Nigel Brennan

and ran for a couple of hundred meters got to a tenor section looked to my right saw the minaret of the mosque uh looked to my left and saw a crowded marketplace and obviously my brain has just gone safety in numbers run for the market and i started running towards the market and maybe after 100 meters i did a u-turn and ran back past amanda got to that tenor section and by then there was the

The next door neighbour was standing there at the Tena section of this dirt road and said, do you need help?

And I just grabbed him and said, please help us, we need to get to the mosque.

And it was like Amanda and I'd sort of picked him up under the arms and we're just now sprinting towards the mosque.

And unbeknownst to us, Jamal and Abdullah were, you know, in fairly hot pursuit.

We've gone up the side stairs of the mosque and jesters are about to enter the building like a crack of an AK-47 straight across the top of the mosque.

Ran in with Amanda and with obviously this next door neighbor and basically just said, I win, I win, I win.

Please help, please help, please help.

Wanna hate Muslim?

I am Muslim.

Want to hate Muslim?

We are Muslim.

And then started to say the profession of faith.

And then straight into the first surah of the Quran.

So I've got this verbal diarrhea.

And then two older gentlemen sort of came up to us and said...

who are you, what's going on in English and explained that we had obviously been kidnapped for five months and that we were Muslim and as I'm sort of explaining things to them, I just get coward punched straight to the back of the head.

So Jamal and Abdullah are now in the mosque behind us.

Jamal's punched me and then he's grabbed my arm

And he's trying to pull me out and I pulled away from him with such force that it's just literally ripped the sleeve straight off my shirt.