Mariane Pearl has suffered a great deal and it is perhaps churlish and uncharitable to venture any critical word at all. But it isn’t she I am criticizing. It is the general tendency, the felt need or the unspoken imperative, to take all possible opportunities to exonerate Islam of all connection to crimes done in its name and in accord with its teachings. It is certain that Mariane Pearl received numerous messages after the murder of her husband. The one that she and/or the Post chose to give first mention, however, was “I am a Muslim and this, my friend, is not Islam.”
The first question that springs to mind about this is: Why this message? Why is cleansing Islam’s image the number one priority?
The second question is: Why is this always asserted but never explained? Daniel Pearl was made to state that he was a Jew and then he was beheaded. In a hadith that Muslims consider authentic, Muhammad is depicted as saying: “The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.” (Sahih Muslim 6985)
And the Qur’an says: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (47:4)
In light of that, it is unfortunate that Mariane Pearl’s interlocutor apparently did not explain how the killing of Daniel Pearl was not Islam, how the jihadis who killed him were transgressing Islamic tenets, or how the passages of the Qur’an and Hadith that seem to allow for such behavior actually have some other meaning or can be interpreted in a benign manner.
The third and easiest question to answer is: Would the Washington Post ever print an explanation of the Islamic justification for the murder of Daniel Pearl, even if such a story included statements by Muslim spokesmen in the West offering differing interpretations of the passages in question? And the answer is, Not on your life! Not only is the Post, and all the rest of the establishment media as well, dedicated indefatigably to whitewashing and obfuscating the ideological roots of jihad terrorism; it is also determined to pretend that there isn’t even a question about those roots: they lay, according to the Post and its colleagues, in “racism” and “Islamophobia,” not in Islamic texts and teachings, and anyone who suggests otherwise is a racist “Islamophobe” himself.
The victory of “Islamophobia” propaganda has been so complete that the elites don’t even consider it remotely necessary even to address the arguments of those whom they smear as “Islamophobes,” or to acknowledge that they have any arguments at all. The only problem with all this is that the jihad, motivated by Islamic texts and teachings according to numerous statements of jihadis themselves, is not going to go away for all this pretending that it doesn’t exist.
“Opinion: Mariane Pearl: My husband’s killer could go free in Pakistan. Despite the injustice, I still have hope.” By Mariane Pearl, Washington Post, February 3, 2021 (thanks to Darcy):
“Almost two decades ago, the people of Pakistan sent me messages expressing sadness and anger at the murder of my husband, Daniel Pearl, in their beloved country. Danny was 38 years old and the Wall Street Journal’s bureau chief for South Asia. “I am a Muslim and this, my friend, is not Islam,” one wrote. My favorite message read: “Your husband had a great smile . . . a happy mixture of Pope John Paul and Dean Martin.”
wth009 says
She’s so delusional.
mortimer says
The most important pillar of Islam is JIHAD. Anti-Semitism is as common among Muslims as the canonical Islamic aversion to dogs. The Koran tells jihadists to ‘strike the necks’ of enemies of Islam. Those principles inspired Pearl’s killers. It was Islam all along that killed Pearl.
Islam’s teachings (ideology) are the reason for the murder of Pearl and about 50 jihad victims each and every day of the year.
Michael Copeland says
Allow Imam Hussein Bin Mahmoud, prominent writer, to put the Pearl family wise:
“Islam is a religion of power, fighting, jihad, beheading and bloodshed.”
http://pamelageller.com/2014/08/prominent-cleric-cleric-justifies-beheadings-islam-religion-beheading.html/#sthash.ev2ucGmz.dpuf.
austin says
the Pearl family, mother and father, are delusional
his widow is an selfish narcissist
gravenimage says
This is *too harsh*, Austin. She is a decent person who has suffered a horrifying loss–she is just naive in thinking that it is not orthodox Islam behind this.
mortimer says
I agree with GI (‘too harsh’). Mariane Pearl has suffered a lot and is likely to have received death threats to her and her family from jihadists to silence her. That would be EXPECTED from these cold killers.
In grief, there is not always good sense. I hope Mariane Pearl learns about jihadism and discovers it is normative Islam, rather than an aberration. Mariane Pearl may already know that, but she is frightened into silence.
n.bryan@xtra.co.nz says
Couldn’t open the link. Has it been taken down?
gravenimage says
Pamela Geller’s site says the page has been removed. It doesn’t say why.
