August 27, 2006...6:05 pm
JOURNALISTS RELEASED
The two Fox News journalists kidnapped at gunpoint by Muslim extremists were released without any physical harm but you have to wonder about their mental state since they were forced at gunpoint to convert to Islam, even adopting Muslim names and reading anti-Western and anti-U.S. propaganda statement and wearing traditional Muslim garb.
The journalists had been seized in Gaza City on Aug. 14 by a previously unknown group calling itself the Holy Jihad Brigades. However, senior Palestinian security officials said Sunday the name was a front for local militants, and that Palestinian authorities had known the identity of the kidnappers from the start …
On Sunday, before the journalists’ release, a new video was released, showing Wiig and Centanni dressed in beige Arab-style robes. Wiig, of New Zealand, delivered an anti-Western speech, his face expressionless and his tone halting. The kidnappers claimed both men had converted to Islam.
Here is the actual video statement of Centanni and Wiig indicating their “conversion” to Islam:
Allahpundit has more analysis and information here, as well as video after the release.
Analysis from Debka (H/T to Michelle Malkin):
It must be said that the Palestinian kidnappers also walked away without suffering any harm and can keep on snatching victims without fear – exactly as the same terrorist gang got away with murdering three Americans in Gaza in 2003. In fact, the prime minister Ismail Haniya, who belongs to an Islamist terror group, was allowed to take credit for the release after winning a face saver in the form of the conversions and an anti-American diatribe.
What kind of religion, if you even want to call it that, forces people to convert with a gun pointed at their heads or a knife at their throats? Hint: it isn’t a religion. It’s a cult, a bloodthirsty one at that, of violence, bloodshed, murder and death.
Islam. The Religion of Piece (of arm, of leg, of torso). Coming to a neighborhood near you thanks to the appeasement crowd in the West that refuses to defend itself and actually thinks these are people with whom we can rationalize and negotiate.
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