By Lisa Daftari, FoxNews.com.
Islamic State militants are demanding up to $30 million in ransom to release the hundreds of Christian hostages in Syria, according to an officer within the Assyrian leadership.
In ongoing negotiations between ISIS terrorists and the Assyrian leadership to free the 250-300 Christians abducted by the militant group in February, ISIS is demanding $100,000 per individual, according to the source.
Third-party Syrian Sunni Muslims from the local area are reported to be brokering the talks between the two groups.
“They know we cannot come up with this kind of money, so they are hoping other groups and countries will come up with the money,” the official said.
A total of 23 hostages have been released to date, while the rest remain in ISIS custody after a Feb. 23 attack on villages in the northern province of al Hasakah.
The Feb. 23 attack was a coordinated raid on 35 Assyrian villages in the Hasaka province, an area where the native Christian community thrived for generations.
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I wonder if conservative PCUSA churches are running up $30 mil in expenses suing the PCUSA over keeping their property when we have a better use for it here.
A “better use” meaning, “give it to the terrorists, to fund their organization, so they can better afford to go out and perform the same extortionary practices on a larger scale”? Do you understand what the word jizya means to non-Muslims living under the oppression of the Islamic State?