Kidnapped WSJ reporter a friend of Muslims

UPI | 2/01/02 | SHAHID IQBAL

[dennisw]

Danny Pearl must be Jewish with that name. He's in deep s**t.

[College Repub]

He is. They think, therefore, that he is in Mossad.

[Rubber Duckie]

Too bad it wasn't Robert Fiske or Noam Chomsky. Whatever virtues their "Islamic brethern" may have, gratitude sure ain't one of them.

[Buckeroo]

Muslims are not terrorists. It is a mutually exclusive concept .. similar to [New-wave Bush Bombers saving America] capitalists and those that believe in laizzez-faire [Libertarians].

[bluester]

Muslims are not terrorists.

That's worth repeating. Terrorists are terrorists, and they can come from any religion,culture,nationality.

Civilians most certainly are not.

[Buckeroo]

I forgot to identify myself as a *BIG* Libertarian. My terms are non-negotiable through simple debate within a government body or about it. My terms are absolute! Freedom, independence from government is all about our government as a function of our mutually agreed upon Constituion and Bill of Rights!

[nopardons]

Stay on topic, or don't post. Your self aggrandizing ( only imagined ) , pompous screed , is just boring.

[wretchard]

Daniel Pearl's politics are not the issue. His abduction would be an outrage whether he was Liberal or Conservative, Commie or otherwise. While I hope that his sympathies for Muslim win him some slack, I doubt it will help. Islamic radicals are not like you and me. They don't mow the lawn on Saturdays and the photo of your wife in your wallet means exactly nothing to them.

I once flew into Jolo with a doctor from the Medecins Sans Frontieres who was totally convinced that his liberal politics would protect him from being kidnapped by the Islamic rebels. He was taken four hours after he landed.

They were like nothing he had imagined. They drank. Watched porno movies, especially the sadistic ones. They had the intelligence of cockroaches. What they had, in abundance, was an illiterate kind of hatred, envy and resentment of the Westerner. What he lacked was moxie, and the ability to suspect that the picture his friends had painted of the oppressed Islamist was not all it was cracked up to be.

[xm177e2]

Muslims are not terrorists. It is a mutually exclusive concept

The Holey Koran, Somewhere in the Middle:

Surah 3 Line 151: We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve, because they set up with Allah that for which He has sent down no authority, and their abode is the fire, and evil is the abode of the unjust.

You were saying?

[BnBlFlag]

A true Muslim has no non-Muslim Friends....See the Koran.

[bluester]

A true Muslim has no non-Muslim Friends....See the Koran.

That depends on what you consider a "true Muslim". Muslims can have non-Muslim friends and do have, and the reality can prove that. No need to make speculations and generalize.

[Buckeroo]

Let's just say, that at the end of the day, nopardons, I won't let YOU create frivolity about our Bill of Rights. Let's just say, that you have made a friend; one that cares about your well being within America.

[Buckeroo]

I am not a man of religion; I am just a simple engineer. But I recall phrases within the Christian Bible of equal or greater magnitude. Since I am not the religious scholar that you are, maybe you can look up the passages that I am talking about.

[waxhaw]

I hope Pearl makes it out of this alive and I hope he learns from this experience. As he is a journalist it comes as absolutely no surprise whatsoever that he has more sympathy/empathy and support for the Moslems than he does for his own nation.

[MarMema]

They were like nothing he had imagined. They drank. Watched porno movies, especially the sadistic ones. They had the intelligence of cockroaches. What they had, in abundance, was an illiterate kind of hatred, envy and resentment of the Westerner.

Bravo for your post. Too many Americans do not get it. Having spent time on the border of Chechnya, I have a serious opinion about these people. They are completely evil and couldn't care less about the politics of their abducted victims, nor the age for that matter.
Where is Jolo, btw?

[leadhead]

I hope Pearl makes it out of this alive and I hope he learns from this experience

I hope he hasn't decided to use the turmoil in that area for a "Promote Pearl" story.

Lottsa TV exposure and book deals in being captured; even if it's by a group nobody ever heard of and that has access to all the right email addresses.

Hmmmm

[OldFriend]

So, you think we did the right thing when we bombed the aspirin factory in Sudan? Something wrong with Pearl pointing out the fallacy of clinton/albright declaring the place a chemical weapons plant? Read and think.....read and think.....read and think.....