Broadcasting and Cable reports:
Fox News correspondent Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig were freed Sunday, ending a two-week long hostage drama. Just before their release, kidnappers released a video of the two journalists in traditional Arab dress with which the men criticized Israeli policies in the Gaza Strip and that they had converted to Islam. The men appeared to be in good health and were brought to a Gaza City Hotel by Palestinian authority officials.
Interviewed on Fox News, Centanni said that the “conversion” occurred at gunpoint. …
Centanni recounted the initial abduction, during which gunmen pulled them out of their truck and forced them into another car. The journalists were blindfolded and hands handcuffed violently behind their backs with plastic ties. They transferred to second car and driven to a building a garage.
So when will the rest of the media and all the earnest critics of the U.S. war on terrorism realize that what happened to the two Fox journalists is the micro version of what Islamic terrorists are doing to the world: using the fear of violence to tell us to convert or die.
The difference is, we don’t have our hands tied behind our backs and our heads in the sand. Although to judge from their actions, there are some among us who would prefer to pretend we did!
