellow Hostages Freed
Beatrice Stockli was kidnapped by Islamist extremists in Timbuktu, Mali, in January 2016.
World Watch Monitor|October 16, 2020:A Swiss missionary Beatrice Stöckli—kidnapped from Timbuktu, Mali in January 2016—was killed only weeks before other hostages were freed by Islamist extremists, in an apparent prisoner-hostage swap negotiated by the new transitional government in Mali.
Story continues below advertisementNews of her execution came from Sophie Petronin, a 75-year-old French aid worker, freed on October 8, who had apparently been held by the same, or a linked Islamist militia group. (Petronin has converted to Islam and now calls herself Mariam).
The Swiss Foreign Ministry expressed its sorrow that Stöckli, a single woman in her late 40s, was “apparently killed by kidnappers of the Islamist terrorist organization Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslim (JNIM) about a month ago.” It said the exact circumstances of the killing are currently still unclear.
“It was with great sadness that I learned of the death of our fellow citizen,” said Swiss Federal Councilor Ignazio Cassis. “I condemn this cruel act and express my deepest sympathy to the relatives.”
The Swiss authorities said they “worked over the past four years, together with the relevant Malian authorities and with international partners, to ensure that the Swiss citizen was released and can return to her family. Members of the Federal Council have personally and repeatedly lobbied the relevant Malian authorities for her release. An interdepartmental task force under the leadership of the Foreign Affairs Ministry was deployed. The task force also included representatives of…[the police, the intelligence services]…and the Federal Prosecutor’s Office. In addition, the authorities were in constant contact with the victim’s family.”
Now, they say they will do all they can to find out details of exactly how she died, and to return her body, or her remains, to her family.
Who was Beatrice Stöckli?
A Malian church leader, who said he’d worked with Beatrice Stöckli, told World Watch Monitor in 2012 that the missionary settled in Timbuktu in 2000, working for a Swiss church, before starting work alone, unaffiliated with any church. According to Evangelical Focus, Stöckli first served with Germany-based missionary group Neues Leben Ghana, (New Life Ghana).
The church leader reported that Stöckli had led a quiet life in Abaradjou, a popular district of Timbuktu, but known to have been frequented by armed jihadist groups. She was described as sociable, particularly among women and children, and she used to sell flowers and hand out Christian material.
https://www.resourceumc.org/en/agencies/communications?utm_source=Christianity%20Today&utm_medium=web20banner&utm_campaign=2020_UMCOM&utm_term=Oct_December&utm_content=website%20trafficStöckli was taken from her home before dawn on January 8, 2016, by armed men in four pickup trucks, according to confidential sources.
This was the second time she’d been kidnapped from Timbuktu; the first time in 2012 was when northern Mali was occupied by armed Islamist groups. She was released 10 days later, following mediation led by neighboring Burkina Faso. At her mother and brother’s urging, she had returned to Switzerland in 2012, but she soon returned to Mali, saying, ”It’s Timbuktu or nothing”.
The Swiss government had apparently also warned her against return.
Stöckli appears in several videos appealing to her government
In late January 2016, a masked speaker with a British accent claimed responsibility for Stöckli’s kidnap on behalf of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM): “Beatrice Stöckli is a Swiss nun (sic) who declared war against Islam in her attempt to Christianise Muslims.”
The conditions of her release included setting free AQIM fighters jailed in Mali, and one of the group’s leaders detained at the International Criminal Court at The Hague. The most important condition, the speaker said, was that Stöckli did not return to any Muslim land preaching Christianity.
But Switzerland apparently demanded her release without conditions.
AQIM released a second similar video in mid-June 2016.
A year after her capture, in Jan 2017, AQIM released a third video of a woman—head covered by a black veil—who is identified asStöckli. It was allegedly recorded on New Year’s Eve 2017.
Speaking in French, with a weary, barely audible voice and her face blurred, she greeted her family and thanked the Swiss government “for all the efforts they have made”.
On July 1, 2017, a coalition of jihadist groups affiliated to Al-Qaeda released a video showing six foreign hostages, including three missionaries, hours before France’s President Macron’s visit to Mali, when France agreed to help support anti-terrorist efforts in the Sahel.
