[BigSkyFreeper]

By the way, the family is now calling him a Shahid Abdur-Rahman. Dhimmitude Completed. I bet they will now go on speaking circuit to promote pIslam and how the whole thing was a big misunderstanding (or neocon colonial propaganda).

"Jihad John" called him by his given name, which to me suggests he didn't convert, and all that conversion nonsense was a bunch of media speculation.

[sagar]

“all that conversion nonsense was a bunch of media speculation.”

Also speculation by the parents, fellow aid workers and hostages. What would they know.