Journalists forced to convert
GAZA: Militants in the Gaza Strip freed two abducted journalists yesterday after forcing them at gunpoint to say in a videotape that they had converted to Islam. -
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Briefing: Two Fox journalists freed after forced conversion
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Just before militants released two Fox News journalists Sunday, the men appeared in a video dressed in traditional Arab robes, ranting against the West and saying they had converted to Islam. Steve Centanni, a 60-year-old American reporter, and cameraman Olaf Wiig, 36, of New Zealand, later said they were subject to abuse, tied up in painful positions and forced to convert
Kidnapped journalists forced to convert to Islam
JERUSALEM - Two kidnapped Western journalists who were freed Sunday in the Gaza Strip were forced at gunpoint to convert to Islam and at times roughly treated during their two-week abduction, one of them told CNN.
Fox reporters freed in Gaza, say forced to convert
Militants in the Gaza Strip released two kidnapped journalists from the American Fox News Channel on Sunday after forcing them at gunpoint to say in a videotape they had converted to Islam.
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Nasrallah Accused of Adventurism for Plunging Lebanon Into Costly War
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Journalists freed after Gaza ordeal
Two Fox News journalists have been released after a two-week kidnapping ordeal in which they said they were blindfolded, tied in painful positions and forced to “convert to Islam” at gunpoint.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip | Two Fox News journalists freed by militants Sunday described a harrowing two weeks of captivity during which they were blindfolded, tied in painful positions and forced at gunpoint to say on a video that they converted to Islam.
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Kidnapped journalists convert to Islam on video
Two kidnapped Fox journalists appeared on a new videotape released by their captors today in the Gaza Strip, in which the reporters said they had converted to Islam.
Briefing: Two Fox journalists freed after forced conversion
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Just before militants released two Fox News journalists Sunday, the men appeared in a video dressed in traditional Arab robes, ranting against the West and saying they had converted to Islam. Steve Centanni, a 60-year-old American reporter, and cameraman Olaf Wiig, 36, of New Zealand, later said they were subject to abuse, tied up in painful positions and forced to convert
Islamic society names first female president
Local Muslim leaders this week applauded the Islamic Society of North Americas election of its first female president.
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Fox News Crew Freed After Gaza Ordeal
WINK TV - We were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint,” Centanni later told Fox. “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
Muslim group picks first woman leader
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Jerusalem Post - At the press conference, Centanni and Wiig, who had been forced by their Palestinian captors to convert to Islam, praised the Palestinians. Centanni said, “I just hope this never scares a single journalist away from coming to Gaza to cover this story
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Journalist kidnapped in Gaza Strip has local ties
Southeast Missourian - During the captivity Centanni and Wiig were both forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint and Wiig was taped giving an anti-Western speech. It is believed the speech was coerced by threat of force. “It was a pretty tough two-week period there, and we
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Middle East Times - A video made shortly before their release aired on a Palestinian TV station shows that the journalists were forced by their captives to dress in local Arab robes, and here is the frightening part, then forced to convert to Islam. “We were forced to
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SierraTimes.com - Aug 27, 2006… stupid. They also demanded that the whole world convert to Islam as a condition for the release of these Fox people? That shows …
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Indianapolis Star, United States - Aug 16, 2006… days in captivity: Monday morning - two days after the kidnapping - my captors began trying to convert me to Islam. At first, they …
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Comparison is Drawn between Salem Witch Hunt and Mid East Terror
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“At War with Islamic Fascists”
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Piggybacking on Terror in Britain
Two days after British authorities broke up an alleged plot to blow up multiple aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean, the “moderate” Muslim establishment in Britain published an aggressive open letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair. It suggested that Mr. Blair could better fight terrorism if he recognized that the current British government policy, especially on “the debacle of Iraq,” provides “ammunition to extremists.”
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Ramadan will start in September
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