Keys says
The Washington Post link is working now.
Infidel says
The article didn’t mention whether she believes it, and unless and until she says so, I wouldn’t assume anything. What it did say is that she gets mail from Pakistan, and those are the people indulging in taquiyya
Given how Pakistan happily aids and abets the persecution of non-muslims, as well as try and bully non-muslim countries (except of course China) that don’t grovel for their ‘islamophobia’, what Mrs Pearl’s interlocutors are sending her are not just disingenuous: they’re downright lies!
mortimer says
Agree. Most families who experience the lethal effects of jihad, set down to learn about jihadism, so they can understand the warped, vicious thinking of the killers. They often become critics of Islam.
Bud says
I do no know Mariane Pearl personally, but have been a friend of the Muslim woman in whose home the Pearls were staying in Karachi, and from where he left and was last seen alive.
This friend is a Muslim feminist, who has tried to advance a ‘Reformation’ of Islam. Years ago, I could not understand why Muslims would attack her over things that she would write in articles. They would always belittle her and tell her that she did not know or understand Islam.
In the late 1970’s I had been introduced to the work of a well known French Islamologist, Louis Massignon, who took a very counter-Orientalist approach to Islam. He sought the good and tried to reconcile Islam with Christianity. So, I was influenced by his writings, and wanted to see Islam in that same light.
I admit to being a slow learner, but, through the work of so many people like Robert Spencer, Jay Smith, David Wood and many, many other informed and reliable teachers, some years ago I came to see that there is no place for a ‘Reformation’ in Islam. That, coupled with the 35,000(+) Islamic terrorist attacks since 9/11 …. aided and abetted by the silence and/or collusion of the MSM and Western politicians constitutes a truly existential threat to not just Western civilization but to the entire world….Joe Biden’s existential threat posed by ‘climate change’ notwithstanding.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that background, Bud.
Rajs says
Sadly true
mortimer says
Right, Bud. The ‘Doors of Ijtihad’ (exegesis) closed in the year 1111AD, thus, Islam may never be reformed.
Islam is frozen in 1111 AD.
OTTER says
The ones who can be fooled most easily by Islam are women.
OThat’s one thing Islam got right about women: they are not very good at thinking.
mortimer says
I believe Otter may be right based on opinion surveys by PEW and other pollsters. Protestant males are the most skeptical about Islam. Many women are notable counterjihad thinkers and leaders.
somehistory says
islam didn’t get anything “right.” It’s not appropriate to lump all women in with those who are swayed by others to believe the nonsense this poor woman seems to believe. And there are some males who aren’t so “good at thinking.”
gravenimage says
OTTER *hates* women and constantly calls for them to be controlled and abused by men–he claims that women *want* to be brutalized by Muslim thugs.
somehistory says
Over the years, I have noticed in many movies, tv series and movies, and in books of fiction, writers have put women in this very position of wanting to be treated brutally…after ‘protesting’ and saying things like “I hate you,” then afterward ‘liking’ it and “falling in love” with the one who does the rape, beatings, etc.
In a few of the old John Wayne movies, he “spanked” the lead woman; in I Love Lucy, Ricky ‘spanked” her; and there have been movies where the male lead basically raped the lead woman and she “fell in love” with him. “Romance” novels are full of this kind of stuff.
When the writer/author is a woman, that sends a message. When the actor is held up as a hero…handsome and strong, such as Wayne was…that sends a message.
In truth, women don’t like to be bullied…unless they are mental cases…but they generally do like a man who acts like one and doesn’t allow himself to be bullied by his wife, girlfriend, mother…he has to stand up for himself, but still be a kind and gentle person when it’s called for.
Either gender is vulnerable to the wiles of islam if they are not informed and not paying attention to what is happening and why.
gravenimage says
Apparently OTTER doesn’t think that Daniel Pearl himself was easily fooled in being lured to his death–naivite about Islam is not just something suffered by women as OTTER pretends.
But really, pretty much his entire shtick here is that white women must be controlled by white men–to be stripped of the right to vote, prevented from getting an education or working outside the home, and being forced to breed.
How this is any better than Islam he never says.
OTTER says
It’s a matter of degree.
