Hostages Guide to Freedom

"You're a very unlucky Westerner who got kidnapped in one of this region's hot spots. There are several ways to win your freedom:

1. Pray that someone will burst into your prison room and save you

2. Your country will pay millions of dollars in ransom (works well in Iraq)

3. Your country will negotiate with a third party, i.e. Iran (works well in Lebanon)

4. You convert to Islam, at least on tape (works well in Gaza)"
Big Pharaoh

Maybe they "seen the light", I mean with the way we see Muslim behaving these days, who would not want to convert right away.