Kidnapped Fox journalists convert to Islam on video, to be spared of death; released

[therebbe]

Re: Kidnapped Fox journalists convert to Islam on video, to be spared of death; released

The kidnappers could not be Muslims because Muslims wouldn't do that.

Considering the kidnappers are not Muslims the victims would not be given the Koran and therefore could not convert to Islam.

I'ts all logical!

:giggling: Joe, your the man.

 

[therebbe]

Freed hostages say they were forced to convert to Islam

Freed hostages say they were forced to convert to Islam

28 August 2006
Palestinian gunmen have released two Fox News television journalists kidnapped 13 days earlier, bringing to an end the longest-running case involving foreign hostages in the Gaza Strip.

The pair, Steve Centanni, 60, an American correspondent, and Olaf Wiig, 36, a freelance New Zealand cameraman, said they were in good shape and happy to be free. They were later driven to Israel after meeting Ishmail Haniyeh, the Palestinian Prime Minister, in Gaza. The kidnappers, who called themselves the Holy Jihad Brigades, had previously demanded the release of all Muslims imprisoned in the US.

Mr Haniyeh denied that the kidnappers had links to al-Qa'ida or any other foreign militants. Palestinian security officials said they had known the identity of the kidnappers from the start. The Popular Resistance Committees, an alliance of Palestinian fighters, claimed to have mediated the journalists' release.

Mr Centanni said their ordeal ended with their forced conversion to Islam at gunpoint. "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," he said.

After being ambushed in a side street on 14 August, they were blindfolded and handcuffed and driven from place to place in a series of vans. "That night, we were put in the back seat of a Volkswagen, blindfolded, our heads pushed down between our knees so that we couldn't see where we were going and drove about 10 minutes," he said. "Then we heard a garage door rattling open. We were taken out of the car with our hands handcuffed behind us and herded into this garage."

Later the men were questioned about previous assignments in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and then ordered to write their "life stories". Mr Centanni said they had made a number of videotapes, though the only one they made willingly was the one telling family and friends they were alive and well.

At a press conference, Mr Centanni said: "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."

Earlier before dawn yesterday, an Israeli air strike wounded two Palestinian journalists working for the Reuters news agency near Gaza City. One of them, Sabbah Hmaida, was seriously wounded in the legs. The other, Fadel Shana, suffered shrapnel wounds to his right hand and leg.

The Foreign Press Association condemned the "outrageous targeting" of the armour-plated vehicle, which it said was clearly marked on all sides. The vehicle, it added, has been authorised by the Israelis to operate in the Gaza Strip.

Captain Noa Meir, a military spokeswoman, denied that Israel had deliberately targeted the media. Soldiers had been searching for hidden weapons in what she described as a "sensitive operation".

"The vehicle was spotted next to the force," she said. "It wasn't identified as a TV vehicle. This was a combat zone, where anti-tank rockets have been fired at us in the past."

Ten minutes later, she said, two Hamas gunmen were killed as they were about to fire a rocket-propelled grenade at Israeli forces.

* A key US legislator has said he would block aid that President George Bush promised Lebanon and free the funds only when Beirut agreed to the deployment of international troops on the border with Syria. "The international community must use all our available means to stiffen Lebanon's spine and to convince the government of Lebanon to have the new Unifil troops on the Syrian border in adequate numbers," said Tom Lantos, of the US House of Representatives' International Relations Committee. Mr Lantos said he was putting a legislative hold on Mr Bush's proposal to provide $230m (£122m) in aid for Lebanon. "It is very much my hope that I will be able to lift the hold when the reasons will no longer be present," he said.

Meanwhile four children were wounded yesterday when an unexploded Israeli cluster bomb went off while they were playing in southern Lebanon. One, five-year-old Abbas Youssef Abbas, was in a critical condition.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=704172

 

[Woodrow]

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Very interesting article one paragraph struck me as quite informative although it seem of topic for the article.

A key US legislator has said he would block aid that President George Bush promised Lebanon and free the funds only when Beirut agreed to the deployment of international troops on the border with Syria. "The international community must use all our available means to stiffen Lebanon's spine and to convince the government of Lebanon to have the new Unifil troops on the Syrian border in adequate numbers," said Tom Lantos, of the US House of Representatives' International Relations Committee. Mr Lantos said he was putting a legislative hold on Mr Bush's proposal to provide $230m (£122m) in aid for Lebanon. "It is very much my hope that I will be able to lift the hold whenthe reasons will no longer be present," he said.