I never called for all the things that Islam does to women to be done to white women. However, the conceptual collapse in the West of the notion that men must lead women and women must obey men (not to be confused with being abused by them) will cost the West dear.
Now Islam has not only weaponized its women, it has also weaponized the white woman against Western civilization. I am amazed at the volume of complaints that white women have against white men, when they are the most pampered women in the world who have got all their material affluence and comfort because of the inventions of the white man !
All I pointing out is that women are more gullible than men when it comes to Islam (not that it means lefties aren’t ) and this will be taken advantage of by Islam to destroy you from within.
If white women do not give birth to a sufficient number of children, its game over lady.
Is it so complicated?
Once again: white men must regain control of their white women if the West is to survive.
What you have today is the strange spectacle of what I call the white woman’s burden, where this species goes around the world poisoning relations between men and women everywhere by speaking against men, while welcoming macho Islam into their countries.
That does NOT include courageous female fighters against Islam, but they are the exception that prove the rule, including Gravenimage.
OTTER says
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/02/spain-leftist-politician-praises-islamic-al-robert-spencer/
Another gullible white woman. They will kill you, white men. Beware.
James Lincoln says
OTTER,
Instead of using the word “control” which has a negative connotation, I would substitute “strong positive influence.”
gravenimage says
OTTER wrote:
It’s a matter of degree.
I never called for all the things that Islam does to women to be done to white women. However, the conceptual collapse in the West of the notion that men must lead women and women must obey men (not to be confused with being abused by them) will cost the West dear.
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How nice… What, exactly, is OTTER exempting?–he’s being pretty coy here. He has already said that he wants to strip white women of their ability to vote, get an education, and abilty to work outside the home. He has also said that they must be forced to breed, which is *rape*.
So–what, exactly? Maybe he wouldn’t impose FGM, but wife-beating and other forms of violence must surely be on the table–how else to force these b*tches to give up their rights and obey all random men?
More:
Now Islam has not only weaponized its women, it has also weaponized the white woman against Western civilization. I am amazed at the volume of complaints that white women have against white men, when they are the most pampered women in the world who have got all their material affluence and comfort because of the inventions of the white man
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Yes, there are, grimly, many women who *are* whiny–but hardly all of them. And it seems that OTTER wants to shut women up entirely. Just chilling.
As for the rest, many inventions have been made by men–I would be the first to make note of this. But one reason for this is that women were long prevented from working in any professional field–a state OTTER constantly rants about returning to.
I guess OTTER is fine doing without the circular saw, aquarium, computer algorithm, fires escapes, car heaters, windshield wipers, wireless transmission technology, word processors, and many other inventions, created by those damned inferior females…
More:
All I pointing out is that women are more gullible than men when it comes to Islam (not that it means lefties aren’t ) and this will be taken advantage of by Islam to destroy you from within.
If white Women do not give birth to a sufficient number of children, its game over lady.
Is it so complicated?
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It is not just women in the West who are responsible for families having fewer children–many men here want fewer children, as well. The impliction that men all want large families and that it is women preventing this is quite false. And among couples who do have children, men are statistically far more likely to abandon their families than are women.
The problem with low birthrates in the West is not just because of women.
More:
Once again: white men must regain control of their white women if the West is to survive.
What you have today is the strange spectacle of what I call the white woman’s burden, where this species goes around the world poisoning relations between men and women everywhere by speaking against men, while welcoming macho Islam into their countries.
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Heaven forefend that any of these uppity womens might “poison” the fine relationships between Muslim men and their sex slaves. Bad dhimmis!
And a major reason that Muslim nations are such financial basket cases is that women are rarely allowed to contribute much of anything to the economy. Of course, if they are also keep from getting an education, then they won’t have much to contribute in any case.
If only we could have the literacy levels of so much of Dar-al-Islam, how much better things would be… of course, OTTER may be shocked to find that most civilized people, men and women, don’t think that a retreat to the dark ages is actually a good thing…
More:
That does NOT include courageous female fighters against Islam, but they are the exception that prove the rule, including Gravenimage.
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Well, thanks. But if I had been prevented from learning anything and was not allowed to speak–as OTTER counsels–then I doubt I’d have a whole lot to contrubute here or anywhere else…
And he does not explain how my–and Pamela Geller, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and Kathy Shaidle, and all the other Anti-Jihad women–having to obay any random male who came along–not just the sane ones, but any random dhimmi tool–would improve matters.
