After the Fox News reporters were released from captivity, their captors posted their intentions to kidnap other non-Muslims and kill them if they don't convert:
Palestinian militants who held two Fox News journalists hostage for nearly two weeks threatened in a statement posted online Saturday to abduct non-Muslims visiting the Palestinian territories and kill them unless their demands were met.The statement, posted in the name of the Holy Jihad Brigades on a website frequently used by militants, said the group would kill any hostages it takes unless they converted to Islam, paid a ransom or Muslim prisoners were exchanged for their release.
"Any infidel blood will have no sanctity," the group said in the statement.
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During their captivity, the journalists were forced at gunpoint to declare that they had converted to Islam, Centanni told Fox News after he was released. The group said in its statement that the journalists' declaration saved their lives.
"Nothing but Islam gave their blood sanctity and prevented their slaughter," the group said.
It added, "We are not the sort of people who are fooled ... but only God knows intentions."
The Jill Carrol, another kidnapped journalist was also pressured into converting to Islam:
Monday morning - two days after the kidnapping - my captors began trying to convert me to Islam.And as I mentioned on Saturday, a tape has been released in which an American Muslim states that Americans have to convert or face the consequences in this life and the next. Michelle Malkin transcribes the parts that the MSM didn't bother to report:
At first, they sat me down in front of the television and turned on a satellite channel which airs programs about Islam in English. After a while Abu Ali - the salt-and-pepper bearded man who had helped kidnap me - came into the room carrying a Koran.
He was eager to show me the similarities between Islam and Christianity, so he was telling me how many stories from the Bible are actually in the Koran. I was anxious to make him like me and feel I was sympathetic to him, so much so that I began using more of my Arabic.
Sounds like a theocracy to me."Islam is the only religion acceptable to God and came with the revealed book, the Koran, which abrogates all previous revelations, like the Torah and Evangel... God recognizes no separation between religion and state..."
"To Americans and the rest of Christendom we say, either repent (your) misguided ways and enter into the light of truth or keep your poison to yourself and suffer the consequences in this world and the next..."
"If the Zionist crusader missionaries of hate and counter-Islam consultants like Daniel Pipes, Robert Spencer, Michael Scheuer, Steven Emerson, and yes, even the crusader-in-chief George W. Bush were to abandon their unbelief and repent and enter into the light of Islam and turn their swords against the enemies of God, it would be accepted of them and they would be our brothers in Islam. And we send a special invitation to all of you fighting Bush's crusader pipe dream in Afghanistan, Iraq, and wherever else W. has sent you to die."
I found this part particularly interesting:
"Why not surrender to the truth? Escape from the unbelieving army and join the winning side. As for those who have expressed their respect and admiration for Islam, and acknowledged that it is the truth and demonstrated the support and sympathy for the Muslims and their causes like George Galloway, Robert Fisk, and countless others, I say to them, isn't it time you stopped sitting on the fence and came over to the side of truth? ...Abandon unbelief and accept the truth."Here is a window into the thinking of the terrorists, their supporters aren't even safe. I think George Galloway and Robert Fisk should probably take these words to heart: "Any infidel blood will have no sanctity." Do you think this will change their opposition to the war? I don't.
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