Danny Pearl's writing is his legacy. As his friend Daniel Bellow, who sat across from Pearl at the Eagle, says: "To think that he's dead for nothing, for ideology, is just more than I can bear."

I don't believe that Islam can survive while it justifies this act or the murders on September 11, 2001 and earlier. It will become the enemy of all people who believe in real tolerance, which is different from excusing outrages, and in the real God, who does not reward evil with good.