Convert or Die? Decisions, decisions!
Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig, the two journalists who converted have caused many bloggers to raise the issue - is it preferable to stay alive, but putatively Islamic? One man, on RealClearPolitics, disagrees: They were told to convert to Islam under implicit threat (blindfolded and hand-tied, they could not judge what threat), and agreed to make the propaganda broadcasts to guarantee their own safety. That much we can understand, as conventional cowardice. (Understand; not forgive.) But it is obvious from their later statements that they never thought twice; that they could see nothing wrong in serving the enemy, so long as it meant they'd be safe. I assume they are not Christians (few journalists are), but had they ever been instructed in that faith, they might have grasped that conversion to Islam means denial of Christ, and that is something many millions of Christians (few of them intellectuals) have refused to do, even at the cost of excruciating deaths. Christianit...