But as I have said before, OTTER seems *far* more intent on “controlling” women than he does on actually opposing Jihad terror.
More:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/02/spain-leftist-politician-praises-islamic-al-robert-spencer/
Another gullible white woman. They will kill you, white men. Beware.
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Isabel Franco is a moron and a useful idiot. So are many men, white and otherwise. Just off the top of my head, these include President Biden, Pope Francis, Episcopal Archbishop Rowan Williams, Professor Craig Considine, Cultural Commissioner of the German Protestatant Church Johann Hinrich Claussen, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven–the list goes on and on. How can anyone who reads here at Jihad Watch pretend otherwise?
The fact is that all too many people in the West are clueless about Islam–*that* is what we need to deal with, rather than OTTER’s sick fantasy about enslaving women.
mortimer says
Otter’s misogyny is particularly offensive. Once women (who are inclined to be nurturing) discover the systemic misogyny in Islam, they will revise their unwarranted, generous opinions of Islam. It’s a matter of education in the right way. I give women the excellent book by Carmen bin Laden (‘Inside the Kingdom’). It’s written from the woman’s perspective and women who read it say things like ‘Thanks, I never imagined.’ The book is filled with examples of misogyny, discrimination, female despair and cases of slavery taking place in KSA even today. Carmen had to commit fraud to leave KSA with her daughter and of course, she could never return. It’s an excellent eye-opener of a book for women.
somehistory says
mortimer says
Feb 7, 2021 at 10:34 am
“I believe Otter may be right based on opinion surveys by PEW and other pollsters.”
mortimer says
Feb 8, 2021 at 9:09 pm
“Otter’s misogyny is particularly offensive.”
David says
The men are not much better, if at all. They do nearly all the killing.
OTTER says
Men kill more than women.
Men commit more crime than women.
Therefore, if you want to control crime, it makes good logical sense to focus on men. That does not men women cannot commit crime.
Similarly, when it comes to Islam, it does not mean that men cannot be fooled by it. They can and are fooled by it all the time. But leftist men seem to think of it more as an ideological commitment.
If you want to see how even Muslim women are fooled by Islam, read how ISIS recruits women. Even here, they use ‘love’ to fool them.
When I am pointing out that western women are more likely to be fooled by Islam, I am simply stating the fact.
I am not against women, any more than I am against men when I point out that they are the initiators of violence in history.
Women do not have men’s priorities. They are more given more powers of empathy and compassion by nature, which is used to deadly purposes in making our Western societies succumb to lslam.
No religion has succeeded in weaponizing women to the extent Islam has. Look at all the battles over the hijab. Its men, getting to conquer you, through their women! Sheer evil genius.
gravenimage says
There are both men and women in the West, grimly, who convert to Islam. Female converts can indeed be dangerous–but not more dangerous than male converts overall. Probably marginally less so, statistically.
somehistory says
You have made some reasonable points in this comment.
omar….insisted on being able to wear her ugly scarf on the floor of the House of Reps…against all of the rules up until that time. There are more men in the House than women…and the House caved to her demands.
Women are used as spies and “lure” men into telling secrets. Reminds of the woman in the Bible who lured Samson into telling her from where his super strength came.
As you say, women are more emotional, compassionate, which are good traits and very useful in raising children.
But, no one has a lock on being reasonable, intelligent, thinking things through before deciding, etc.
Men are lured to islam by its macho attraction…power, authority over others, violence,…because they are inclined toward those things.
women are lured by the males pretending that the woman is the most beautiful, the most wonderful, he can’t live without her, he needs her, etc. and he lies about what she will be expected to do afterward and how she will be treated.
Also, there are some women who are also lured by the ‘power’ and the ‘authority over others,’ because their personality is inclined that way.
Psychopaths come in both genders. Prisons are full of psychopaths. islam has more than all prisons combined.
gravenimage says
Excellent post, Somehistory. Agree.
terry sullivan says
islam is not terrorism–it is islam
mortimer says
The jihad ideology of sacred warfare against kafirs until their complete subjugation is an ‘essential’, compulsory doctrine of Islam, and one that must be believed and practiced. Jihad, moreover, has the character of a sacrament in Islam which ensures the Muslim of immediate passage into paradise.
