Nigel Brennan

So I've got my Quran in my camera bag.

So I pull it out and I'm kissing it and I'm touching it to my head.

At one stage, that black figure, which was the woman that had pushed her way into the mosque and sat down beside Amanda and I, and Amanda's obviously trying to communicate with her.

She doesn't speak English.

Amanda doesn't speak Somali.

It's a commotion.

It's complete chaos.

More people are coming into the mosque, obviously.

people were in the north of Mogadishu I realized after my release but obviously the word had got out that there were two westerners in this local mosque and more people were sort of pouring in to get a look at us and at one stage it was it was like it was almost like the crowd started to part and I sort of finally got to

see what they were partying for, and it was a fairly big Somali dude.

Had a really good beard, which was strange for a Somali man.

Most of them don't have great facial hair.

But this guy's walked through with an AK-47 strapped to his chest.

Never seen him before.

Fairly solid builds.

And he walks straight up to me, standing in front of me, and he's like, As-salamu alaykum.

I'm like, wa alaykum as-salam.

And he's like, when are you Muslim?

I'm like, when are you Muslim?

We are Muslim.