Sean Langan

Gabriel is the Archangel Gabriel who brought down the Quran to the Prophet.

That's an Islamic belief.

And so when I said, and I said, and you want his son, my son is called, second son is called Gabriel.

And I said, as in the Archangel Gabriel, the whole room went silent and all the men who'd been told this guy's a spy and an unbeliever just looked.

And I started to cry like I am now, but it was anger.

And they all just put their heads down and they started crying because here is someone who the Taliban have told them is an unbeliever, but he's named his second son of the most holy name in Islam.

And not only has he named his second son an Islamic name, he's also prepared to die rather than give it up.

And that was not what they've been told about Westerners.

And so the Taliban commander lost face, which was a dangerous point for me because you don't want to ever in that situation, them to lose faith.

But he didn't know what to do and he left the room.

And at that point, the family then stood up and had a talk amongst themselves.

And in front of the Taliban offered me tribal protection.

I mean, they broke from the Taliban.

It's called PANA.

Tribal protection is they didn't believe the Taliban, but

It's dangerous for them to go against that.

So they offered me PANA, which meant I could not be killed whilst I was in their house and I was a guest.

And I couldn't leave the house without some promise that I wouldn't be killed.

So it was a big change.

And that came from this connection and bonding.