PRCS says
Correcto Mundo!
Terrorism: the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
As Islam (the ideology) is a theocracy, its teachings meet the “in the pursuit of political aims” test
Muslims who act it out–religiously–are Terrorists
Andrew says
So if we are all told to say over and over after yet another Jihadi attack… “This is not islam”, then shouldnt people be saying that the Inquisition by the Vatican centuries ago, in its actions… “This was not Christianity”.. or am I just being a deflecting islamophobe.
Its just so hard to keep up with this nonsense these days.
islam does not tolerant tolerance, islam believes in revenge, islam sees tolerance as our weakness,while we see it as our strength, islam believes in revenge, we believe in either turning the other cheek or sitting down for a cuppa Tea and talking it over.
Christianity believes Hate the Sin Love the Sinner.
islam believes Hate the Sin kill the Sinner.
Regarding homosexuality for instance, wee bit of a difference there… dont ya think…
somehistory says
You are so right. But not many people would say that wrongs done by those claiming to be Christian don’t represent Christianity. Jesus never told His disciples to murder others, nor attempt a forcing of His teachings onto others. And, attempting to “force” them shows that those forcing are not obeying Christ’s commandments.
Michael Copeland says
Jesus was boring.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/12/jesus-was-boring/
Keys says
But JC was “cool”, MC.
He could change water into wine, walk on water, cure the sick, cast demons out of the possessed, raise the dead, multiply loaves of bread and fish enough to feed thousands, and coolest of all rise from the dead after three days !
somehistory says
Jesus was…and still is…wonderful. He is Perfect. He was a Perfect Man. He treated people as He would want to be treated…the “Golden Rule.”
And as Keys has written, He did wonderful things no one else ever did…before or since.
He was not boring. He is not boring. The entire world of humankind will soon find out just what our Lord, King, Savior, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace is capable of doing. Everyone will pay attention, like it or not.
Jesus Christ was the most exciting Man ever to walk on the earth…or water.
Jesus Christ will bring wonderful things to mankind in the near future as a Mighty Spirit Being.
gravenimage says
Michael, I know that “boring” is tongue-in-cheek–but yes, many violent Muslims would consider love and goodness “boring”.
David says
As a point of topical interest, Trump never told anyone to hurt or kill other people, contrary to the firm belief of Demoncrats.
Aastra says
these reminds me of when mudslimes do the attack. yet they are portrayed as victims like in kashmir state of india.
later mudslimes proudly mock the non muslims saying we attack your police and spit on them everyday. they keep their heads down and do not utter a word.
now west will experience the same.
Mount Zion says
One wrote to the widow ;”I’m a muslim and this is not Islam”. If this is not Islam then what is it ?
The standard answer by muslim taqqyija practitioners would be ” It’s a distortion of Islam”. My second question then would be , why is it that the discrepancy between the benign Islam and the distorted Islam is so huge . Why is it that one understanding calls for peace and living happily ever after and the other calls for killing infidels and decapitation . In virtually no other religion the discrepancy is so big . And by the way the Islam which calls for the decapitation of jews and christians , is backed by islamic texts and teachings so please spare me the crap of ; “This is not Islam .
mortimer says
Agree. The assertion that Islam inspired the murder of Pearl is based on Islam’s teachings, rather than whitewashing, ungrounded wishful thinking.
James Lincoln says
Mount Zion,
Very thought-provoking post, my compliments…
mortimer says
Dear MZ, the ‘discrepancy’ or gap you refer to is caused by Islam’s canonical teaching called ‘ABROGATION’. Allah makes two statements or decrees that are contradictory, both are considered eternal and right, and both come from Allah. This means Muslims can be benign if it helps Islam to advance or they can be vicious if that works better. It’s a matter of what suits the circumstances.
So, Islam’s ethical system is entirely opportunistic and self-serving … so Islam seems duplicitous and irrational to outsiders. The logic of Islam is predatory opportunism.
gravenimage says
Good questions, Mount Zion.
Fred van de Bunt says
It has got something to do with the Great Jihad, the Great fight against the inner sin, and the infinitesimal tiny Jihad, the holy war against infidels and corruption in the land etcetera.
And that infinitesimal tiny Jihad is mostly executed by a very tiny amount of Muslims that do not have the authority to proclaim a rightful holy war with a fatwa, or by Muslims that misinterpret holy commands, or by the ones that do not understand the old Arabic language, or the ones that are no Muslims, for instance Shia if you are a Sunni and the other way around.
