Danny Pearl - Why he was killed

National Review ^ | 2/22/02 | Michael Ledeen

[veronica]

Bump.

[usconservative]

The best memorial to Daniel Pearl is freedom for the peoples of the Middle East, and a chance for them to build civil societies. For them to get there, we've got to bring down the terror regimes and kill the terrorists themselves. The president has said it repeatedly: destroy the terror networks and the states that support or harbor them.

Spot on.

Excellent post, thanks for finding and posting it Veronica.

[veronica]

Bump.

[1Old Pro]

For those of us who write, we must write more, and more clearly, so that no American is in doubt about the urgency of our national mission and the rightness of our cause.

Agreed, we cannot afford to lose interest in this "unusual" war. We must unite and remain aggressive.

[Travis McGee]

bttt

[AnnaZ]

BUMP!

[Commodore Schmidlab]

The Wall Street Journal should set up a newspaper in the Middle East call The Pearl and crank it out all over. I think the younger students there would love it!

[rface]

.....but I do know that Iran and Iraq are working feverishly to turn Afghanistan into a replay of Lebanon in the eighties, where the United States was driven to a humiliating retreat after hundreds of Americans were killed.

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[Bahbah]

Ledeen nails it here.

[Catspaw]

Good article.

Pearl was killed because he was Jewish, worked for a newspaper that reported on financial news (financial institutions are another of bin Laden's targets) and an American. People may quibble about the order, but I haven't been physically ill about terrorist acts since 9/11...until yesterday when I heard about Daniel Pearl's death at the hands of murderous thugs. It has not even further steeled my resolve to do anything to track down terrorists where they are, whereever they are, whomever they are and destroy them without mercy.

[lady lawyer]

If you listen carefully to what the already apprehended conspirators have been saying, Daniel Pearl was targeted because he was a Jew. The fact that he was an American was not mentioned. The vicious anti-Jewish sentiment among some people is just frightening.

[aristeides]

That they had him say he was a Jew on the tape right before they killed him is further evidence of their sick thinking.

[FreedomAvatar]

So, do the Islamic apologist liberals consider this a Hate Crime™ or just Diversity™ ?

[pgkdan]

Excellent post!! All I can say is an enthusiastic AMEN! I hope that President Bush sees this atrocity for what it truly is.

[HangFire]

For those of us who write, we must write more, and more clearly, so that no American is in doubt about the urgency of our national mission and the rightness of our cause.

[FITZ]

Watch the Islam promoters show up and say it's really all our fault for our policies in the Middle East.

[DoctorMichael]

Thanks for the Post.

An aside: I've been wondering whether in a twisted, tragic manner (......sorry) the brutal beheading of Danny Pearl, one of the "Media's Own", will light a fire under the butts of panderers, lefists, hand-ringers and apologists that inhabit THAT profession.

Let's Roll.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Good article. The most important aspect of Pearl's murder is that he had a lot of influence and knowledge due to his work. What a tragedy to see another life senselessly taken.

[Revolting cat!]

The best memorial to Daniel Pearl is freedom for the peoples of the Middle East, and a chance for them to build civil societies.

Silly and naive. Who wants to build civil societies there? Where are the democratic dissidents, the Solidarity movements of the Middle East? It's this kind of naivete at the offices of the Wall Street Journal, as Common Tator pointed out on another thread, that sent Daniel Pearl to his certain death. Next thing I expect to hear from these deep newspaper thinkers is that old American kindergarten refrain that all people are the same everywhere. Let the "peoples of the Middle East" build or destroy what the heck they want to build or destroy, but in the Middle East and only in the Middle East. There appears to be no room in the religious theology which governs their outlook and their lives for what we in the West know as a "civil society". End of rant.