Journalist Subjected to Dhimmitude

Steve Centanni,of Fox News, and his camera man, Olaf Wiig, have been released.  Interestingly enough, this strange kidnapping has exposed the journalist to dhimmitude.  As written by Mark Steyn in The New York Sun editorial, "Earlier, his captors released a statement saying the two men had been offered a choice between a) conversion to Islam; b) the jizya (the tax paid by non-Muslims to their Muslim masters); or c) war. There was no none-of-the-above box. “They chose Islam,” said the spokesperson for the group,“and that is a gift God gives whom He chooses” — even if circumstances occasionally oblige Him to give it to you down the barrel of a gun."

Steyn's article analyzes the fundemental difference between Christianity and Islam.  He points out that the basis of Christianity is peaceful conversion and that the basis of Islam is forced conversion.  As he points out, … with the final words of Mohammed to his disciples:  “I was ordered to fight all men until they say, ‘There is no god but Allah.’”

It is a good artcile and is worth reading. Achilles' Heel, by Mark Steyn