While the world is fixated on Israel, tensions rise between India and Pakistan, thanks to aggressive steps taken by the latter. Pakistan is even deploying its troops from "fighting" the Taliban and al-Qaeda -- fellow Muslims deemed heroes by many Pakistanis, including the government -- to face the real enemy: polytheistic Hindus who dare want to ensure that the Mumbai attacks are never repeated. Even Mumbai Muslims are blaming the Pakistani government of inaction towards terrorism and goading India to "destroy all militant camps operating in Pakistan."
"Tensions Rise as Pakistan Moves to Redeploy Troops," by Zahid Hussain and Matthew Rosenberg for the Wall Street Journal, December 28:
Tensions between India and Pakistan rose over the weekend as Pakistan said it was redeploying an unspecified number of troops from the fight against Islamic militants in the country's northwest, a move decried by Indian officials as needlessly provocative."No Islamic militants to fight." Does this mean that there are no jihadists there, or that there are, but Pakistan simply has no intentions to fight them in the first place? Considering Pakistan's track-record of duplicitous behavior, the question is valid.Pakistani officials wouldn't say where the troops were headed nor provide estimates of how many soldiers were on the move. But a Pakistani military spokesman suggested they will be redeployed to face Indian forces on the country's eastern border, calling the troop movements and the restriction of leave "defensive and precautionary steps" prompted by souring relations with India.
Another Pakistani security official said some of the country's soldiers were being moved from northwestern regions where there were no Islamic militants to fight, or where both sides were snowed in.
Both officials insisted the redeployment was modest and won't affect Pakistan's campaign against the Taliban and al Qaeda, which control wide swaths of territory along Pakistan's northwestern border with Afghanistan.[...]In other words, the Pakistani government can't or won't root out the jihadists in Pakistan -- nor will it allow others who are directly suffering from jihadi terror to try.But with tensions between India and Pakistan high in the weeks since terrorists armed with guns and grenades rampaged through Mumbai, leaving 171 people dead, Pakistani officials said Friday that the military was sharply curtailing leave for its soldiers and moving some away from the northwest, where they are battling Taliban and al Qaeda fighters.
Diplomats and political analysts said Pakistan's moves appeared intended to warn India from attempting any kind of retaliatory strike against militant targets inside Pakistan -- and not a mobilization for war between the nuclear-armed neighbors.[...]
In India, Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Saturday it was unfortunate that a "sort of war hysteria" has been created in Pakistan."I appeal to Pakistan and Pakistani leaders: do not unnecessarily try to create tension," he was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India news agency. "Do not try to deflect the issue. A problem has to be tackled face to face[."]...
Note that Pakistan, after having assured "full co-operation" in investigating 11/26 attacks, and have found ample evidence of its own involvement, has made a complete U turn turning "full co-operation" into "full hostility". Also, remember Pakistan, with Saudi Arabia, enjoys the status of "ally" in the "war-on-terror". Then again, Bush's war on terror was targeted AT TERRROR, i.e. Saddam, not AT TERRORISTS. Much like the bailout to SAVE capitalism.
Coming back to Pakistan, the jizya flows thicker and faster than ever for which, Americans can thank their POTUS and Sec of state.
How can a country with only one export, terror, survive ?
Umm..Oh Oh!I know....somebody can keep funding them so that they can continue to play terrorist terrorist?
Bingo! And who are the idiots who approved 6 million pounds and $500 million recently.....yup....you're right....the brits and the yanks.....arses...
I hope India starts to defend herself now that the pak will again be the aggressor.
Over at Jerusalem Post, which I visited before I came here as I do early each morning, I was reading the talkbacks to some of the coverage of Israel's brilliant assault on Jihad Fortress Gaza.
One poster remarked succinctly, with withering sarcasm: "Peace is when Arabs kill Jews. War is when Jews defend themselves."
With a trifling change of wording, this observation may be applied to Mumbai and India's response, as seen from the Pakistani Muslim POV:
"Peace is when Muslims kill Hindus. War is when Hindus defend themselves".
The aphorism may be expressed even more generally: 'Peace is when Muslims kill non-Muslims. War is when non-Muslims defend themselves'.
And if one understands Islamspeak, one realizes that this is EXACTLY the way Muslims see it.
Nothing that Muslims do to non-Muslims is ever 'war'.
Only non-Muslim resistance to Islam, whatever form it takes, be it refusal to convert to Islam upon hearing the 'invitation' (which always carries a thinly veiled threat), or refusing to permit the building of a mosque or madrasa (all those pesky land-use regulations!), right up to the hammering of the jihad nests that Israel is conducting in Gaza, is WAR and a cause of war.