According to the US-based monitoring group SITE, the undated footage was posted by Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (also known as the Group to Support Islam and Muslims).
The jihadist network had formed in March 2017, when leaders of Ansar Dine, the Macina Liberation Front, Al-Mourabitoun and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) announced their commitment to form a common platform and pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda.
Stöckli was one of three missionaries shown; the other two were Colombian nun Gloria Argoti, in her sixties and an 80-something Australian, Ken Elliott. This video was the first proof of life for Argoti, who was kidnapped in Mali a year after Stöckli.
The other three in the July 2017 video were Stephen McGowan (since freed), a Romanian mining engineer, Iulian Ghergut, kidnapped in Burkina Faso in 2015, and Sophie Pétronin—proof that the French and Swiss women were held together, at least at that time.
Undeterred by a previous kidnappingArmed members of the militant Islamist group Ansar Dine handed over Stöckli to Swiss diplomats in April 24, 2012, after a private militia kidnapped her on April 15, 2012, Reuters reported.
Before Tuareg rebels and Islamist extremists had captured Timbuktu, on April 1, 2012, most Westerners had left for fear of being kidnapped and passed on to Al-Qaeda cells. But Stöckli had refused to leave.
AQIM has been holding Westerners for millions of dollars in ransom payments from kidnaps in recent years.
Ansar Dine militants took custody of Stöckli after a shoot-out with a private militia that had seized her and wanted to sell her to AQIM. Ansar Dine, which had imposed sharia in areas under its control in the north, then handed Stöckli to the Swiss government without demanding a ransom, according to Agence France-Presse.
The International Criminal Court said in April 2012 it might launch investigations into crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Mali, including killings, abductions, rapes, and conscription of children.
Christians, a minority in Mali, have paid a heavy price for the insecurity in the region. For most of 2012, armed Islamist groups ruled the north, banning the practice of other religions and desecrating and looting churches and other places of worship. Among those who fled were about 300 Christians, most of whom found shelter in Bamako in southern Mali where local churches worked together to care for them.
Mali is No. 29 on the 2020 World Watch List published by Open Doors International, which monitors the persecution of Christians globally.
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52 Comments
3 years ago
TRUMP NEEDS TO TWEET THIS OR RELEASE THIS TO HIS MAILING LIST VIA WHITE HOUSE NEWSLETTER
……….. MSM wants to keep this under wraps. Biden is leading by 15-points….. RIGHT??
3 years ago
The only religious (I use the term loosely) group that kills non-believers. Wow. You have to be really unhappy with life, or crazy, or just plain stupid to endorse Islam.
3 years ago
Reply to
Bill
The churches in America as in Europe are weak and little value. Between being infiltrated by Communists and basically in many case being just a social activity people have no interest. I left a church, in part, because, there were few people, who were interested in being armed with the truth to face Muslims. I was learning from two former Muslims and one Egyptian Christian, who studied Islamic law. Shahram Hadian, IQ al-Rassooli and Usama Dakdok. Here is where I have heard them. If you’re lucky there may be podcasts. It’s a great resource for Christians!
https://www.vcyamerica.org/
3 years ago
Reply to
Rusty
the church in “DUHMERICA” are “hosted by heirlings,completely infiltrated by the enemy the “clergy response team” numbers in the tens of thousands!!! American church effectiveness is a cartoon stopped g oing to hear the “messages” years ago as they refused to “Blow the Trumpet”. on anything deemed “political” example ;informing congregants about the dangers of being vaccinated which I tried. Churchs in “DUHMERICA” are being inundated with psychology, psychiatry,socialist,communist theology. they are a bad cartoon!!!
3 years ago
The non religion of hate at it again.
3 years ago
Reply to
Jameson
Try selling that crock of degenerate SH!TE to:
1. the families of the between 30,000 to 60,000 Nigerian Christians slaughtered by muslums this century
2. the hundreds of thousands of kafir being enslaved by f’ing muslums allah over Africa
3. the Hindus and Christians who suffer islamic persecution in Pakistain, India and Bangladesh
4. the Armenians being butchered by f’ing muslums right now.
