Murder of Daniel Pearl, as a Jew, in the name of Islam was one of the most atrocious acts by the Muslims who claim, and continue to claim, that Quran forbids the murder of innocents. Danial Pearl was no more innocent then the many other innocents, both Muslims and non-Muslims, killed by Islamo-facists since then either in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia or Iraq. A very seriously damaging chapter in the history of Islam has been opened by the Islamo-facists who claim to stand up for me and my faith violating the most fundamental laws of their own God against the killing/harming of innocents.
These Islamo-facists must be faced and the moral majority must end it’s silence to their acts. The leaders of the Islamic faith must pass, as their responsibility, the fatwas against those committing these most abhorant and barbaric acts against not just the individual innocents but, by such, against the whole of humanity, as many learned Muslims pointo to such as stated in the “Book of Allah”.
The ire of the masses resulting from various multitude of issues hurting the Muslim ummah must not, and can not, transcend Allah’s commandment to safeguard the innocents for to do such only invites Allah’s ire upon his own believers.
There are many amongst us who see and understand the clear violations of Quranic injunctions and understand that the means do not justify the end. The issues facing us require actions that are not, ultimately, damaging to Muslims and go against Islam. These true “leaders” of Muslims must continue their Jihad against the Osamites and other Islamo-fascists… the true “unbelievers” within the fold of Islam and work to cast them out from amongst us like cancer for they are eating us from inside out.
The response to the Muslim terrorists must come from “within” for no external pressure will find a solution to this rotting and debilitating condition that is settling on the Muslim body.
As the countless American-Muslims who are trying to apply the cure, Danial Pearl Foundation must also continue to build bridges between the Muslims and the Jews. Furthermore, Daniel Pearl Foundation must work with their American-Muslim counterparts to pressure the U.S. government to recognize the role the American-Muslims can play in the fight against terrorism and help promote those with moderating views and voices of the “true” Muslims like Imam Hamza who recently made national news for he is but one voice of Islam that the U.S. government can not do without.
The salvation of future Danial Pearls lie in helping raise the true voices of Islam and not in rolling armies across the Muslim landscapes which, when can not be faced head on, result in the only outlet in the hands of the desparates, and fanatics, that of taking revenge against the Daniel Pearls of the world who are personified as the West or those “who are not with us”.
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How to Stop Barbarous Public Murders
Letters to the Editor – THE WALL STREET JOURNAL – October 8, 2004
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We read with great admiration the article of Amir Taheri ( " ‘Exhibition Killing,’ " editorial page, Sept. 30), who courageously criticizes Muslim leaders for the disingenuous way they denounce the exhibition killings in Iraq. Their condemnation is based on political expediency, not morality.
It would be a mistake to remain passive before such barbarism. As parents who have suffered deep pain at the loss of a son to this form of terrorism, we believe there are a number of concrete actions people of conscience can take to help minimize, if not eradicate, exhibition killings.
First, we must urge the media, especially the Arab media, to exercise responsible judgment on whether and how they broadcast and publish terrorist-produced imagery and messages. Any amplification of their voice empowers terrorists with an illusion of achievement and whets their appetite for more cruelty.
Second, we must urge leaders of the international community to declare all forms of exhibition killings – the murder of an innocent person for the purpose of broadcasting grievances – a crime against humanity, with all the legal and moral ramifications that this entails.
Third, we should implore religious leaders of all denominations to proclaim these crimes a capital sin, or heresy, punishable by religion’s harshest instruments – excommunication, hellfire and damnation. In particular, we should call upon Muslim clerics in the West to use the Islamic instruments of Fatwa, Apostasy, Takfir and Fasad (corruption) to excommunicate and exorcise both the perpetrators of exhibition killing and the clerics who legitimize it.
For example, there are dozens of religious leaders in the West who command the credentials to officially proclaim al-Zarqawi an apostate, namely, one who falsifies the roots of Islam. Their reluctance to do so encourages al-Zarqawi’s followers and sympathizers to confuse his logic of killing with the logic of Islam.
Exhibition killings threaten the fabric of civilized society; it requires all our efforts to see this hideous practice eradicated.
Judea and Ruth Pearl
Los Angeles
( The writers are the parents of Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was murdered in Pakistan in 2002. They head the Daniel Pearl Foundation www.danielpearl.org.)
