When Silvia Romano was freed from her 18-month captivity in the hands of al-Shebaab, after the payment of a large ransom by the Italian government to her captors, she arrived in Rome to be welcomed as a returning hero. The Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister were both at the airport to greet her. There […]
Italian Woman, Kidnapped by Muslim Terrorists, Converts to Islam and Returns to Rome (Part 1)
Silvia Romano is a 24-year-old Italian woman who, while working at an orphanage on the southeast coast of Kenya, was captured by terrorists belonging to al-Shebaab and taken to Somalia, where she was held captive for 18 months. She was finally freed, upon payment of a ransom of $6 million, and returned to Italy. While […]
Kenya: Kidnapped Italian aid worker forced to convert to Islam
During her kidnapping last year, a woman and four children were wounded when jihadists armed with AK-47 rifles opened fire during the attack. Italian intelligence officials have now claimed that Silvia Romano has been forced to “convert to Islam and marry a Somalian man.” This is a phenomenon we often see in jihad-infested territories: infidel […]