5. the Christians being persecuted allah over Iraq
3 years ago
Reply to
WadeBaker
Being a marty is not something a selfish, self centered atheist would appreciate or understand.
3 years ago
Reply to
WadeBaker
Hear, hear. We particularly don’t blame an unarmed victim who had no means of defending herself.
3 years ago
Reply to
Jake
Islam is not a religion in the sense understood in the West, something that is freely chosen, a personal matter. Islam is an all-encompassing system of control and coercion, more like a totalitarian government, than a religion in the traditional sense. Christians are only to blame for not confronting Islam directly, such as in Afghanistan wasting 20 years there thinking Islam would change, or by allowing it in the West where it will destroy the freedoms of the West including the ability to freely worship the God of the Bible and share the message of Christ.
3 years ago
Reply to
Jake
Atheism is also a godless religion. As an atheist, all you have is the here and now for life. So you are a self centered and self absorbed narcissistic that views himself like a little god. Perhaps you are hen pecked too? You follow Ayn Rand around like a love sick puppy.
I have no doubt she is in heaven around wonderful people for eternity. When you die, you have nothing to look forward to in eternity. I pity you.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
You don’t think Communist atheists consider themselves to be rational and objective?
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
“…but if I use my mind and don’t find evidence or proof of God…” – an excellent statement!
If God could not or has not proven Himself to be who He claims to be, then He is not worthy to be believed. After all, Carl Segan once said, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof”, and he was right. If God simply wants people to accept Him, in and by faith alone, then He asks an unreasonable thing.
But God does not ask nor expects ‘belief without proof’. Without making any claims that would only spark your doubt and resistance, and seeing how you have searched for proof or evidence of God, I will only ask what you make of the prophecies recorded in scripture and the manner of their resolution. If these are not the proof or the evidence that you speak of and have searched for, then what are they?
Logically speaking:
If the prophecies are all true (and they are)…if the writers of those prophecies credit God with their inspiration (and they do, not one claims his own ‘talent’)…if God claims responsibility for those prophecies and further states that any failure of any one of them is grounds to not believe in Him – then, based on an infallible prophetic record and man’s inability to foretell future events with such accuracy to detail and time on an unbroken and consistent level, we can assume that all metaphysical attributes of those 1800+ prophecies, is believable.
Therefore, God is real and He has indeed given proof of His existence. It is also reasonable then that the additional claims and general, consistent message of the scriptures, that being that Jesus is the Christ and is the fulfillment of many prophecies concerning both His mission and nature, is also true and believable.
I hope to hear your response. I further hope that your position is still open minded enough to consider that which you have not likely considered to date.
3 years ago
Reply to
Jake
I thought the same thing about a S. Korean missionary and his eldest son who traveled to both Iran and Turkey (spit) to spread the gospel. Your first atheist thought is that they’re idiots, but the craven and cowardly often mistake bravery for stupidity.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Yes and this is exactly why you atheists will lose against the muslum vermin — and deserve to.
3 years ago
“Christians, a minority in Mali, have paid a heavy price for the insecurity in the region”
Martyrs always have.
For those of you in the USA, be prepared. You are already a minority and the insecurity is fast approaching – and already here in many locations.
Your trials and tribulations are coming. Like this wonderful woman, take strength in Christ, and from the martyr’s who precede you.
This is not news. It was promised.
3 years ago
Reply to
RobM1981
God of the Bible will not forgive the absurd Americans for allowing Islam within their borders where it will destroy what was once a place of freedom where the message of Christ could be freely shared. God does not honor those who bring persecution and suffering unto themselves by their own evil stupidity.
3 years ago
Reply to
Jameson
It’s not just about Islam. It’s about rebellion against God and His teachings. He would forgive them but most won’t repent and turn away from evil. That is required for forgiveness and to change their ways. Instead, they will dig their heels in more and harden their hearts against Him. They have plenty of company too. You see it here…. God will avenge the evil done to His own if we can’t have justice on this earth. We can take comfort in that.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
They can’t repent of Islam if they live in a land with many Muslims because the other Muslims, even family, would kill them, as the religion instructs them to do. Only the bravest leave Islam and accept Christ. America should remain free of Islam so that any ex-Muslim has a place to escape to for safety.
