Good News from the Rest of the World
Two Fox News reporters who had been kidnapped and held in Gaza were released unharmed this weekend. I know this is a huge relief for them and their families.
The two were forced at gunpoint to make a video saying they had converted to Islam. Any possibility that their experience will make the people at Fox think twice before they invite Ann Coulter on to say that Muslims should be forcibly converted to Christianity? Or that the freeper segment of the population will be less likely to take swipes at reporters like Jill Carroll, who was accused of collaborating with her captors? Well, maybe.
However that turns out, I’m very glad for them that their story had a happy ending.
August 29th, 2006 at 11:43 am
I was astounded and delighted to read the quote from one of the released journalists:
“I hope that this never scares a single journalist away from coming to Gaza to cover the story because the Palestinian people are very beautiful and kindhearted,” said Steve Centanni, a 60-year-old American reporter who was released along with cameraman Olaf Wiig, 36, of New Zealand. “The world needs to know more about them.”
Anyone who has spent time with the Palestinian people has experienced their kindheartedness and the world does need to know more about them. But for a FOX reporter to say it!
August 29th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
That is amazing!