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Thanks to the many of you who responded to the Daniel Perl memorial. For
those for whom the link didn't work, the full URL is:
http://www.wiesenthal.com/social/press/pet1.cfm?petid=56&m=5923L5681634s&src
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Please copy it all and paste into your browsers.
Thank y'all.
At 10:36 AM 1/23/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>From: "Simon Wiesenthal Center" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "Yigal Levin" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: We Remember Daniel
>Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 23:48:17 -0800
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> We Remember Daniel
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><link> January 23, 2003 marks one year since the brutal kidnapping of Wall
>Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Karachi, Pakistan by Islamic
>terrorists. Less than one month later he was murdered by his captors. The
>vicious interrogations of Daniel and his 'execution' were even videotaped
>and distributed by his captors. The murderers were proud of their heinous
>crime and hoped to incite others to follow in their bloody footsteps.
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>Why was Daniel murdered? Because he was a Jew!
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>One year later, we ask you to join the Wiesenthal Center in sending a
>message of solidarity to Daniel's parents in their time of grief and to let
>them know that they are not alone; to assure them as they prepare for
>Daniel's yahrtzeit (annual memorial for a loved one), people of good will
>the world over - Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Moslems and Jews - share in
>the family's grief and in the hope that the values of humanity that guided
>Daniel Pearl in life will ultimately triumph over the forces of hate and
>religious bigotry that took his life and threaten world peace.
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>We invite you to light a virtual candle in Daniel's memory and encourage
>you to ask your community to remember Daniel in your services during the
>weekend of February 21-23rd, which marks the one-year anniversary of his
>death.
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>Thank you.
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>Dr. Yigal Levin
>Dept. of Philosophy and Religion
>University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
>615 McCallie Avenue
>Chattanooga TN 37403-2598
>U.S.A.
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Dr. Yigal Levin
Dept. of Philosophy and Religion
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga TN 37403-2598
U.S.A.
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