Posted on 08/10/2017 9:52:51 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Swede Johan Gustafsson, who was kidnapped by al-Qaeda in Mali in 2011, has spoken publicly for the first time since his release this summer after almost six years in captivity.
Gustafsson, from Värnamo, southern Sweden, returned home in June after five years and seven months in captivity in Mali. Sweden has refused to provide details about how his release was secured, describing it only as the result of “years of efforts” by police, diplomats and Swedish and international authorities. […]
Gustafsson, 43, was abducted in Timbuktu, northern Mali, in November 2011 along with South African national Stephen McGown and Dutchman Sjaak Rijke. Rijke was freed in April 2015 by French special forces and McGown was released last week. […]
The Swede told journalists on Thursday that he looked for opportunities to escape, but in summer it was too hot in the desert. He then tried to pretend that he had become Muslim, to increase his chances of survival.
“I told them I wanted to convert to Islam. That was the only thing I could think of that would buy me some time, even though I did not have much hope that it would work,” he said. He was then allowed to walk around freely in the camp and prayed together with his captors. “I pray with them and eat with them. I act like they do. I act like I’m an ordinary Muslim, not like a jihadist. During this time you get to know them. I feel inside of me that they are the enemy, but if there is anything I can do I do it,” he said. …
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You do what you have to do.
Muslims are not to kill other Muslims, but they must be true Muslims to fit that critereon. Newly converted Muslims tend to the truest of Muslims.
I guess we ALL might have to pretend too
most of them already pretend.
Like in the movie Kingdom of Heaven, convert now repent later.
Not sure going public with this is that great an idea. They murder apostates. And there are quite a few Muslims in Sweden.
Very true
If I were in his place and did what he did, going public would be the last thing I would do.
I guess it was like being in the leftist sewerhole of New York city or Berkeley where you have to make pretend you are a leftist so you don’t get attacked.
Two thousand years ago, Julius Caesar demonstrated the only correct response to pirates/terrorists/kidnappers - kill them all:
http://www.livius.org/sources/content/plutarch/plutarchs-caesar/caesar-and-the-pirates/
In chapter 2 of his Life of Julius Caesar, Greek author Plutarch of Chaeronea (46-c.120) describes what happened when Caesar encountered the pirates. The translation below was made by Robin Seager.
[2.1] First, when the pirates demanded a ransom of twenty talents, Caesar burst out laughing. They did not know, he said, who it was that they had captured, and he volunteered to pay fifty.
[2.2] Then, when he had sent his followers to the various cities in order to raise the money and was left with one friend and two servants among these Cilicians, about the most bloodthirsty people in the world, he treated them so highhandedly that, whenever he wanted to sleep, he would send to them and tell them to stop talking.
[2.3] For thirty-eight days, with the greatest unconcern, he joined in all their games and exercises, just as if he was their leader instead of their prisoner.
[2.4] He also wrote poems and speeches which he read aloud to them, and if they failed to admire his work, he would call them to their faces illiterate savages, and would often laughingly threaten to have them all hanged. They were much taken with this and attributed his freedom of speech to a kind of simplicity in his character or boyish playfulness.
[2.5] However, the ransom arrived from Miletus and, as soon as he had paid it and been set free, he immediately manned some ships and set sail from the harbor of Miletus against the pirates. He found them still there, lying at anchor off the island, and he captured nearly all of them.
[2.6] He took their property as spoils of war and put the men themselves into the prison at Pergamon. He then went in person to [Marcus] Junius, the governor of Asia, thinking it proper that he, as praetor in charge of the province, should see to the punishment of the prisoners.
[2.7] Junius, however, cast longing eyes at the money, which came to a considerable sum, and kept saying that he needed time to look into the case. Caesar paid no further attention to him. He went to Pergamon, took the pirates out of prison and crucified the lot of them, just as he had often told them he would do when he was on the island and they imagined that he was joking.
On a large scale, that works very well to Islam’s advantage. The children of “false converts” will never know that their parents were just faking it to save their necks. The 2nd generation are raised in madrassa schools to be standard koran-memorizing islamozombies.
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