Here is Bassam Tibi describing the Muslim view of 'peace' and 'war':
"At its core, Islam is a religious mission to all humanity. Muslims are religiously obliged to disseminate the Islamic faith throughout the world. "We have sent you forth to all mankind" (Q. 34:28).
"If non-Muslims submit to conversion or subjugation, this call (da'wa) can be pursued peacefully.
"If they do not, Muslims are *obliged* {my emphasis added - dda} to wage war against them.
"In Islam, peace requires that non-Muslims submit to the call of Islam, either by converting or by accepting the status of a religious minority (dhimmi) and paying the imposed poll tax, jizya.
"World peace, the final stage of the da'wa, is reached only with the conversion or submission of all mankind to Islam...
"Muslims believe that expansion through war is not aggression but a fulfillment of the Qur'anic command to spread Islam as a way to peace.
"The resort to force to disseminate Islam is not war (harb), a word that is used [by Muslims] only to describe the use of force by non-Muslims.
"Islamic wars are not hurub (the plural of harb) but rather futuhat, acts of "opening" the world to Islam and expressing Islamic jihad. {Muslims, it appears, invented newspeak long before Orwell - dda}.
"Relations between dar al-Islam, the home of peace, and dar al-harb, the world of unbelievers, nevertheless take place in a state of war, according to the Qur'an and to the authoritative commentaries of Islamic jurists.
"Unbelievers who stand in the way, creating obstacles for the da'wa, are blamed for this state of war, for the da'wa can be pursued peacefully if others submit to it.
"In other words, those who resist Islam cause wars and are responsible for them.
"Only when Muslim power is weak is "temporary truce" (hudna) allowed (Islamic jurists differ on the definition of "temporary").”
- Tibi, Bassam (1996). 'War and Peace in Islam', in Terry Nardin (ed.) The Ethics of War and Peace: Religious and Secular Perspectives (pp. 129-131). Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. This essay can also be read in Andrew Bostom's 'Legacy of Jihad', pp. 326 -342.
The subject of Islamspeak is further explored - by sarcastic non-Muslims - in the articles you will find at these links:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/012406.php
http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=CB861004-4459-4E25-932B-6029CBC8BA9D
From the article:"Pakistan's moves appeared intended to warn India from attempting any kind of retaliatory strike against militant targets inside Pakistan".
In other words, Pakistan is scared stiff that India might be inspired by what those sneaky Jooz have just pulled off in Gaza.
Perhaps it's time for Indian non-Muslim Air Force pilots to start quietly taking lessons from the Israeli AF, if they have not already been doing so...
This means that Pakistan is moving it's human shields from protecting the Taliban. We now have free reign to unleash the UAV's upon the Taliban.
Pakistan is leaving enough troops near the Afghan border to be able to shoot at any Americans attempting hot pursuit against Taliban fleeing back to sanctuary in Pakistan.
It seems increasingly likely to me that the Pakistani military and AlQaeda jointly collaborated in carrying out the Mumbai attacks, in order to create a useful diversion that would allow them to disengage from mutually disadvantageous combat with each other.
Any fighting the Pakistani military has done against Taliban and AlQaeda has been reluctantly done, under US pressure. Therefore both have a common interest in ceasing combat against each other, and instead jointly fighting the Infidels.
India hasn't even massed any troops near the Pakistan border, yet the Pakistanis are still nevertheless determinedly moving troops away from the Taliban-dominated Northwestern areas over to the Indian border.
Meanwhile, that swine Zbigniew Brzezinski shamelessly used his daughter Mika's morning news show to pitch his pro-Taliban views. Video Link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28365690#28365690
He ends by saying that Mumbai was caused by India not doing enough for its Muslim minority. But the attackers were all from Pakistan! Brzezinski spins reality according to his own personal prejudices and slanted agenda.
Pakhtun freedom fighters are not taliban. Taliban was an ISI creation. ISI still supports Hekmatyar and Mullah Omar, who are the taliban. Pakhtun freedom fighters want freedom from the Punjabistani oppression. It is good that Punjabistani army is on the Indian border. Once the snow melts in NFWP, Pakhtun and Balochi freedom fighters will be free.
Peshawar and Quetta will fall soon.
spot on Naresh. It is time for the Indian Army to start creating trouble inside Pakistan. A seperate Balochistan, Pashtun, give the Sindhi's autonomy and the paki state will collapse and wither away.
Also, the Indian Army must be careful against what is a clear provocation by the pakis. I think the pakis are trying to start war with India so that there unpopular government/military can divert troops and attention away from the FATA and western tribal areas. Nothing uniteS the pakis more than war against India. India needs to build up her military arsenal and then strike deep into pakistan. We must build up our strength levels to the point where we can destroy pakistans military and offensive capabilities in a first strike. Very possible if the US decides to stop 'giving' free weapons to the evil pakis.