Posted on 12/06/2005 10:09:20 PM PST by Jeff Head
I just watched an interview with the daughter of the American Peace Activist held hostage in Iraq.
While I can respect the strength of the man's convictions, I sharply and fundamentally disagree with them. He specifically stated that if taken hostage he did not want US or Iraqi forces to attempt his rescue with any use of force. Despite this, it is clear that he was there in direct opposition to US forces and was in fact abetting the very people our forces and the free Iraqis are fighting.
When asked by the host if there was anything that she would like to say to her father's captors, she stated the following (this is almost a word for word quote),
"I would like to say to them that my father was always very welcome by the Iraqis he was trying to help, that the work that he was there to do is the same work they would like to see done,"
Now I know she is distressed, but she was very straight forward in her comments and her opposition the US effort in Iraq. I take her at her word.
In essence, from this interview, it is clear that the so called, Christian, peace activist mission, is a mission to support the enemy.
I really, really hope the jihadis saw these peoples' heads off. Can't think of a nicer bunch for it to happen to.
I get your point and agree with you.
He made a mistake that a lot of the haters of the U.S. , particulary the haters of President Bush make.
That because they also hate the U.S. and want to see us defeated also, that the enemy will accept them as allies.
Daniel Pearl [sp?] made it. He was wanting to write a story that was critical of President Bush. Various other individuals have also, with disasterous results to themselves, have made that same mistake.
What they and the other U.S. haters, both over there and in the U.S., fail to accept is that to the terrorists an infidel is an infedel fit only to have their throat slit.
Some people have to be cited to a fact. But by then it is usually too late for them.
She sure was, although the kidnappers are among "the Iraqis he was trying to help."
I certainly won't call you cold-hearted for saying that. The really cold-hearted thing to do would be to want him saved despite his wishes and thereby support the cause of the terrorists.
Then both she and her Dad are maroons, because the terrorists will not give a rat's a$$ that he is for their 'cause'. He's an American, and they hate ALL American; that's obvious by what they did to Nick Berg.
It looks like he is going to get what he deserves.
So they took me into a small spare room with a video camera trained on a single wooden chair. A large muslim flag with crossed swords made a backdrop.
They were handling me pretty roughly but I figured they were just trying to impress the Al Jazeera guy who was pissed off because he had been waiting so long.
"I've been here since eight o'clock ths morning! I have to get to an IED site by noon, lets get this thing on!" he was yelling in Arabic.
They quickly tied me to the chair and blindfolded me. I could feel the cold steel of the saber against the back of my neck.
"Infidel!", Amar shouted in English, which was pretty decent. "Filthy Christian! American pig! You will renounce your government, your president! You will admit to the Zionist plot against the Arab people! You will renounce your filthy religion or, by Allah, I will cut your head off!"
The room was silent for a moment until the true meaning of his request sunk in and I started to laugh - a giggle at first and then outright laughter which turned to tears.
"Is that it?" I asked. "Thats all? Of course I do!"
We all had a pretty good laugh about it later at the reception in the French embassy.
Daniel Pearl was not a U.S. "hater." Where'd you get that? Please let's not go down the twisted liberal path of saying that victims of muslim terrorists brought it on themselves.
> I have never heard of a Quaker evangelizing.
George Fox must be spinning in his grave.
I read Marianne Pearl's book and there was no mention of the government paying to ransom him, though his panicked family members were willing to do so. The truth is that the man was doomed the second they found an Israeli telephone number in his address book.
I did not say that he was a U.S. hater.
I did say that he wanted to do a story critical of the Bush Administration's involvement in Iraq and Afganistan.
That was reported in the msm. According to them he wanted to interview locals and get their opinions.
Go back and look it up. I remember reading it.
There's a school of though among the fifth column that if they can show our enemies how much we care about their poverty and their victimization (by us). They'll respond by loving us back and not corking our heads off over the internet. The truth is they relish seeing a useful idiot squirm in agony as the sever their heads. When these America's enemies hear our eco-tourists put down their our country it just reinforces their contention that we are so evil that even our own citizens dispise the United States. So evil we deserve to die.
In Baltimore they just stand on street curbs with candles and posters promoting "Peace."
If we actually enforced our treason laws in this country (and in theatres of operations) the frequency of occurrence of these types of incidents would be much reduced. Of course, essentially, the US has not credibly enforced treason laws since the ill fated McCarthy fiasco. Since then, no one has had the courage to undertake treason law enforcement actions in all but the most aggregious cases.
He was in Karachi researching the network around shoe bomber Richard Reid and a vermin named Gilani tied to Osama bin Laden. The filthy vermin murdered him because to them he represented Bush and Sharon. Daniel Pearl may have personally been critical of the war, but he strove to be a balanced journalist.
Naive? Sanctimoniously ignorant destructos. Terror morons. Not Naive.
There is an AP article that clarifies our new kidnapping policy. It turns out that the shift is this: The old policy said the United States could take absolutely no part in a ransom scheme, whereas the new policy has left the following loophole. If a company, like Dow Jones, for instance, wants to negotiate a ransom, the government can be involved in the effort.
In other words they aren't going to tell a private company how to care for their employees. That's cool. But to actively negotiate at the government level is pure insanity.
Well, as Christ said "With men this is impossible, but all things are possible for God."
Don't forget that Princeton U. just quashed a speech and forum by ex-Muslim-terrorists who had converted to Christianity.
If they get beheaded after preaching the Gospel to Al Qaeda in Iraq, we should honor them as martyrs. If they get released or rescued and repent of their support for the enemies of civilization, we should welcome them home as brothers. If they get released or rescued and go on spouting the idiocies with which they embarked for Iraq, we should spit at them.
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