War and Hate

after learning about the evil things happened during the world war II i decided to bash people who supprt war. war destroys everything; your shelter and eventually, your life. you'll realize that your relationship with other people is starting to freeze. you're beginning to doubt all actions, even if it's done by a family member. you're beginning to hate. hate for those who attacked your country. hate for those who started the war. hate for those who didn't help you during the war. pure hatred.

i thought about the topic supposedly i should have been writing right now but i was surfing in the internet this morning and found an article and the video of DANIEL PEARL.

maybe most of you are not aware who he is. he is a an american jew journalist who was kidnapped and beheaded by a militant group who called themselves: The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty. they're demanding-up to now-that the united states should release the pakistani terror detainees and the release of the halted shipment of f-16 fighter jets to the pakistani government.

daniel pearl's wife was pregnant that time. his son was born few months after his death. adam is his first child, and he didn't see him. daniel pearl was handcuffed and beheaded by cutting his neck first by a knife. slow and painful death was executed by those people who sought sovereignty for their own government. sovereignty.

what is sovereignty? it is the freedom from external control. those militant group wants their country free from american control. in short they want freedom. funny and pathetic.

freedom. they didn't even give freedom to daniel pearl so why are they asking for such sacred thing. after all, united states is not really in control. the thing is, the pakistani government think like americans that's why they thought united states is in control.

i hate war. everyone knows i didn't like Bush's actions. war is not the answer for everything. violence is not the answer for everything. those militant groups knew that too. their children are dying because of war, because of violence so why are they also doing those things? why are they killing innocent people. people who can't fight them. people like daniel pearl, the young american soldiers shot and burned, the beheaded iraqi nationalist guard, the beheaded russian diplomat, other russian diplomats who were shot, and many more. people who just can't defend themselves.

their reason would be; because it also happened to them. then, why are they also killing each other? is vengeance the answer to violence?

in the philippines, there's also a latin-american who was beheaded by the abu sayyaf. abu sayyaf also beheaded a filipino soldier. the video footage was shown to the american soldiers. another pathetic move from the philippine government with their pathetic reason: to enrage the american soldiers. whereas they decided that the american soldiers should not participate in any combats.

in indonesia, christians are beheaded. gender and age won't matter. last october 30, 2005, three christian girls -ages 15-17- were beheaded on their way to the school. in sulawesi, thousand christians were killed because of a rumor that a muslim girl was raped by a christian. may 2005, a nearby town in tentena was bombed. it's a predominantly christian town. twenty-two people were killed. there were also two 17-year old girls shot days after the burning.

i am not assuming who's the real victim in this christian-muslim war but i hope muslims around the world stop claiming that they are being discriminated and that they are the only victims in this situation.

jews were almost wiped out during the world war II. few of them are left and up to now they're are still discriminated not only by muslims but also by christians.

christians are also discriminated by many different religions. jews bashed christians since Jesus' time. atheists branded christians as monkey-worshippers. muslims bashed christians because they considered Jesus as a prophet not a God. the movie; passion of the Christ, was banded in many islamic countries because of the law that prophet's life should not be featured in any movie or film. jews described it as anti-semitic.

atheists are protesting that the "in God we trust" in dollar bills should be removed. prayers in public schools should not be implemented. muslim militants want christians and jews wiped out of this world. aryans want jews wiped out.

in many dominant christian countries like philippines, christians are bashing each other. the roman catholics and the protestants are still arguing who is the true christian. other christians are also destroying each other in national television. many preachers declared themselves as the Messiah and those who won't follow them will go to hell.

all of this, started because of war and hate. why don't we just live our lives and help each other. we can't force everyone to believe what we believe. we shouldn't hurt someone whose faith is different from us. we should stop hating each other.

i'm a Christian and for Christians out there i just want to remind you: Jesus is not forcing himself to anyone.