The Steyn take on Centanni/Wiig conversion to Islam

While in captivity by the Palestinians a few days ago, the Fox News employees appeared in a video and claimed they had converted to Islam. Upon their release, they said they did this to appease their captors and Mark Steyn in an essay gives his take on the matter as it relates to current events. Read the whole thing here.


In the Muslim world, they watch the Centanni/Wiig video and see men so in love with the present, the now, that they will do or say anything to live in the moment. And they draw their own conclusions... It doesn't matter how "understandable" Centanni and Wiig's actions are to us, what the target audience understands is quite different: that there is nothing we're willing to die for. And, to the Islamist mind, a society with nothing to die for is already dead.