So, if you take a Venn diagram in your mind, and the big circle is Islam, you draw a tiny circle in it for the infinitesimal tiny Jihad, the holy war, and in that tiny circle there is only space left for a very very very tiny dot, which tiny dot represents the rightful infinitesimal tiny Jihad or holy war, which is zero.
As proven, Islam is peaceful.
Pepper says
Islam has not been peaceful in my lifetime (I am 65) nor before my time. You must be kidding right?
gravenimage says
Fred is indeed being sarcastic, Pepper.
James says
Fred, you given us a fine example of sophistry. You left out the biggest argument as to why islam encourages violence — the teachings in the Koran and hadiths.
All your contrived Venn diagram show is the the majority do no act out the violence. Yet, they do support the violence by their silence.
mortimer says
Response to Fred: The claim of the ‘Greater Jihad’ (the jihad in the soul) is based on a spurious hadith that has no chain of recitation and thus it has no authority whatsoever in Islamic theology.
The idea of ‘greater’ and ‘lesser’ jihad (with violent jihad being ‘lesser’) comes from an anecdote in an 11th-century history of Baghdad. It is not in the Koran or in any of the authoritative hadith collections. The mention of ‘greater jihad’ first appeared in Ta’arikh Baghdad by al-Khatib al-Baghdadi in the 11th century. It was quoted in the 16th-17th century by Muhammad al-Manawi in order to promote Sufism. It is a spurious idea that is not found in primary, original Islam.
The most serious Islamic teachers reject the fake hadith.
Jaladhi says
Au contraire, Lady! This is Islam, 100% Islam and nothing but Islam!
Joeyn says
Condemn the sin (the Islamic ideology) but not the sinner (those who act upon it). The latter we need to be cautious and suspicious of as well as feel sorry for.
somehistory says
To those moslims who murdered this man because he wasn’t one of them, I would say as Jesus Christ said to those who wanted to murder Him, “Offspring of vipers, how are you to flee the Judgment of Gehenna?” I don’t “feel sorry” for murderous snakes.
JOEYN says
Those murderers will certainly face the consequence of their act through the judicial system and/or through God’s judgement. However we should be careful not to hate/condemn them since that hate / condemnation is only going to be more detrimental to us than to them. Remember the Bible says ‘Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.’
somehistory says
To see their “rotten fruit” and to identify them for what they are….Jesus said those who lie are “from your father the devil and wish to do the desires of your father, a murderer when he began….” is not a “condemning” of them. To recognize them for the children of satan…as the Apostle John wrote…is not wrong. That recognition is not the same as “judging” them as the Scripture you quoted is saying not to do.
The Bible says to “hate what is bad,” and it also lists 7 things that God hates. Among them, “a lying tongue, a heart fabricating hurtful schemes, feet in a hurry to run to badness, a false witness, hands shedding innocent blood,”….We are told to “hate what God hates.”
Now, look at these moslims who have “hands that shed innocent blood,” and who have “lying tongues, and give false witness,” and who have “feet hurrying to do bad,” and “hearts full of hurtful schemes,” and say that you feel sorry for them instead of “hating” the things Jehovah hates.
When you tell me to “be careful” and warn me about “judging” them, you are misapplying what I wrote. We can certainly do our best to imitate Jesus Christ. And, that includes pointing out that these lying, murdering scum are worshipping their “father” satan the devil and are **liable*** to the final death of “Gehenna.”
Jesus asked, “How are you to flee the ****Judgment*** of Gehenna?” That is what I wrote that I would say to these moslim snakes who murdered Mr. Pearl…and any who support them, or act like them, or lie for them.
gravenimage says
JOEYN, Pakistan just released one of Daniel Pearl’s murderers.
