hole_n_one is a bad man.....
a very very bad man
Posted on 08/27/2006 9:24:29 AM PDT by Babu
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Militants freed two Fox News journalists on Sunday in the Gaza Strip, ending a nearly two week hostage drama in which one of the former captives said they were forced at gunpoint to make statements, including that they had converted to Islam.
Correspondent Steve Centanni, 60, of Washington, D.C., and cameraman Olaf Wiig, 36, of New Zealand, were dropped off at Gaza City's Beach Hotel by Palestinian security officials. A tearful Centanni briefly embraced a Palestinian journalist in the lobby, then rushed upstairs with Wiig behind him.
"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."
In a phone call with Fox News, Centanni said that during his capture, he was held at times face down in a dark garage, tied up in painful positions, and that he and Wiig were forced at gunpoint to make statements, including that they had converted to Islam.
"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."
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Since you have converted and are now a mooselimb, and they are so vonderfull, why did you even leave??
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1690714/posts
Easy for you to say in the cocoon under your rock.
These barbarians held a gun to your head you'd convert to Islam too to spare your life.
I'd convert to Islam with a gun held to my head too. Kings-X covers you.
Don't you have a Slurpee machine to attend to?
that's a fact...John McCain gave it up after 4 days...
Now, having said that, the Islamic fundamentalist will not see it that way. Their lie is that all must verbally confess the Prophet and they do not care what one thinks in their heart. These reporters, should the later denounce their coersed statement, will be viewed as heretical and deniers of the faith and their lives will be in danger. In addition, these brutal enemies, who want to destroy us and our faith, will use this incident to embolden more of their ignorant and indoctrinated followers to do more of the same. As Sauropod and Carry_Okie say, the world just got more dangerous.
We must fight these Islamofascists and anyone who abbets them, gives them sancturay, or truly supports them tooth and nail.
But I will leave the final, eternal disposition of these two men to God who looketh on the heart, where such judgement rightly belongs.
It's none of your business, but since you're a smart-a** rascist, I'll inform you that I'm a blue-eyed, blond-haired, born-in-America guy.
Screen names are not always what they seem, idiot!
I'm aware of it, same story, different source, different slant. If they mods want to pull this one, I guess they can ...
Not me. I would rather die than give up Christ as my Savior.
"We were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint,"
Sounds like a cult to me.
I can forgive a person for saying what they have to at gun point but Steve wasnt at gunpoint when he said this...."Don't get me wrong here. I have the highest respect for Islam, and I learned a lot of good things about it..."
Screw you, Steve.
Yeah, the captors can "imagine" that they have their fingers crossed. Then, they can say "Kings X".
Okay, I understand saying you have converted, but the words of praise for Islam and the "beautiful" Palestinian people were too much. Wonder if they threatened retribution of sme kind to coerce those statements. If they didn't, it was really wimpy of Centanni.
vaudine
Ah, but look at the bright side of converting to Islam:
You can live as if you were in the 12th century, hang out with ugly fat chicks, not drink, and run around and kill as many innocent men, women, and children that you want - all in the name of Islam!!! Isn't that fine and dandy? (/sarc)
Oh! LMAO!!!!!!!!!
The good news is that these men are now free and safe to tell their story.
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