3 years ago
Reply to
RobM1981
It’s all part of prophecy and it is happening right before our eyes! It is beyond coincidence that a book over two thousand years old, could predict what we see happening and even naming countries that will play a major role. It’s all falling into place – even those that shake their fist at God and view themselves as gods. Unnatural sex and perversion are all part of it too! Oh, Joe Biden thinks it’s okay EIGHT YEAR OLDS to be trannies!
2Timothy 3: 1- 7
[1] This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
[2] For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
[3] Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
[4] Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
[5] Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
[6] For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
[7] Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
3 years ago
Reply to
RobM1981
Martyr=Stupid. I have NO sympathy OR empathy for these women. In fact, the one that converted is particularly nauseating to me. They had no business going there to start with.
Better lock and load so you can fire up as many as possible.
‘Cause ‘trials and tribulations’ have already made our acquaintance, are nothing new, and the only difference to be made will be made by us, not a mysterious and cruel nanny god that set it all up and is going to come and rescue those who have ‘faith’.
I despise your beliefs almost as much as I do islam. The only reason you are tolerated is that you don’t (usually) attack any individual that doesn’t believe exactly as you do. Just preach at us.
Now get to church, get down on your knees and beg (pray) for the second coming.
I think I’ll do something to get ready…just in case the big balloon goes up.
3 years ago
Reply to
RobM1981
If anyone wants to help African Christians, provide them with weapons and training. They are regularly slaughtered in churches totally unarmed.
3 years ago
Maybe we should envy her… she’s in heaven now for a job well done. I would hate to know what she had to endure….
(Petronin has converted to Islam and now calls herself Mariam).
How can anyone convert to such an evil religion, knowing what happened to this Christian missionary?
3 years ago
After the fourth instance of the false neologism “islamist” I stopped reading. I’d be willling to bet the corrupt ‘journalist’ of World Watch Monitor that wrote this piece that none of the muslums in JNIM call themselves islamists, because the word is a LIE.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Some people use it as shorthand for ‘true believer’ as opposed to most Muslims who just remain Muslim since they can’t leave, have no choice, and would be killed if they did.
3 years ago
Reply to
Jameson
OK, I’d buy that, what about the false neologism islamism though?
Why don’t the reluctant muslums leave their death cult behind when the immigrate to the dying atheist West?
If there are so many reluctant muslums then why does the entire muslum world consist of nothing but totalitarian, fascist, religious apartheid states?
Furthermore:
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Because there really isn’t no such thing as a moderate muslim. They are all parasitic feral animals!
3 years ago
Reply to
patd
‘All” is very inclusive and false. There are many converts and non-Islamic Muslims, even Christians and at least one well known Christian Pastor. That is why I always say , death to Islam, not death to Muslims.
3 years ago
Reply to
Don39
Converts are no longer muslums.
As for non-islamic muslims! Then why are they muslums at all? And in what way are they non-islamic?
You can’t fight an ideology. You can only fight the people who practice that ideology.
Without f’ing muslums, islum would be just another ugly footnote to history because the ideology of islum lives on in the minds of f’ing muslums.
It’s interesting how the only muslum apologists I ever meet are the cowards who live in the dying atheist West because the people I’ve met who have actually lived under muslum persecution (an Eritrean Christian, an Iraqi Christian, Coptic Christians, a Syrian Jew) don’t buy into the “moderate” muslum meme at all.
If you can’t identify your enemy you’ve lost.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
If you were half as smart as you think you are, you very likely could have a discussion without the f word in ever other sentence!
3 years ago
Reply to
Don39
Take your muslum apologia to:
1. the kafir slaves across Africa
2. the Armenians who are fighting the f’ing muslums right now
3. the legions of Hindus, Christians, atheists, Jains, Sikhs who are persecuted by f’ing muslums across the Indian sub-continent
4. Iraqi Christians
5. the fewer and fewer Syrian Christians and Jews
See how much they appreciate your supercilious, degenerate sanctimony.
