This fine piece by Judea Pearl, father of late Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, should be required reading for anyone who buys the bull&%$# that terrorism is the expression of “desperation” or constitutes legitimate political expression. Daniel Pearl (pictured above) was murdered by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (who, thankfully, sits incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay) and other al Qaeda terrorists seven years ago this week.
We remember Daniel Pearl as a journalist’s journalist, a man whose even-handed dedication to truth and perfectly objective reporting stand as a shining example of what our profession can be at its best.
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All true. However, Daniel Pearl was also a good Stanford guy.
No one should forget Daniel Pearl or why he lost his life, or what he was forced to say before he was murdered. “I am a Jew; my mother is a Jew, my father is a Jew.” There are endless expressions of anti-Semitism, currently and from time immemorial, but you can’t state it more clearly than that. One hopes the Jews of America remember. For this kind of enemy, one does not turn the other cheek. Thanks for the insightful post. M. Pitz
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