Infidel says
Joeyn, hate the sin but not the sinner is pretty fashionable in Christianity, but if one thinks logically, sins don’t exist in a vacuum unless and until sinners commit them! Islam wouldn’t be possible if there weren’t something like 20-23% of the world’s population either practicing it, or even merely identifying w/ it. Those numbers are the main, if not the only reason that islam is the threat to civilization as it is. Had there been only as many muslims as there are scientologists, we wouldn’t be talking about them
Joeyn says
Replying to gravenimage. That is why it is crucial that we have leaders like President Trump in the USA who are capable of putting pressure (possibly through sanctions) on countries whose judicial systems do not work for those who have been wronged by their own citizens. However the sad thing is that even in the US the judicial system seems to be heavily corrupted by the Left and Islamists.
somehistory says
When it comes to being published…in a book or otherwise…the writer has to write what the publisher will print. She wrote an “opinion” but it probably wouldn’t have been published if she had said what most of us here would say about islam and what happened to that poor man, Mr. Pearl.
Of course, it’s islam. Through and through and the moslim who said otherwise is a liar, plain and simple.
moslims never give examples to show that it isn’t islam and the moslims who commit the murders, rapes, etc., never deny that it’s islam, but say proudly what their fake ‘prophet’ told them to do. And they expect a big sexy drunken reward for doing it.
One thing that shows this woman was under pressure to write what the liar wrote to her…though it does not say that she agreed with the liar… is what she said was her “favorite” message. Surely there were some who said the Truth in their messages, perhaps even strong condemnation of islam…that the paper would refuse to publish.
JOEYN says
This is in reply to your statement above in your conversation with me. I could not find the reply button in that conversation and thus I am replying to you here.
My comments were not regarding what you are doing or what I am doing. So I am not accusing you of judging or condemning anyone. I am just making statements about what we should aspire to do and that is why I used the term we in my statements. The reason i said we should feel sorry for (compassionate towards) those murderers is because that is exactly what Jesus did from the cross towards those who murdered Him when he said ‘Forgive them Father for they know not what they do’. Again I am not claiming that I am doing this or you are not doing this. I am just saying that it will be a good idea to aspire to be like Jesus though I know it is not an easy thing to do.
somehistory says
And, again, you are doing the same thing here as in your other comment directly to me.
Jesus knew that the soldiers who were guarding Him while he died were not the ones who put Him there. If you read the verses again, you may notice this:
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When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!”
That is one reason…the other being that He could read their hearts…He could ask His Father to forgive them.
If you have read the entire Bible, you may have noticed that Jesus said there is an “unforgivable sin.” That is the sin against the Holy Spirit…and is illustrated by he Pharisees and others who denied that Jesus is the Son of God…which the Roman guards did not commit.
He also told us “Don’t throw your pearls before swine, or give what is Holy to dogs.”
How can we follow and obey this command from our Lord if we don’t know who are the “swine and dogs”?
Have your read anywhere in the Bible where Jesus said that He would ask His Father to forgive those who attempted to silence Him and who finally managed to get the Romans to murder Him? He asked them…asked them…how they could avoid Gehenna…which is another name for the “lake of fire.”
They could avoid it by repentance…except they weren’t going to because they had already committed the unforgivable sin.
Part of our “aspiring” to be like Jesus should include recognizing evil; and that some…in fact “many” want to be evil and will never repent. These many are on the “broad road leading to destruction.” The “swine” and the “dogs.”
Jesus openly spoke to people about their evil. We are not imitating Him by doing differently in this regard. Speaking to a person who has murdered an innocent person, such as Mr. Pearl was murdered, and telling them they are copying satan is the ****right*** Christian thing to do.
Sim says
I’m afraid Mariane Pearl confuses compassion with justice. Is the perpetrator truly repentant and remorseful for the brutal murder of her husband? I doubt it unless he denied Islam in jail which I doubt. Real Islam is Allah ( Quran) and Muhammad ( Sira and Hadith). Anything else is not Islam no matter what apologists say. I know Mrs Pearl is a deeply spiritual woman, a Buddhist by faith and her forgiving nature is commendable. But does she feel real forgiveness or an obligation to try and forgive. What are the chances of her husband’s killer committing such a crime again? As a devout Islamist he could be lying ( Taqqiya) to gain release in order to continue his Jihad. ‘War is deceit’ as the Prophet said.
Tony Naim says
The Washington Post is involved in propaganda instead of honest journalism, pressing with an agenda rather than seeking the truth. Promoting multiculturalism at the expense of liberty. Comrade in arms with other media outlets and left leaning elitist political class.
Multiculturalism implies equality among all cultures. However, there are 2 critical distinctions to make when it comes to Islam:
The first is historical, related to the fact that Europe ,America and the Middle East developed according to a judeo-christian conscience, where a Christianity that was born out of Judaism,grew to assimilate the Old Testament, which is actually the history of Israel.
