For a journalist who covers the Muslim world, we have responsibilities to be familiar with that culture and to know how to respond to that.

I remember the moment in which we were taken hostage in Libya, and we were asked to lie face down on the ground, and they started putting our arms behind our backs and started tying us up. And we were each begging for our lives because they were deciding whether to execute us, and they had guns to our heads.

It seems like, yeah, of course - I always think my work is important, or I wouldn't risk my life for it.

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