Posted on 08/27/2006 2:59:20 AM PDT by Hannibal Hamlin
Kidnapped Fox reporters "convert to Islam" on video
Sun Aug 27, 2006 5:20 AM EDT
By Nidal al-Mughrabi
GAZA (Reuters) - Two kidnapped journalists for the American Fox News Channel appeared on a new videotape released by their captors on Sunday in the Gaza Strip, saying they had converted to Islam.
Palestinian Interior Minister Saeed Seyam said efforts were under way to secure the release of Fox correspondent Steve Centanni, a 60-year-old American, and New Zealand-born cameraman Olaf Wiig, 36, within hours.
Both journalists appeared to be in good health in the new video. They were seized on August 14 by a previously unknown group called the Holy Jihad Brigades.
The two men were shown separately sitting cross-legged, reading statements announcing that they had converted to Islam. At times in the video they were wearing long Muslim robes.
"I changed my name to Khaled. I have embraced Islam and say the word Allah," Centanni said.
Wiig called on leaders of the West to stop "hiding behind the 'I don't negotiate with terrorists' myth."
Interior Minister Seyam of the governing militant movement Hamas expressed optimism the ordeal for the two reporters would soon be over.
"Efforts are under way with several parties to secure their release within the coming hours," he told Reuters.
The Holy Jihad Brigades claimed responsibility on Wednesday for the kidnapping and had warned the United States to free Muslim prisoners to prevent the captives facing unspecified consequences. The deadline expired on Saturday.
The United States has said it will not make "concessions to terrorists."
A separate statement from the captors said: "They chose Islam and that is a gift that God gives those whom he chooses."
A videotape released on Wednesday showed the two men, dressed in tracksuits, sitting on a blanket in front of a black background. They appeared fairly relaxed and in good health. Both said that they were fine and being treated well.
The kidnapping is the longest-lasting abduction of foreigners in the Palestinian coastal strip in more than a year.
The Hamas-led government has called for the men to be freed while several prominent militant groups in Gaza have denied involvement and also said the men should be freed.
Previous kidnappings of foreigners have usually ended after a few hours, or at most a few days, of captivity.
Well, there goes their ability to operate in Mohammeden countries.
Assuming they "converted" under duress, and have no intention of "being" Mohammeden, they will still be viewed as apostates and live under the death penalty if they recant their conversions.
When they overthrow our country, they will search everyone's internet postings and hunt you down like a dog.
You're a dead man walking. /s
As you did not supply a source, I decided to do it for you:
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Jihad
The Holy War of Islam and Its Legitimacy in the Quran
Ayatullah Morteza Mutahhari
Translated by:
Mohammad Salman Tawhidi
Published by The Islamic Propagation Organization, P.O. Box No. 11365/7318, Islamic Republic of Iran
Printed by Sepehr, Tehran, Iran1405-1985
http://www.al-islam.org/short/jihad/
Immediately a rooster crowed. Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken: "Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times." And he went outside and wept bitterly.
Steve Centani, we do not blame you for telling these mosters what thay want to hear just so that you can stay alive. You are still a hero. We know that you will denounce them for the savages that they are once you are free.
Semper Fi'
Jarhead
bwahahaha! CHOSE
And no one should believe they actually converted.
sw
I would come home, kiss the ground of the United States and never, ever leave again even to go as far as Canada or Mexico.
Since the kidnappers couldn't kill them, couldn't trade any prisoners for them, and couldn't get any money for them, a faux conversion to Islam is a way for them to save just a little face when releasing them.
sw
I wouldn't be certain of that. The Islam conversion garbage would be the sort of "in your face" icing on the cake these neanderthals would relish while they count the money.
We are witnessing the greatest anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-life collective in the history of civilization.
All I can say is thank God they are safe.
I changed my name to Khaled. I have embraced Islam and say the word Allah," Centanni said
I would have changed mine to "Irving" or something, more original. Everybody in the NBA is named Khaled.
Especially if one of their hooded thugs is standing by with a rusty knife ready to saw off my head! That thought horrifies me almost as much as burning to death!
I think if your religous convictions are weak you are open to other religions. Add kidnapping and the possible threat of beheading you become very open to other religions.
And it will sureley bring the competitor's ratings down further, IMHO.
If they said the formula then, as far as Mohammedans of all varieties are concerned, they converted and if they show signs that they converted back upon release then they are apostate and their lives are forfeit. The sentence just may get carried out if they return to Saracen territory or even in the US of A if they are too public about their apostasy. That is a source of unease re: the schoolkids who are required to say the formula in school courses in California. As far as the paynim are concerned those kids now have death sentences on their heads if they show that they were insincere.
Islam itself has always been what Nazism would be if Hitler had only thought to claim he was doing everything in the name of some god.
Is it just me or does anyone else say BULL$hiite to this comment??
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