{"id":1953,"date":"2014-06-06T23:28:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T06:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2014-06-06T23:28:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T06:28:31","slug":"did-bowe-bergdahl-really-convert-to-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/did-bowe-bergdahl-really-convert-to-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Bowe Bergdahl really convert to Islam?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<p>We have the story that broke yesterday, from James Rosen of Fox News, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/06\/06\/exclusive-bergdahl-declared-jihad-secret-documents-show\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bowe Bergdahl converted to Islam in captivity<\/a>, fraternized openly with his captors and declared himself a &#8220;mujahid,&#8221; or warrior for Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Why, then, was he kept locked up by the Taliban earlier in his captivity? Why did he try to escape several times? There are several possible explanations.<\/p>\n<p>The one that seems the most plausible to me is one that I haven&#8217;t heard mentioned by anyone, and that is that it took quite a while for him to gain the trust of his captors.<\/p>\n<p>For two days now I have heard Charles Krauthammer on the Fox News Special Report panel make excuses for Bergdahl, saying that his attempts to escape show that he wasn&#8217;t a traitor, and wondering if his later fraternizing with his captors was a manifestation of Stockholm Syndrome. With these theories, he is ignoring Bowe Bergdahl&#8217;s statements, before he deserted, indicating sympathy for the Taliban. He specifically left to seek them out, and had told his parents that he was ashamed to be an American.<\/p>\n<p>So his sympathy for the enemy is established. The question we have to answer, then, is why he was locked up after they found him. Of course, we don&#8217;t know, but the most plausible explanation seems to be simply that they didn&#8217;t believe him.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully at some point we will get this whole story.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\" data-width=\"450\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-send=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-4419877247826466\";\n\/* 336x280, created 7\/26\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2207044504\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Click here to visit the Liberty Musings <a href=\"..\/\">conservative politics<\/a> home page.<\/p>\n\t<div class=\"quickshare-container\">\r\n\t<ul class=\"quickshare-genericons monochrome quickshare-effect-expand\">\r\n\t\t<li class=\"quickshare-share\">Share:<\/li> \r\n\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fdid-bowe-bergdahl-really-convert-to-islam%2F&amp;t=Did+Bowe+Bergdahl+really+convert+to+Islam%3F+<+The+Liberty+Musings+Blog\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><span class=\"quickshare-facebook\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fdid-bowe-bergdahl-really-convert-to-islam%2F&amp;text=Did+Bowe+Bergdahl+really+convert+to+Islam%3F+<+The+Liberty+Musings+Blog\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Twitter\"><span class=\"quickshare-twitter\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fdid-bowe-bergdahl-really-convert-to-islam%2F&amp;media=&amp;description=We+have+the+story+that+broke+yesterday%2C+from+James+Rosen+of+Fox+News%2C+that+Bowe+Bergdahl+converted+to+Islam+in+captivity%2C+fraternized+openly+with+his+captors+and+declared+himself+a+%22mujahid%2C%22+or+warrior+for+Islam.+Why%2C+then%2C+was+he+kept%26hellip%3B\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Pinterest\"><span class=\"quickshare-pinterest\">Pinterest<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fdid-bowe-bergdahl-really-convert-to-islam%2F&amp;title=Did+Bowe+Bergdahl+really+convert+to+Islam%3F&amp;source=The+Liberty+Musings+Blog&amp;summary=We+have+the+story+that+broke+yesterday%2C+from+James+Rosen+of+Fox+News%2C+that+Bowe+Bergdahl+converted+to+Islam+in+captivity%2C+fraternized+openly+with+his+captors+and+declared+himself+a+%22mujahid%2C%22+or+warrior+for+Islam.+Why%2C+then%2C+was+he+kept%26hellip%3B\" title=\"Share on Linkedin\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"quickshare-linkedin\">Linkedin<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fdid-bowe-bergdahl-really-convert-to-islam%2F\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Google+\"><span class=\"quickshare-googleplus\">Google+<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"mailto:?subject=The+Liberty+Musings+Blog:+Did+Bowe+Bergdahl+really+convert+to+Islam%3F&amp;body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fdid-bowe-bergdahl-really-convert-to-islam%2F\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share via Email\"><span class=\"quickshare-email\">Email<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t<\/ul>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have the story that broke yesterday, from James Rosen of Fox News, that Bowe Bergdahl converted to Islam in captivity, fraternized openly with his captors and declared himself a &#8220;mujahid,&#8221; or warrior for Islam. Why, then, was he kept &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/did-bowe-bergdahl-really-convert-to-islam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[902,20,1134,903,362,904],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","tag-bowe-bergdahl","tag-charles-krauthammer","tag-islam","tag-james-rosen","tag-special-report","tag-stockholm-syndrome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1955,"href":"http:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/1955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}