Pearl video brings the horror home

Boston Globe ^ | Jun. 13, 2002 | JEFF JACOBY

[Windsong]

And pigs fly...

[Delbert]

PRESIDENT BUSH: OK EVERYONE...MUSLIMS ON THE LEFT...OK THANK YOU...NOW...EVERYONE ELSE ON THE RIGHT .....THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

PRESIDENT BUSH: NOW EVERYBODY ON THE LEFT GET THE PUCK OUT OF THIS COUNTRY.

[Arthur McGowan]

I watched the video. The family and friends don't have to watch it. But Americans who want to, should watch it.

It shows Satanic evil: An innocent, beautiful young man is alive, then he is dead. That is the work of Satan, like all murders.

Islamofascism is evil. Islamism is evil. Islam is evil.

[MAWG]

I thought the Russian death video was MUCH worse. In it , the soldier is obviously still alive when they take his head off with a butcher knife. It haunts me still. In the Pearl video, it appears he is already dead when the 2 or 3 seconds of head removal are shown. Make no mistake, an enemy that would do this would do it to your wife and children as well if given the opportunity.

KILL THEM. KILL THEM ALL. NOW.

[elbucko]

Sent $**.** on Mon. 10 June, 2002 @ 12:27hrs. OK? ok!

[Mo1]

As I stated I did not intend to offend anyone and requested the post to be pull

Again .. I am sorry

[Wrigley]

I agree with you. Maybe I watched it expecting more, but the Russian video had a bigger impact on me. Not to say Pearl's death was nothing.

[beckett]

I have not watched the video and I do not intend to watch it.

I disagree with Jacoby (a rare event) on the choice of the Boston Phoenix, a lowlife "alternative" weekly staffed by vanilla leftwingers, to publish a photo of Pearl's head and a link to the video. It was highly unethical. The editor of the Phoenix justified the act by declaring, among other things, that "the general public goes to films that are far more gory." I'm quite sure the Pearl family makes a sharp distinction between the gruesome real life murder of their beloved son, brother and husband and silly, fictional Hollywood tripe like Scream. Too bad the editor at the Boston Phoenix was too dimwitted --- and too greedy for a media coup --- to do the same.

[katana]

Have seen it and despite a very strong stomach, came close to vomiting. I wouldn't watch it twice and would certainly not recommend it to anyone. However, Jacoby is absolutely right that the images say what needs to be known about Islam in much the same way that the photos of the concentration camps illustrate everything that need be said of Nazism.

[DTA]

'forewarned is forearmed'. When Bin Laden warriors from Yemen and Saudi Arabia were chopping heads and roasting Serbs on a pit in Bosnia, no one in the States paid attention. "Dirty Serbs deserved it". Similar video like Chechen one was captured by Croatian intelligence and found its way to NATO forces in Bosnia. Result? Zilch. Video was in arabic, meant for recruitment propaganda.

a preview of comming attractions

[MarMema]

More despicable than the footage of dead American soldiers dragged by their necks through the streets of Mogadishu?

It is off-topic but I just watched Black Hawk Down last night and it was riveting. I do recommend it.

[MarMema]

Thanks for that link. The Serbs were too nice to spread the word about their persecutions. The Russians got tired of being criticized and chose a middle of the road video to let the world see and judge for themselves.
If there is any doubt about the barbarian status of these people, one need only watch the chechen slaughter of the Russian soldier.
America still has a lot of learning to do about the real face of evil.

[MarMema]

In contrast to the Russian video, in the Pearl video the recorder malfunctioned when Pearl died, so the scum were denied the actual tape of Pearl's death.
What is evident in both videos is that these people are beyond redemption and have perfected and claimed a method of killing as part of their ideology and identity.
Thank God Danny Pearl was able to die without it being recorded. May all victims of these sub-humans be lifted immediately to the eternal kingdom of God, and experience peace and joy beyond our knowledge here on earth.

[pyx]

Jeff Jacoby's e-mail address is jacoby@globe.com

... and he has more balls and guts than any politician in America today. Mecca, Saudi Arabia still stands as a monument to the monsters who butchered Daniel Pearl. Saudi Princes, practitioners of wahabbism -- the same brand of islam practiced by Pearl's executioners, cavort at their home away from home, in Midland Texas.

Nuke Mecca, Saudi Arabia now and end the moslem madness once and for all.

[pyx]

That should read CRAWFORD, Texas.
(Midland, Michigan was in my mind at the time)

[semaj]

Just watched it and I am literally shaking..., not from fear mind you, but disgust, anger and rage. These filthy animals need to be treated like the blood thirsty monsters they are. Islam is from the pit of hell.

[Pagey]

I wonder if our President has viewed this tape,yet?If he had I would think he wouldn't continue saying it's a 'peaceful religion'.Okay ,it's a perverted form of islam, but I still didn't hear the 'Imams' around the world and Islamic leaders in the USA denounce this action. This also bothers me.

[MarMema]

Yeah, that's the part that gets you the most in both videos. Their complete lack of respect for another as a human being. It makes you so disgusted to think there are other humans who are like this and sharing the planet with us. You just sort of used to think that humans had some level of respect and decency, until these scum came along.

What I found the most disgusting is how they made both victims submit to the killing apparently naked wrapped in some kind of tarp. They are completely aware of the terror they are about to induce in another person and they plan for it. They are completely sick and inhuman.

[MAWG]

KILL THEM. KILL THEM ALL. NOW.

[Green Knight]

I know exactly how you feel. I saw it sunday night after I heard Drudge say he had put the link up on his website and felt just as you did. The sick, depraved bastards who did this or who approved of this deserve whatever they get.