Posted on 10/04/2014 9:38:58 AM PDT by Rusty0604
Peter Kassig, the latest hostage to be threatened with murder by Islamist extremists, is an American veteran who served in Iraq and whose decision to convert to Islam in captivity has so far failed to save his life.
His parents, Ed and Paula Kassig, remained silent for the past year in the hope their son's life would be spared but issued a statement after the video was released.
They said their son had become a Muslim during his time in captivity, changing his name to Abdul-Rahman Kassig, and that they had learned from other hostages that his faith had brought him comfort.
"He grew to love and admire the Syrian people and felt at home there," said Ed Kassig. "Our son's journey culminated in him embracing Islam. Sadly he was taken captive and is not free to continue his life's work serving the people of the region."
Mrs Kassig added: "We are so very proud of you and the work you have done to bring humanitarian arid to the Syrian people.
"Our hearts ache for you to be granted your freedom so that we can hug you again and then set you free to continue the life you have chosen, the life of service to those in gravest."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I feel sorry for them. I can’t imagine knowing that my child was going to be beheaded.
They are breaking their own rules if the slay him—Now a fellow Muslim. This will earn them no place in Paradise but an eternity in the place of punishment-—Fecid Dung for food, no water, hot sun and burning lakes. The Allah they clame to serve will not forgive them for breaking the edicts of the Koran. This feat will seal their doom in the eyes of the Islamic world as well as the West.
“I saw the parents pleading on FOX this am and I wanted to ask; What was up with the mother’s choice of clothing?”
Trying to save her son’s life, perhaps?
Yeah that!
Hah i have no pity for that idiot , a muslim convert is worse then a person born muslim
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