Former media watch host Jonathan Holmes features in the latest edition of Islamic State magazine Dabiq
Thursday, 14 April 2016
Jonathan Holmes's documentary "The Cost of Living" features in this heart wrenching article written by British captive of the Islamic State John Cantlie.
........a few months back I watched with interest a 27-minute documentary entitled “The Cost of Living” that was aired on ABC Australia last June. The pre-senter of the program, Jonathan Holmes, interviewed one of my former cellmates, Frenchman Nicholas Henin. Nic was a peculiar fish but I rather enjoyed his company because he was quiet and said completely weird things. One of my favourite Nic-isms was when he got a sound thrashing from a guard for throwing bread down the toilet and he announced to the room in a high-pitched voice, who had just watched him sail past the door on his head before getting a pretty decent one-two in front of all of us, that “I have just been beeeeeee-ten!” Ah, such happy days.
Cantlie was in the cell with the US hostage James Foley on the morning their heads were shaved and Foley's was cut off. He writes about Foley's last words.
“Great, captured on Thanksgiving day, killed on my mom’s birthday,” he said quietly, minutes before he was led out.
The Islamic State is apparently full of praise for Obama's decision to negotiate ransoms with the terrorists for the release of US hostages. As he makes clear, the Islamic State Quran-informed view is that "violence is the only language they will respond to".
Cantlie no doubt wrote this under duress. He is their captive. But his is an informed view - and it's a view endorsed in every page of the latest edition of Dabia. In his words
Make no mistake about it, the mujāhidīn follow the Qur’ān to the letter, say what they mean, and mean what they say.
I will have more to say about the Qur’ān, the ADF and our war with Islamists shortly.
Rest in peace James Foley along with the other victims of Islam.