3 years ago
Reply to
Don39
Make your next vacation a trip to one of the above enumerated muslum states and whine to the kafir there, see how much they appreciate it.
3 years ago
Reply to
Don39
Um what is a non-Islamic muslim? Is that like jumbo shrimp? Or a non-Nazi Nazi?
3 years ago
Reply to
Don39
Isn’t it the many converts that are reported attacking the infidels??? Seen too many news stories where converts were the criminals doing the attacking.
3 years ago
She had a death wish that was finally granted.
3 years ago
Reply to
cylde
Can’t say that, she was trying to serve the Lord, and it takes immense courage to do that in a land controlled by the Satanic Islam.
3 years ago
It’s too bad thatSophie Petronin drank the Islamic Kooj-Aid. It’s a kind of reverse Pandora box she has put herself in – once in never out alive. Just like a cult.
3 years ago
Death to Islam! It is no religion! It is a death cult!
3 years ago
Such big brave fighting men that feel threatened by a couple of European women,whereas showing that their islamic faith is better than the faith of these Christian women never seems to be an idea that comes to the minds of these brain dead zombie savage morons. All they know is kill kill kill slaughter slaughter slaughter, they are not deep in their own faith and so attack anybody that questions them on it… Cowards..
3 years ago
Reply to
Andrew Blackadder
You seem to have some confusion about Islam. With regard to Christian women sharing their faith with Muslims, they are merely following the example of Muhammad, which is considered perfect for all time for all Muslims, in robbing, raping and even killing them. Eliminating the confusion many in the West have about the true nature of Islam and Muhammad would greatly help the West survive as a civilization. Pretending that Islam is just another path to God, just a different style of Christianity with Muhammad instead of Jesus is not only wrong, it is actually evil. Woe unto those who call good evil and evil good.
3 years ago
Reply to
Jameson
I know a lot about islam amigo, I have read the quran, in fact I just threw mine into the garbage the other day as I was using it for a door stopper and it became really soaking wet, plus I have been in 6 islamic Nations, even lived in one, I had a muslim girlfriend once upon a time, I live in SE Asia, not an islamic country, I have had many conversations with muslim men about their Fascist Religious Cult and what I meant was that these Christian women were rather delusional about teaching such savages any kind of truth about Gawd as muslims can ONLY react through violence as that is the MAIN teachings within islam, revenge is a tenet within that Cult, they have zero free thought, they are brainwashed from birth. I wish these silly wee soy boys and “females” in the West would learn what they are defending when they stand at attention for islam, while muslims around the World laugh at them for doing so.
3 years ago
I always appreciate the fact that Pamela Geller, a Jewish woman, frequently reports on the persecution of Christians. Ms. Geller doesn’t want to see anyone persecuted. She is a lion for free speech. No wonder the Left hates her so much.
It will be my honor and privilege to thank these martyrs and glory in their well deserved reward with Christ.
3 years ago
Reply to
movingwaters
ALL non-Muslims should unite and stand against the universal threat of Islam. That includes all races, religions, sexual orientations, political ideologies, there is no group or belief system existent that Islam is not a direct and credible threat to. Sadly this does not happen much, even during the Crusades different groups of Christians would work against one another, sometimes one or the other siding with the Muslims to gain some advantage, in the end it works only to the advantage of the Muslims. Even seeing that all of the lands of the Bible, once Christian, were taken over by Islam, their history destroyed, the West is now welcoming the same destructive force into their own lands. Words cannot adequately describe the insanity of the civilizational suicide we are living through and witnessing in our lifetime.
3 years ago
“From the halls of Motazuma to the shores of Tripoli” To suppress these kidnappers and pirates we need to form a new Marine corp. A new Crusade. Unfortunately the traitors in America will not allow us to defend ourselves. We will have to depend on the MCP (Moslem Community Patrol) for our own security (slavery)
The present state of chaos and despair in America is the residue of the obama
A VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT IS A VOTE FOR ISLAM!