The problem lies in the radical teachings of Sharia, which condemns any kind of friendship or a positive relationship between Muslims on one hand, Jews and Christians on the other. It condemns the influence of Christians and Jews over the Islamic civilization. Islam totally rejects every notion of Judaism and Christianity.
Therefore, when dealing with multiculturalism, we are obligated to accept Islamic prejudices with regard to our own beliefs and values. The kind of prejudices that intend to destroy, wipe out our own values. Sharia does not accept our Judeo- Christian notions of human rights.
Consequently, the media is involved in an ignorant process of mental conditioning that will ultimately culminate in the imposition of mental Dhimmitude in the public cultural and social sphere of the west. An abject condition of strangulated liberty.
Which brings me to the second point, if multiculturalism represents such a state of utopia in the west, why not promote it everywhere else, most notably in Islamic countries?
James Lincoln says
Tony Naim says,
“…if multiculturalism represents such a state of utopia in the west, why not promote it everywhere else, most notably in Islamic countries?”
Great question.
Let’s see the Leftist / Marxist / globalist / muslim apologists, etc., try to promote multiculturalism in a country like Iran…
Rarely says
Marian Pearl has had to come to grips with her husband’s atrocious murder. How she does (or did) it is not for me to judge. I sincerely wish her and her children well.
Crusades Were Right says
“I am a Muslim and this, my friend, is not Islam.”
Isn’t it an Islamic doctrine that Mohammedans are forbidden to have non-Mohammedan friends?
Isn’t it also an Islamic doctrine that Mohammedans are permitted to deceive non-Mohammedans for the purpose of benefiting Islam/Mohammedans?
How “Islamophobic” of us to notice such things!
David says
“I am a Muslim and this, my friend, is not Islam.” The first part is true, and the second part is Pure Taqiyya.
I detect much Taqiyya in the Democrats who are currently toadying up to Iran. WTF?
tim gallagher says
As most other commenters have said, this barbaric murder was exactly what islam is about and always has been about. A vicious creed if ever there was one. A death toll of around 270 million so far in Islam’s blood soaked history and the murder of Pearl was just one more victim of Islam. And, although it is tragic what happened to Mrs Pearl’s husband, all of us have to wake up and face the truth about islam’s evil nature (and stop buying lies like “This isn’t Islam” and “Islam is basically peaceful”) and then maybe we can deal with this disgusting, evil ideology in the way it needs to be dealt with.
gravenimage says
Daniel Pearl’s widow in Washington Post highlights message she received about his murder: ‘This is not Islam’
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Sadly, this is *anything* but the case.
David says
Why does she think her husband was murdered? Was it by another ‘mentally disturbed’ (muslim) person?
gravenimage says
If I recall correctly, she thinks they were “extremists”. Sadly, lots of people think like this.
Joeyn says
Regarding your comment for me ‘Pakistan just released one of Daniel Pearl’s murderers.’ If it is true this is certainly a terrible injustice but it is not surprising. It is sad but true that in many Islamic countries the Judicial system does not work for infidels. I wish other countries like the USA would apply pressure (example by applying sanctions) on countries who deny justice to those who have been wronged by their citizens. I know this is asking for too much, considering the fact that people like the Democrats and RINOS are being in charge of countries like the USA.
gravenimage says
Here’s this grim story, Joseph:
“Pakistan: Supreme Court orders Muslim convicted of beheading Daniel Pearl to be moved to government ‘safe house’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/02/pakistan-supreme-court-orders-muslim-convicted-of-beheading-daniel-pearl-to-be-moved-to-government-safe-house
JOEYN says
Thank you gravenimage for the link to the story. Truly a terrible injustice.
notnolib says
It’s EXACTLY islam. It’s islam as commanded by its inventor, the pig-faced dog and rapist mohammed.
OLD GUY says
Islam is the teacher of DEATH to non-islamic people. Islam you can’t have it both ways, your Quran spells out the treatment of non-islamic people plainly. Convert them, or enslave them, or KILL them. The only PEACE in islam is between islamic members who follow Muhammad’s Quran to the letter, other wise you to are considered for the same violent treatment. Islam is the ultimate DICTATORSHIP.