Pearl video brings the horror home

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

[aristeides]

THE VIDEO of Daniel Pearl's beheading is searing and nightmarish, but the key to its power is not that it shows him dead. It is that it shows him alive. You watch his eyes, you hear his voice, you can almost smell his fear as he tells the camera what his captors are forcing him to say.

[aristeides]

Even though I have not watched and do not intend to watch this video, I agree with Jacoby that the Boston Phoenix is right to make this video available, even against the wishes of the Wall Street Journal and the Pearl family.

[ppaul]

''My name is Daniel Pearl. I'm a Jewish American from ... Encinco, California, USA. I come from, on my father's side, a family of Zionists. My father is Jewish. My mother is Jewish. I'm Jewish. My family follows Judaism. We've made numerous family visits to Israel.''

And for this - you MUST DIE!!!!!
This is a propaganda film for Muslims everywhere to be able to justify why this young man was deserving of a brutal death.
What is frightening is they actually believe he was - for these very reasons.
And, the Q'ran and Hadith say it's okay too.

[aristeides]

They not only believe it's right, they want to see it done.

At least on the surface, the German public was not allowed to know what was being done to the Jews. They may have known or suspected what was going on, but they at least pretended not to know, and certainly did not want to have the facts shoved in their faces. And the German government, instead of displaying what it was doing, made it a state secret.

The Islamists are shoving it in all our faces, and apparently expect their audience to gleefully approve.

[princess leah]

Mike Gallagher had someone on the radio this morning defending Islam and denying that it talks about violence to promote Islam in the Koran...I shut off my radio because frankly, I am tired of Islams defending their brutal destructive and SATANIC religion...they are deceived by the deceiver and they refuse to be honest about the true facts of their cult!

[1bigdictator]

The issue of the appropriateness of airing this video brings up other issues which liberal democrats must address. I question the motives of Dan Rather and CBS for publishing it... nothing more than ratings and sensationalism can account for thier decision. Because in other instances when the opportunity arose to expose the ruthless and savage nature of militant Islam, the Network has balked at portraying muslims in a negative light in an effort to remain politically correct, and thereby have whitewashed the threat that the muslim religion poses to wesern democracies.

CBS does not show images of the carnage that palistinian homicide bombers cause on a daily basis, nor do they provide images of the torture and murder of alleged palistinian collaborators with Israel. The hypocracy of the mass liberal media is almost as desturbing as the content of the Daniel Pearl video. These radical islamic terrorists see an ally in the liberal press. The terrorists know that thier propaganda will be reported in a favorable light by liberal media outlets.

[Tacis]

If Pearl were not a presstitute, the only question that any media outlet would have is "How much of the tape do we show?" There is criticism by the media only because there are indignities of coverage to which a media widow is never subjected. A media idiot can stick a mike in the face of any non-media widow and, in a deep wet voice, ask, "And, how does that make you feel?" This is the kind of invasion of privacy that the media will almost never force on a presstitute's widow. And that is the basis of the WSJ's opposition. If it were a Jewish pizza delivery guy, you can bet your butt the tape would be "newsworthy" and "thought provoking" and "part of the responsibility of a free media to bring to the public."

[Maceman]

Here it is.

[aristeides]

Thanks, but, as I say, I'm not going to watch it. (Maybe I should put a warning on this thread here that the video is said to be highly disturbing, and people should think carefully before deciding to watch it.)

[donozark]

The "Russian Death video" was equally appalling. The Chechins/Muslims lost the support of millions by bragging about it and displaying it proudly on Muslim websites. You cannot negotiate with an enemy like this. The only rule of law they understand/respect is rule .308.

[Dick Vomer]

The video is a "must see" for everyone of the Palestinian and Islamic "supporters". I wish they'd only shown the actual killing and the blood and air spewing out to emphasize that "HE WAS MURDERED !!!!"

Every lib that thinks that we don't have to fight wars should look at that video and see that liberals may "HATE" the military but the military is what keeps butchers like these at bay. Repeat this video and show the bodies falling and the results on the ground of people jumping and falling out of the WTC. Shove those photos and videos in the face of the "Peaceniks" and ask them "Now what do you do? Do we sit and sing 'kumbaya' or drop a daisy cutter on the lot of them." I vote for the daisy cutter.

[aristeides]

If our homegrown leftists could convince themselves to support Stalin's Gulag and Mao's equivalent, I doubt if they would have much trouble in swallowing the Islamists' crimes too. But they do of course prefer to ignore them.

[ppaul]

The Islamists are shoving it in all our faces, and apparently expect their audience to gleefully approve.

And, it does, my friend. It does.

[skateman]

A pic of what appears to be a severed bird's head is not a good post for this particular thread

[Mo1]

Sorry .. that was not my intention .. but if I offended anyone .. I apologize

[Fred Mertz]

I almost watched it, but hit the stop button about 15 seconds into the video.

[Delbert]

I saw the pearl video, it was a very bad all together. But not as horribly graphic as I thought it was going to be, the chechen muslim video of the russian soldier having his head sawed off was the worst thing i have EVER seen.

[Michael Barnes]

You probably saved your blood pressure..I saw this video a couple weeks ago. Believe me, it will get ya pissed at those son's of bitches.
I have no reservations for any muslims anymore. I don't even care about the one's that are supposedly "moderate". I just want them all to be erradicated at this point.

[lsee]

In a note on the Boston Phoenix Web site, the paper's publisher calls the Pearl video ''the single most gruesome, horrible, despicable, and horrifying thing I've ever seen.'' Is it, though?

Is it more horrible than the video of the American soldier's body being dragged through Somalia?

Read this article, How The Left Undermined America's Security.

It is my hope that the horrific images of the Daniel Pearl video will pour steel into the spines of those who would placate or negotiate with evil of this kind.

[Delbert]

AGREED. GET THEM THE HELL OUT OF HERE....REWRITE THE CONSTITUTION...FREEDOM OF RELIGION: EXCEPT MUSLIMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!OH THATS NOT PC IS IT? WELL IT SO HAPPENS THAT THEY ARE THE ONLY ONES DOING THE BOMBING AND KILLING. ISLAM IS DA DEBILS BIDNESS!