Rom Braslavski, who was held hostage in Gaza and later freed, appeared on the Israeli talk show “Open with Shai” Sunday night and delivered harrowing testimony about his time in captivity. Braslavski described an exhausting battle he endured as the terrorists who abducted him repeatedly tried to force him to convert to Islam.
“All day they talk to you. Muhammad, Quran, ‘Come join us, we’re the right ones, you’re wrong, you don’t know what you’re doing, you’re changing the Torah.’ I was scared and I considered it, but I knew that God in heaven was watching,” he said.
1+Braslavski shared: “Unfortunately, many times. They come and explain to me what the Quran is, what Muhammad is, what the right religion is, how much we Jews play with the Torah and change the words, and that the right religion is theirs and you need to follow Muhammad. They always come and tell me ‘Come convert to Islam, come join us, we’re the right ones, come join us, live with us, we’ll pamper you.'”
According to him, many Jewish hostages converted during captivity: “I can say from my knowledge—60% of the Jewish hostages converted to Islam in captivity.” When the hosts asked whether he thought it might have just been an act on their part, he replied: “After I spoke with them, I understood it wasn’t just a game.”
1+He added painfully: “I also considered doing this ‘game,’ but I told myself that God in heaven is watching you. I won’t even say as a joke the phrase you say three times to become a Muslim. I decided very stubbornly not only not to convert to Islam, but to touch their sensitive points and say ‘I love Ben-Gvir.’ I said it to annoy them.”