Words Cannot Express My Sorrow

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/world/asia/03pstan.html?th&emc=th

I am Pakistani. Both my parents and brother were born, [my parents raised] there. My heart lurches when I read this news. It also makes me so furious that sometimes I resent representing my heritage and culture. How embarrassing it is for those of us that are trying to make a living and find security for our families to hear that our own blood is being shed in the streets we grew up in to harm a few foreigners. Their result of the bombing was killing their neighbors, their own blood people. The blast was near a Danish embassy carrying 110 pounds of explosives. Dangerous to the whole street that homes schools for children. I shudder to even process the thought of the possible victims.

Perlez says , "In March, after Danish newspapers reprinted cartoons satirizing the Prophet Muhammad, Osama bin Laden issued a threat in an audio message posted on the Internet, saying, “Publishing these insulting drawings is the greatest misfortune and the most dangerous.” "

Now I'm not saying I support Bin Laden or anything. But his audio message is probably the only thing I say is quite sensible. Prophet Muhammad is a very very sacred being to the Muslims. You cannot expect less from their retaliation after that. I'm not saying this action in particular was even close to the right response, because violence is never the answer. But ignorance STRIKES AGAIN when idiots like Danish comic artists go and humiliate a religion's highly regarded figure.

Perlez also mentions, "A bomb thrown over the fence of an Italian restaurant in Islamabad on a Saturday night in March when many foreigners were eating on the terrace injured five Americans.."

Tears literally sprang to my eyes, for I remember that night. I was in Pakistan, attending a family wedding. My brother was to leave that same night. When news reached to us that night, I was among my family praying to keep my brother's journey safe...he had to go back to Boston to attend his University. Thankfully he made it without any problem...but I cannot imagine the loss of those who have actually been subjected to the death of a sister, a brother, an uncle, or a mother during these bombings.