link: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060827/D8JOPCEO0.html
(AP)--"I want to thank everybody. I am happy to be here. I hope that this never scares a single journalist away from coming to Gaza to cover the story because the Palestinian people are very beautiful and kind hearted," Centanni told reporters.
"The world needs to know more about them. Don't be discouraged." Wiig also said he was worried that the kidnapping would scare off reporters. "My biggest concern really is that as a result of what happened to us foreign journalists will be discouraged from coming to tell the story and that would be a great tragedy for the people of Palestine," Wiig said. "You guys need us on the streets, and you need people to be aware of the story."
"We were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint," Centanni later told Fox. "Don't get me wrong here. I have the highest respect for Islam, and I learned a lot of good things about it, but it was something we felt we had to do because they had the guns, and we didn't know what the hell was going on."
This is the problem with news media today: These two journalists were kidnapped, treated badly, forced to 'convert' to Islam... And yet Steve&Olaf still feel all sorts of sympathy for these barbarians, argue moral relativism, make loony statements...
Oh what the hell, I'll say it--they put their liberalism above everything else, even when brutally confronted by the Islamofascists that were going to kill them. This is just more proof how radicalized the news media has become. They put their own liberalism above all, even their own lives.
"the various intelligence agencies operating in Gaza knew who the kidnapper was: the Palestinian warlord Zakaria Dughmush, who had been hired by the same Hamas group which on June 25 kidnapped and - is still holding - the Israeli soldier Gilead Shalit."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1690790/posts
This is a huge propaganda win for Hamas.
So Steve was spieling it also? Oh, brother. Well, you're correct.......a journalist is a journalist is a journalist.
Is "Olaf" of Swedish lineage? Does he have Stockholm Syndrome?
Is "Centanni" of Italian lineage? Does he have Rome Syndrome?
I guess I'm not too easily fooled.....which means I may have Freeper Syndrome, LOL.
You are so right, I still don't understand how Steve would have said that he has the utmost respect for Islam after going through that. Why can't they just say it like it is??? Because I sure hope he doesn't really mean it.