{"id":1894,"date":"2004-05-12T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-12T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2004-05-12T00:40:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-12T05:40:00","slug":"another_daniel_pearl_moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/05\/another_daniel_pearl_moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Berg murder: Another Daniel Pearl moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altmuslim.com\/ee_images\/berg_murder.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\">Atrocity, coming up<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>If anyone needs more clear proof that al-Qaida is the avowed enemy of Muslims all over the world, one need not look further than a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com%2Ftech%2Ffeature%2F2004%2F05%2F12%2Fbeheading_video2%2Findex.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">grainy video<\/a> on a jihadi website.  Just as American officials were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com%2FnewsArticle.jhtml%3Ftype%3DpoliticsNews%26storyID%3D5105944\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">grappling<\/a> with the aftermath of the Iraqi prison abuse scandal, just as more Americans than ever before think that invading Iraq was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Farticle.cgi%3Ffile%3D%2Fc%2Fa%2F2004%2F04%2F29%2FMNGOM6CPLJ1.DTL\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a mistake<\/a>, just as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld came <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Farticle.cgi%3Ffile%3D%2Fc%2Fa%2F2004%2F05%2F07%2FMNG1A6HEGQ1.DTL\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">tantalizingly close<\/a> to losing his job, and just as Bush\u2019s popularity hit an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manilatimes.net%2Fnational%2F2004%2Fmay%2F12%2Fyehey%2Fopinion%2F20040512opi8.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">all time low<\/a>, al-Qaida ruins it all and grabs the moral low ground with a dramatic videotaped <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com%2Furl%3Fntc%3D0M0B0%26q%3Dhttp:\/\/edition.cnn.com%2F2004%2FWORLD%2Fmeast%2F05%2F12%2Firaq.berg%2F\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">beheading<\/a> of Nick Berg, an American telecommunications contractor.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabtimesonline.com%2Farabtimes%2Fbreakingnews%2Fview.asp%3FmsgID%3D5789\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Abu Musab al-Zarqawi<\/a>, linked to al-Qaida as well as an aborted terrorist attack in Jordan, used the humiliation of Abu Ghraib prisoners as a cheap excuse to commit the ultimate crime, and Muslims around the world will pay the price as the \u201cwar on terror\u201d is racheted up a notch.  Given the searing power of images, the brutal murder of one innocent can seem to rise above others (i.e. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com%2F2004%2F04%2F30%2Finternational%2Fmiddleeast%2F30AIR.html%3Fex%3D1083902400%26en%3D4b312fbfbff58d90%26ei%3D5062%26partner%3DGOOGLE\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">innocents<\/a> in Falluja who fell under sniper fire) who weren\u2019t lucky enough to have cameras around.  But it was that very same power that brought the prison scandal to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com%2Fnews%2Fnationworld%2Firaq%2Fbal-te.prison11may11%2C0%2C3293278.story%3Fcoll%3Dbal-news-nation\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">front pages<\/a>, which certainly would have been a footnote without those pictures (and, we are told, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com%2Fvoices%2Feditorials%2Feiraq11_20040511.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">worse ones<\/a> to come).  Indeed, the democratization of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com%2Ftech%2Ffeature%2F2004%2F05%2F12%2Fbeheading_video%2Findex.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">digital images<\/a> as well as their ubiquity has made sure that all the ugliness of war is just a Google search away.  Which means that the Bush administration is forced to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk%2Fworldlatest%2Fstory%2F0%2C1280%2C-4058483%2C00.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">condemn<\/a> acts committed by soldiers that would have certainly been ignored before, and we Muslims \u2013 yes, the peaceful ones \u2013 will have to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cair.com%2Fasp%2Farticle.asp%3Fid%3D33237%26page%3DNB\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">rise up<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kesq.com%2FGlobal%2Fstory.asp%3FS%3D1859800\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">condemn<\/a> murders that we once thought weren\u2019t our problem.<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Shahed Amanullah is editor-in-chief of altmuslim.com.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 9\/11, there have been only a few times where anger towards Muslims has risen to the same level.  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