Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. I am Bara Achi Ibrahim.

And on this episode of Heart and Soul, which explores personal stories of faith from around the world. You will hear the story of

Jibrail Omer, formerly Timothy Weeks. He was an Australian educator who was held

captive for three years in Afghanistan by the Taliban.

Astonishingly, he converted to Islam while in captivity and became a full-fledged member of the Taliban

after his release.

Over the past couple of months I built a relationship with

Gibraltar Lvia messaging services. Eventually he agreed to speak to me on the

record on two occasions. Jibrail was in Afghanistan to teach in the University of Kabul.

And three weeks after I arrived I was asked to teach a substitute class.

So on the third class that I taught when I finished it I was 20 seconds outside of the campus and we were, you know, attacked.

We were taken hostage in a very violent manner.

What circumstances then led to your

kidnapping or captivity. The Taliban had been publicly saying that unless they took these

Western teachers out of the country that they would attack the university and they would not be held responsible for what they did.

They started making these threats before you came in to take the job.

2016 there is a institution I suppose you call it in the US it's a government institution

It's called the special investigator for Afghan reconstruction and they issued a report in March with obviously I hadn't read that said you know the

AUAF needs to step up on its security. That its security is nowhere near adequate and

unless they did so that US funding would be cut.

They didn't step up, they didn't do anything and as a result the security was, you know,

completely inadequate and inappropriate.

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