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FOX Journalists Forced At Gunpoint To Convert To Islam
FOX News Website ^ | August 27, 2006 | FOX News

Posted on 08/27/2006 8:48:04 AM PDT by TaxachusettsMan

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.

The freeing of Centanni, a correspondent, and Wiig, a cameraman, ends the longest-running drama involving foreign hostages in Gaza.

The two journalists were dropped off at Gaza City's Beach Hotel by Palestinian security officials and appeared to be in good health. A tearful Centanni embraced a Palestinian journalist briefly as he entered, then rushed upstairs as Wiig followed.

Centanni, in a phone interview shortly after his release, said "I'm fine. I'm just so happy to be free."

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. "Don't get me wrong here. I have the highest respect for Islam, and I learned a lot of good things about it, 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."

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To: MizSterious

"a "religion" so rotten to the core that the only way they can get converts is to kidnap them and hold guns to their heads"

They did not convert, they read a story written for them, they acted out, as they were told to do.
Good for them, they are good actors.

Can't wait for them to come home.


61 posted on 08/27/2006 9:30:16 AM PDT by fabriclady
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To: armymarinemom
Exactly.

They're marked.

The fanatics will kill them, next time.

62 posted on 08/27/2006 9:30:50 AM PDT by Thumper1960 (Politicians are like diapers. They need changed often, and for the same reasons.)
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To: G Larry

It's quickly coming to that isn't it.
I can say I have NO respect for Islam, guns or no guns. This is not my home.....


63 posted on 08/27/2006 9:32:06 AM PDT by MrLee
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To: MizSterious
Behold the Peace of Islam: Picture of the Week



A Muslim on an airplane chanting "Allah Akbar"... what's there to worry about?  This very self-absorbed, 27-year-old Muslim man says he can't understand why fellow passengers found his audible prayers unnerving.  Islam is the Religion of Peace, after all.


For further information... try here.

Some of them are already here...

Might be wise to realize it's only a matter of time before the islamofascists take a shot here. I'm ready, I hope you are too.
64 posted on 08/27/2006 9:32:47 AM PDT by Issaquahking (Trust can't be bought)
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To: TaxachusettsMan

I guess the Fox Journalists learned how the Islamofacists plan to treat individuals and countries that become under the control of the Islamic ideology and false religion. Either convert to Islam or die. Gee, religion of peace and fits right in with America's freedom of religion.


65 posted on 08/27/2006 9:33:31 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: MineralMan

Exactly. The hysteria here over their supposed "conversion" is really annoying. They may have said the words, but God knows what's in their hearts and that's what matters -- not what they were forced to say with guns pointed at them.


66 posted on 08/27/2006 9:33:52 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod
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To: fhayek

bttt


67 posted on 08/27/2006 9:34:19 AM PDT by Guenevere
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To: Aliska

I wouldn't have converted either, then again, They wouldn't get the chance to ask because I would be kicking and screaming and raising all kinds of hell.


68 posted on 08/27/2006 9:35:19 AM PDT by Ainast
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To: Aliska; G Larry

I would not resist a "conversion" to Islam at gun- or swordpoint. I have very high principles. I have beliefs I would not compromise under any circumstances. I would ( and have) put my life on the line for the right principle or issue.

But to make a point to these asshats? What point? Look at it from their point of view:

If I yield, they are "successful," and feel all squishy about themselves. If I resist, they eliminate one more infidel whose life wasn't worth anything anyway. Remember: Convert or kill.

They're crazy. I mean clinically crazy. At the extreme edges of any extreme ideology, the behavior, the thought processing, qualifies as insane.

Why would I give my life--my gift and blessing from my God and Creator--to someone who's literally insane?

Does that mean I'm a coward? If it does, I'll be a living, breathing one. But I don't think it does.

To me it means I'm outsmarting them.


69 posted on 08/27/2006 9:35:30 AM PDT by John Robertson (Even if we disagree now, we may agree later. Or vice versa.)
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To: fhayek

about the same..


70 posted on 08/27/2006 9:35:42 AM PDT by Ainast
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To: BlessedBeGod

You can be "annoyed" all you want, but I do find it disturbing--on many levels. If it doesn't bother you, you have a lot to learn.


71 posted on 08/27/2006 9:36:25 AM PDT by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: TaxachusettsMan

I sure hope no one ever holds a gun to my head and forces me to convert to Islam. For one thing, I'd have to give up barbecue and bacon, and that would be pretty tough.


72 posted on 08/27/2006 9:37:16 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Cogadh na Sith

It could be a wonderful faith for those in it




Tell that to the converts!
There is nothing wonderful about islam...for those in it or outside it. It shackles physically and spiritually those in it, and many fear for their lives if they even consider leaving it. After all, the rightful Koranic punishment is death.


73 posted on 08/27/2006 9:38:36 AM PDT by eleni121 (General Draza Mihailovich: We will never forget you - the hero of World War Two)
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To: Kimmers

Interesting. I scanned through it. Thanks!


74 posted on 08/27/2006 9:38:59 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (You! Shake your junk!)
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To: fabriclady

Good actors? Maybe. But will Centanni denounce Islam? I'm guessing not, and I note that even once safe, he praised Islam. I won't be trusting any of his reports about the events in the middle east after this.


75 posted on 08/27/2006 9:39:30 AM PDT by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: SALChamps03

"I would have converted to save my life. Then I would have arranged a press conference from Israel upon release to see how many ways I could publicly insult Islam, and tell those who made me do it to go screw themselves."

And if you had done that it would have been exactly what God would have wanted you to do! Those who keep saying that Steve and Olaf have sold their souls to the devil by making that statement with guns to their heads, really do not know how God knows what is in our hearts.....no matter what one is forced to say! God is rejoicing today that Steve and Olaf are free and I am also! Thank God!


76 posted on 08/27/2006 9:39:49 AM PDT by seekthetruth
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To: isthisnickcool
So, to make sure that never happens maybe we should decide that since islam is ant-American and in it's essence determined to overthrow the US we should outlaw it?

How about rounding up all the muslims in this country next tuesday force them all to convert to Christianaity at gun point and shoot them if they don't?

Naahhh,,,, wouldn't work. They're all lyars.

77 posted on 08/27/2006 9:40:58 AM PDT by DonnerT (To kill a snake you must take off its head!)
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To: seekthetruth
I feel sooooo much better that your direct line to God has made this incident clear and that God approves.

/ sarc

78 posted on 08/27/2006 9:42:35 AM PDT by Thumper1960 (Politicians are like diapers. They need changed often, and for the same reasons.)
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To: MizSterious
I won't be trusting any of his reports about the events in the middle east after this.

Neither will I.

79 posted on 08/27/2006 9:42:43 AM PDT by processing please hold (If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
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To: Issaquahking

As ready as one can be. It helps to know what their true agenda is--kill all the infidels who won't convert, and for the ones who do convert, they are to be slaves. Correct me if my memory of the Koran is faulty, it's been several years since I took the time to read it so I would know who the enemy is.


80 posted on 08/27/2006 9:42:44 AM PDT by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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