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2020-05-13 Europe
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Woman Kidnapped by Muslims Converts to Islam
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 Hostage? Or Symp?
[American Thinker] Many in Italy were anxiously awaiting this Sunday for the return of Silvia Romano, a twenty-five-year-old Italian national who was freed after being kidnapped in November 2018 in Chakama, (northern) Kenya by al-Shabaab jihadists. Romano, a trained medical practitioner, was working as a volunteer for the Italian charity called Africa Milele when she was taken and accused by her captors for proselytizing Christianity in the Kenyan town.
What most were not expecting, as she stepped out of the plane that brought her to Ciampino airport outside of Rome, was her Islamic attire.
In what became a huge pro-left and pro-Islamic propaganda, after being greeted by family members, as well as Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, Romano announced she had become a Muslim, saying: "My name is Aisha now" -- the name of Muhammad’s favorite nine-year-old wife. Romano attested that her submission to Islam was a was spontaneous: "They didn’t force me to do anything. I’ve always been locked in rooms. I read and wrote."
This dispels a 2019 report by Il Giornale that, according to Italian intelligence, Romano was forced to convert to Islam and to marry one of her captors. Apparently, the jihadists who kept her prisoner brainwashed her, resorting to psychological maneuvers that severed her emotional and cultural ties from her homeland in order to make her feel assimilated to the environment she was forced to live. The fact that the young Italian was treated well during her imprisonment, even given a PC to study the Arabic language, makes acceptance of her kidnappers’s faith with a positive and deliberate will questionable. However, what raises more of an eyebrow is the Italian government’s clandestine efforts to achieve her release.
Al-Shabaab, according to a 2017 report, "has proven that they have the ability to diversify their financial tactics, despite military setbacks and funds from abroad drying up." In other words, they are experts at extorting money, and Silvia Romano became another instrument to acquire more funds for their terroristic aims.
As indicated by the Italian journal La Verità, there was a large payoff to the Islamic jihadists by Italian officials. The fact that former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said: "Nothing is free is cases like this one," gives credence that notwithstanding the millions of unemployed Italians during the coronavirus lockdown, their taxes were used to facilitate Romano’s freedom.
Two factors to consider. The first is the danger of negotiating with terrorists, especially when they demand large sums of money.
As Peter R. Neumann, Director of the Center for Defense Studies at King’s College, London, once explained:
"The argument against negotiating with terrorists is simple: Democracies must never give in to violence, and terrorists must never be rewarded for using it. Negotiations give legitimacy to terrorists and their methods and undermine actors who have pursued political change through peaceful means. Talks can destabilize the negotiating governments’ political systems, undercut international efforts to outlaw terrorism, and set a dangerous precedent."
Yet governments still do this all the time. According to reports, the Obama administration secretly paid $400 million to Iran in January 2016 in exchange for four American sailors it had detained. The four Navy personnel had surrendered in Iranian waters, causing an international incident and bringing embarrassment on the Navy for the litany of errors that led to their arrest and their violations of regulations while in custody. The payoff did not help America’s role as leader of the free world in any way, shape, or form.
The second issue to evaluate is that Silvia Romano refused to condemn the Islamic tenets that the al-Shabaab Muslims referred to in order to justify her kidnapping in the first place.
While certain Muslims, progressive-minded officials, and churchmen refer to quotes such as: "Observe your duty to Allah in respect to the women, and treat them well," to claim that Islam treats women with honor, the truth of the matter is something else. 
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