 

[north_malaysian]

Re: Kidnapped Fox journalists convert to Islam on video, to be spared of death; released

They have already said that they were forced at gunpoint to convert to islam and have renounced it. I guess the 'Holy Jihad' like to force conversion even though it is supposidly against the Quran to do so.

I've heard it too...... Steve Centanni said he has highest respect for Islam and have no intention to mock Islam. But because, they WERE FORCED to renounce Islam at a gunpoint ... they did it .... and of course now they clarified that they dont really convert to Islam.

Shame on those kidnappers for MOCKING ISLAM by forcing those people to be Muslim.

"LA IKRAHA FIDDIN"

 

[Trumble]

A key US legislator has said he would block aid that President George Bush promised Lebanon and free the funds only when Beirut agreed to the deployment of international troops on the border with Syria. "The international community must use all our available means to stiffen Lebanon's spine and to convince the government of Lebanon to have the new Unifil troops on the Syrian border in adequate numbers

I had thought it was the Syrians who had big issues with that, not the Lebanese?

 

[lavikor201]

I had thought it was the Syrians who had big issues with that, not the Lebanese?

The Leabnese are the puppets of the Syrians and Iranians so whenever Iran has a problem his proxy will as well.

 

[afriend]

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This was sick......Terrible how 'Muslims' could sink so low.

'There is no compulsion in religion' [Surah Baqarah, 3rd juz, after ayatul kursi]

 

[Abdul Fattah]

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Israelian state kidnaps reporters:

http://brasscheck.com/videos/middleeast/me1.html

 

[glo]

I hope all non-believers get kidnapped in hope they convert .


No don't see it as evil act - To me its like giving you heaven!

But you cannot give somebody heaven - unless they are willing and ready to accept it!
Conversion comes from opening your heart to God - not from being threatened/ coerced/ tricked into it. :rollseyes
Without true submission and love for God, there is not commitment, and it is all meaningless.

No true follower of God would consider applying such tactics! :heated:

Peace.

 

[Rou]

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They have already said that they were forced at gunpoint to convert to islam and have renounced it. I guess the 'Holy Jihad' like to force conversion even though it is supposidly against the Quran to do so.

the ignorant do many things that does not make them islamic it makes them jokers...

 

[Joe98]

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the ignorant do many things that does not make them islamic it makes them jokers...

No, it makes them Islamic jokers

 

[Muezzin]

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No, it makes them Islamic jokers

No, I'm an Islamic joker.

Someone who forces a conversion at gunpoint is commonly called a 'moron'.

 

[AvarAllahNoor]

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It's interesting that the converted to Islam after being kidnapped. The similar case was with Yvonne Ridley and the Taliban.

It's a condtion called 'Stockholm Syndrome' it's where victims became emotionally attached to their victimizers, and even defended their captors!

 

[AvarAllahNoor]

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I hope all non-believers get kidnapped in hope they convert .


No don't see it as evil act - To me its like giving you heaven!

Bring it oooon boi!! - You'd never convert me, even if you threatened me with death!

 

[Jayda]

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Did anybody read Jill Carrol's story?

 

[QuranStudy]

It's a condtion called 'Stockholm Syndrome' it's where victims became emotionally attached to their victimizers, and even defended their captors!

However, she has denied suggestions that her conversion resulted from the Stockholm syndrome, claiming that "I was horrible to my captors. I spat at them and was rude and refused to eat. It wasn't until I was freed that I became interested in Islam.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_Syndrome

Bring it oooon boi!! - You'd never convert me, even if you threatened me with death!

LOL, a blind man never regains sight.

Did anybody read Jill Carrol's story?

 

[Jayda]

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sorry i dont understand your response...

 

[Rou]

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No, it makes them Islamic jokers

no my friend wether it be an american or a iraqi a guy pointing a gun at another and forcing them to change religon is a joker...

not a islamic one nor a christian one nor a jewish one...

just a joker...

 

[AvarAllahNoor]

LOL, a blind man never regains sight.

He does if he goes to Specsavers.....

Your religion could not give me anything that i don't already have and much more!

 

[AvarAllahNoor]

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sorry i dont understand your response...

As long as he's amused himself, that's the main thing, eh Jayda! ;D