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August 27, 2006

FoxNews reporters are released after being forced to convert to Islam (and you know what moslems do to apostates) - UPDATED

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Wonderful and troubling news.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Two FOX News journalists were released by their kidnappers Sunday, nearly two weeks after they were taken hostage in the Gaza Strip.

Steve Centanni, 60, and Olaf Wiig, 36, left Gaza and have since crossed into Israel after their release. The men left Gaza through the Erez border crossing. [...]

He said he was so emotional because he was out and alive.

"There were times when I thought 'I'm dead,' and I'm not," Centanni said. "I'm fine. I'm so very happy."

He recounted how he and Wiig were pulled out of their car on August 14 and taken at gunpoint into another car. The kidnappers blindfolded them and handcuffed their hands behind their backs with plastic ties. They were then transferred to another car and driven to a building that they later learned was a garage.

"We were pushed down onto the dirt-covered concrete floor and we were forced to lie face down with our handcuffs on," Centanni said.

"Olaf was in the same room with me. Our shoulders were wrenched back, very painful."

Both of the men were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint, Centanni said.

"We were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint," Centanni told FOX News.

What is that line I keep hearing from "moderate moslem" spokesholes interviewed in the media?

Oh yeah, there is no compulsion in Islam.

So what, you may ask, is the big deal now that they are free? Well, it effectively removes Centanni and Wiig from working in any moslem controlled territory ever again because if they "reject" their "new religion" they are now apostates.

And in Islam, apostates are under sentence of death at the hands of any other moslem. Hot Air has the video of their "conversion", something that can be used by Islamists (and will) to make sure that Centanni and Wiig spend the rest of their lives with big targets on their back ... or their necks.

Does the name Salman Rushdie ring a bell?

More at:

Michelle Malkin
LGF
Wizbang

Of course, don't overestimate the sympathy of far left fringies. Here's a few choice comments from Dementedcrat Underground

tocqueville
you can never "de-convert" once you are Muslim ... or else you get a death fatwa for being an apostate ... that's only fair and balanced I love it
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CJCRANE
"There is no compulsion in religion" is in the Koran. This whole convert at gunpoint thing is probably a set up of some kind. It serves no useful purpose in Palestinian politics.

This is a perfect story for Fox News - it fits all their preconceived notions of Islam to a T. Strange that Palestinian kidnappers have never held journalists for this long before, nor made strange demands affecting America nor converted their captives to Islam before.

Isn't that special?

UPDATE The only mention of this on dailykos is this diary which mocks the victims and plays the "this is all a hoax by Fox" meme.

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Posted by Darleen at August 27, 2006 08:44 AM

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