Comments on: From Bondage to Freedom

By: Stephen Bernier

Stephen Bernier — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:57:57 +0000

I suppose that the “kind-hearted, beautiful” palestinian gunmen/kidnappers persuaded Centanni and Wiig that the “religion of peace” was best experienced at the barrel of a gun or the point of a sword. It seems to me the more western journalists (if they can really be called that) praise Islam, the more oxymoronic the journalists become.

By: james huggins

james huggins — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:50:31 +0000

I understand that most media, correspondent types are automatic apologists for America’s enemies. I believe one must be in the “always blame America first” camp before they can get any kind of media job. But, to be victimized and symbolically emasculated by that bunch of ignorant thugs and to come back singing their praises shows a severe lack of intestinal fortitude as well as common sense.

By: Stephen W. Browne

Stephen W. Browne — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:44:16 +0000

A new thing that Judaism introduced into the world, later incorporated into Christianity, was the ethical notion that a forced oath is not valid. (With the exception of parole, another radical innovation made by civilized people as an alternative to killing prisoners out of hand.)

I don’t blame those reporters in the least for doing whatever was necessary to survive. But they’d do well to remember from now on that in Islam the penalty for apostasy is death, and apparently the Islamists have reverted to paganism on the issue of oaths.

I’d find another beat if I were them, and I’d be looking over my shoulder for a long time to come.

By: Leonard

Leonard — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 03:47:27 +0000

I do mean to criticize.

How about this for moral blindness: you’ve just been abducted, threatened at gunpoint, and forced to convert. Then you turn around and say you don’t want your experience to “[scare] a single journalist away from coming to Gaza to cover the story”. Which is bad enough: other people should not learn from your victimization? Aren’t you essentially imploring them to risk being a victim? But I’d cut him slack on that if he had returned right back into the hornet’s nest. Of course, he didn’t. Perhaps he did learn something after all, something he doesn’t really want other people to think about.