UN Ambassador Power’s inexplicable comment on Daniel Pearl ‘so shocking it takes the breath away’

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United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power on Monday tweeted a bizarre statement about slain journalist Daniel Pearl and “individual accountability” that offended some and confused others.

Her attempts to explain herself only made matters worse.

Power tweeted:

Pearl, then 38 and the South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, was kidnapped by jihadists in Pakistan four months after 9/11. Nine days later, on Feb. 1, 2002, Pearl was grusomely beheaded by al-Qaida member Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. After being forced to read a prepared statement, his throat was slit and his head sawn off – a scene capture on videotape. The statement said:

My name is Daniel Pearl. I’m a Jewish American from Encino, California, U.S.A. … My father’s Jewish, my mother’s Jewish, I’m Jewish. My family follows Judaism. We’ve made numerous family visits to Israel.

Power’s tweet sparked immediate outrage and confusion. The Legislative and Advocacy Committee of Concerned Woman for America tweeted:

Florida GOP political consultant Rick Wilson took the videotaped Pearl murder to its conclusion:

Still other Twitter users wondered just how far Power wanted to take her “blame the victim” mindset. Here are a few examples:

Another Twitter user summed it up this way:

Power tried to make things all better with a follow-up tweet — but it was just as ludicrous as the first:

It left T. Booker Adams, a business writer for The Blaze, just as flummoxed:

Perhaps the best explanation was offered in the form of a question by another Twitter user:

President Obama appointed Power to fill the vacancy left by Susan Rice, who became national security advisor. Power’s appointment was controversial because of anti-Israeli and anti-American comments she’d made in the past.

It sounds like the tigress hasn’t changed her stripes.

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