Barack Obama - ignorance, a lack of respect or deliberate obsfucation?

Barack Obama's signed a law that requires the US state department to compile a public list of foreign governments that violate press freedom. This law has been named after Daniel Pearl.

Below is what Barack 'great orator' Obama managed to squeak out, he's not that eloquent without his teleprompters is he?

This is what Barack Hussein Obama said:

'Obviously, the loss of Daniel Pearl was one of those moments that captured the world’s imagination because it reminded us of how valuable a free press is.'

Really, is that what the 'loss' of Daniel Pearl meant to the world? To me it was an occasion when a Jewish American was beheaded for being a Jewish American. Khalid Sheikh Mohamed cut off Daniel Pearl's head in an act of sheer barbarism and had the murder videoed so as to help incite other Islamists to commit similar acts of terrorism on other Jews and Westerners.

At the bottom of this post is a link to a copy of the video posted by the death-cultists that includes the actual beheading of Daniel Pearl - so only follow the link if you have a strong stomach. Note how Daniel Pearl describes himself, presumably to satisfy those holding him:

"My name is Daniel Pearl. I am a Jewish American from Encino, California, USA."

Note also that the crimes that Daniel Pearl has to admit to include being Jewish and having visited Israel - crimes that mean he must die. And that's the problem, the Islamist terrorists want to kill as many of us as they can and the reasons for them wanting to do so are well documented and understood by all except those who do not want to know.


So, Barack Hussein Obama, the man who sat and listened to Rev Jeremiah Wright's anti-Semitic sermons in a church for 20 years can't bring himself to mention the real reason Daniel Pearl was murdered. So, Barack Hussein Obama, the man whose daughters were baptised in that same church cannot bring himself to mention that Daniel Pearl was beheaded by an Islamist terrorist. Why the shyness, or was it slyness?


Mark Steyn has his own views on this matter that I suggest you read, here's an extract:

'First of all, note the passivity: “The loss of Daniel Pearl.” He wasn’t “lost.” He was kidnapped and beheaded. He was murdered on a snuff video. He was specifically targeted, seized as a trophy, a high-value scalp. And the circumstances of his “loss” merit some vigor in the prose. Yet Obama can muster none.

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But what did the “loss” of Daniel Pearl mean? Well, says the president, it was “one of those moments that captured the world’s imagination.” Really? Evidently it never captured Obama’s imagination, because, if it had, he could never have uttered anything so fatuous. He seems literally unable to imagine Pearl’s fate, and so, cruising on autopilot, he reaches for the all-purpose bromides of therapeutic sedation: “one of those moments” — you know, like Princess Di’s wedding, Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction, whatever — “that captured the world’s imagination.”

Notice how reflexively Obama lapses into sentimental one-worldism: Despite our many zip codes, we are one people, with a single imagination. In fact, the murder of Daniel Pearl teaches just the opposite — that we are many worlds, and worlds within worlds. Some of them don’t even need an “imagination.” Across the planet, the video of an American getting his head sawed off did brisk business in the bazaars and madrassas and Internet downloads. Excited young men e-mailed it to friends, from cell phone to cell phone, from Karachi to Jakarta to Khartoum to London to Toronto to Falls Church, Va. In the old days, you needed an “imagination” to conjure the juicy bits of a distant victory over the Great Satan. But in an age of high-tech barbarism, the sight of Pearl’s severed head is a mere click away.

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The latest appropriation is that his “loss” “reminded us of how valuable a free press is.” It was nothing to do with “freedom of the press.” By the standards of the Muslim world, Pakistan has a free-ish and very lively press. The problem is that some 80 percent of its people wish to live under the most extreme form of Sharia, and many of its youth are exported around the world in advance of that aim. The man convicted of Pearl’s murder was Omar Sheikh, a British subject, a London School of Economics student, and, like many jihadists from Osama to the Pantybomber, a monument to the peculiar burdens of a non-deprived childhood in the Muslim world. The man who actually did the deed was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who confessed in March 2007: “I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi.” But Obama’s not the kind to take “guilty” for an answer, so he’s arranging a hugely expensive trial for KSM amid the bright lights of Broadway.

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Daniel Pearl was the first, and in his calm, coherent final words understood why he was there:

“My name is Daniel Pearl. I am a Jewish American from Encino, California, U.S.A.”

He didn’t have a prompter. But he spoke the truth. That’s all President Obama owed him — to do the same.

I mentioned last week the attorney general’s peculiar insistence that “radical Islam” was nothing to do with the Times Square bomber, the Pantybomber, the Fort Hood killer. Just a lot of moments “capturing the world’s imagination.” For now, the jihadists seem to have ceased cutting our heads off. Listening to Obama and Eric Holder, perhaps they’ve figured out there’s nothing much up there anyway.'

This is the link to the beheading video, do not view it unless you have a strong stomach - here.