Posted on 02/21/2002 3:00:34 PM PST by newsperson999
News Desk adds: Sources said the video tape received by the US Consulate a few days ago showed Pearl interviewing some one when an unidentified person pulled his head back from the hair and severed his head with a knife. The consulate was trying to establish veracity of the tape for the last few days. at the end if this story..HERE
Then please explain their demands.
Say what?
I was asking the question to see how you would interpret their demands. I don't know enough about this group to really comment if they are a typical Islamic terrorist group or something else.
They were violent thugs who never intended for their demands to be met.
Well, were they Christians, Jews, Buddhists? Did they kill for Allah? Face it, PGalt. They were Islamists who killed Pearl because he was 1) an infidel, 2) an American and 3) a Jew!
They were violent thugs who never intended for their demands to be met.
The term "violent thugs" doesn't really tell us much. Certainly common "thugs" don't go around making demands on other nations. Here is a statement from the kidnappers:
"A person whose identity was obscured then reads out in Urdu demands that "atrocities" against Muslims throughout the world cease, that Pakistani prisoners held at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba be released, and that the United States deliver to Pakistan F-16 fighter planes already paid for by Islamabad."
The last demand is somewhat obscure. The second seems to imply Pakistani interests. However, the first demand quite specifically points to an Muslim orientation. Based on the first statement or demand ("that atrocities against Muslims throughout the world cease") this group is quite clearly an Islamic terrorist group.
Was this group inspired by Islam to commit this atrocity? I don't know, but I have little doubt that the term "violent thugs" as a singular description is a distortion.
And when the KKK burns crosses and lynches Black people, that quite specifically points to a "Christian" orientation. Broad-brushing the entire membership of Christianity is absurd as is broad brushing the entire membership of "Islam" as "inspiring" of the acts of this particular group of people.
Yet this fact is not an indictment on the rest of the Muslim world no matter how you wish it were so.
And when the KKK burns crosses and lynches Black people, that quite specifically points to a "Christian" orientation.
Perhaps on burning crosses, but it's doubtful on the lynching of black people.
Also, bringing up Christianity in this context does nothing to dispute my point.
Broad-brushing the entire membership of Christianity is absurd as is broad brushing the entire membership of "Islam" as "inspiring" of the acts of this particular group of people.
Yes, but the issue is not as simplistic as you continually attempt to portray it. The group that kidnapped Daniel Pearl was not just a bunch of "violent thugs" as you put it, but an Islamic terrorist group. You're description is a distortion and that is the point I was making.
Yet this fact is not an indictment on the rest of the Muslim world no matter how you wish it were so.
I don't wish it were so, but it is an indictment on the rest of the Muslim World. It would not be if the rest of the Muslim world would publicly condemn the radical islamists and their killing in the name of Allah. Unfortunately the rest of the Muslim world is silent - and the only conclusion one can reach is that they don't speak out because they condone it. As far as my wishes are concerned, I wish that moderate Moslems would speak out as a single voice condemning terrorism and the killing in the name of Allah - especially American Moslems. We do not - and I feel certain - will not see that.
Sadly the sheeple don't get it. When the anti-Christ shows up I can hear the bickering now. The lack of logic will be the same in defending this evil one to come.
Regards,
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