Posted on 08/27/2006 7:37:49 PM PDT by JBGUSA
JERUSALEM, Aug. 27 — Two journalists kidnapped in Gaza were released unharmed on Sunday after being forced at gunpoint to say on a videotape that they had converted to Islam.
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“I’m really fine, healthy in good shape and so happy to be free,” Mr. Centanni told Fox News. He said the two had been forced at gunpoint to say that they were converting to Islam and had taken Muslim names. “I have the highest respect for Islam,” he said. “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.”
Earlier on Sunday, their captors delivered a video showing the two men in Arab robes reading from the Koran to indicate their conversion.
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In a brief news conference, Mr. Wiig said he hoped the kidnapping would not prevent foreign journalists from covering Gaza. “That would be a great tragedy for the people of Palestine and especially for the people of Gaza,” he said.
Mr. Wiig’s wife, Anita McNaught, a television journalist, thanked Palestinian officials and Fox News for their efforts. The men refused to take questions, then traveled to the Erez border crossing and entered Israel.
Mr. Centanni told his network that he and Mr. Wiig had been blindfolded, handcuffed and taken to the abandoned garage with a generator. “I was thinking, ‘Oh God, O.K., so a remote warehouse with a big noisy generator. I’m toast,’ ” Mr. Centanni said. “They could simply shoot me in the head, and no one would hear it.”
He said he and Mr. Wiig had been forced to make videotapes denouncing American policies as well as saying they had converted to Islam.
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Wow I hadn't heard this....
Convert or die!
Yep, just a little minority of Muslims. Not!
Coming to a neighborhood near you...
Sadly..after watching a terrible msm presentation about how WE are the bad guys..I asked my wife how she would like wearing a burqua..the irony was not lost on her..
I also wouldn't be surprise if FOX News became more Islam-friendly in the future.
Religion from the barrel of a gun. Gives new meaning to the term "shoving religion down your throat".
I also wouldn't be surprise if FOX News became more Islam-friendly in the future.
Why not? They have already become more liberal friendly.
I have heard a Saudi owns part of FOX.
Sorta makes the Southern Baptists look like they're playing single A ball.
"The pious life and martyr's death of Sayyid Qutb ... He advocated global Islamic rule imposed by the sword "
This was from a earlier removed article on here (dallasnews not to be posted) where some progressive coward apologist column writer bowed to the islamic terrorists.
The only was to fight the islamic terrorist is exactly like General Pershing did in the Phillipines.
As I also wrote: that would only endanger them, their families, present hostages, and future hostages held by similar captors.
Have they recanted their conversion?
Hope they had their fingers crossed, and that one of them took their muslim name of Heywood Jablome....
If you are a Christian and you admit conversion, isn't that the same as denying Christ, which is a no-no!
As I have posted before:
Islam is not a religion,
It is a ideology based on world domination masquerading as a religion.
No other religion requires total submission or death.
Islam does.!
"Have they recanted their conversion?"
On their behalf, I say they were good actors. How difficult would it be for any of us, men and women, to read a script with one or more militant, angry thugs pointing a gun at you?
Something like that. Of course I'd probably choose to choose to answer for the sin of lying and then murdering the a$$hats that forced me into that rather than dying a martyr to Christ.
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