anotherlook

While India is desperately attempting to use “diplomacy” and restraint, in dealing with Pakistan regarding the Mumbai attacks, Pakistan’s Interior Ministry Chief Rehman Malik is using arrogance, denial and resistance in the investigation of what really happened in Mumbai. 

While India has asked Pakistan to hand over the suspects and dismantle the terror network they say is based in Pakistan, so far this has not happened.  Malik has said “Nobody can put pressure on us, we are a sovereign state and we will act according to our law.”  Malik has consistently asked for evidence from India, evidence that would show that the criminal element that was, at least partly responsible for the attacks, is inside the border of Pakistan. 

As of this date, India has given Pakistan the most detailed evidence that ties the militants to Pakistan.  This evidence included material from the interrogation of the lone gunmen that survived the attacks, details of conversations that were held between the gunmen and their handlers in Pakistan, weapons and data from satellite phones.  Everything leads back to “elements” in Pakistan. 

The hope is that Pakistan will review this information in a timely manner and share the results with India so that the perpetrators of this horrible crime can be prosecuted.  However, Pakistan has repeatedly said that they will try any suspects, in the attacks, in their own courts.  It is hard for me to believe that Pakistan will do justice to this cause because in the wake of the attacks and the tensions that followed, Pakistan, in its arrogance, redeployed many troops away from the Afghan border to the India borders in a dramatic show of force towards India, similarly to Israel’s show of force to Gaza. 

The U.S. has sent a string of envoys to the region since the Mumbai attacks to help defuse the growing tensions.  Pakistan’s leaders have gone from one extreme to the other, from confrontational statements to conciliatory ones even though India, of late, has been careful not to blame the attacks on the Pakistani government but on the “elements” in Pakistan”. 

Along the lines of denial, Pakistan has said it has no record of Kasab, the lone survivor of the attack, as a Pakistani citizen, as though that erases the possibility that Kasab could have simply crossed the border and aligned himself with the militant element in Pakistan.

When I first started looking for work on the internet, I got scammed by a site out of
India.  I worked my behind off for this site and never got paid, was never contacted, after my initial payment to them.  I was truly upset about this for a long while – in fact, I am still upset about it.   

I realized, after the fact, that this site had scammed many people.  Shortly after they scammed me, which was in September of last year, they were attacked.  Now I could have found happiness in the fact that this happened to them simply because of how the people there are scamming so many people, but I didn’t and now I am on their side in this confrontation with Pakistan.  How I can be on the side of India in this cause, I’m not sure.  I guess for me right is right and wrong is wrong and Pakistan is showing just how irrational and arrogant they are. 

Corruption, control, lies, violence, arrogance, the bully mentality, all these different, extremely negative attitudes I see coming from the Middle East are amazing to me.  Who do they think they are in this world?  Why do they feel so strongly that they can treat people in any manner and the people they are treating in this, all too negative way, are suppose to stay intimidated by their show of military force. 

In the lands where religion is so strong, the violence is equally as strong.  What religion teaches violence, corruption and lies?  I feel as though Jesus is looking down on them and shaking his head at the sacrifice he made, in a show of love, in the very countries that hate rules the hearts and minds of the people so perversely. 

Truthfully, I am having a hard time understanding how violence can rule in the lands Jesus walked.  It is as if Jesus never existed in the hearts and minds of His people.  I say what a shame, because the lessons of Jesus are powerful, they speak to my soul, my spirit and I am touched by the love he must have felt for His people, a love even He was willing to share with the masses.  

All of the people in the Middle East need to recognize the gift of love and unity of spirit passed on through Jesus Christ and end the hate and violence because there is, indeed, a better way to live; a way of life free of violence, revenge, war, hate, lies, deceit and control. 

And that’s the way I see it!!