7th Rangers: Blaming the Victim When it comes to Islamic terror, it’s apparently okay - More than a few journalists and politicians seem to think they had it coming. By Ian Tuttle
Fighting Seventh
The Fighting Rangers On War, Politics and Burning Issues
Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
Blaming the Victim When it comes to Islamic terror, it’s apparently okay - More than a few journalists and politicians seem to think they had it coming. By Ian Tuttle
Thursday, January 08, 2015
National Review : Early in the hit musical Chicago, the “six merry murderesses of Cook County Jail,” by way of explaining why they offed their various lovers, state simply, “He had it coming.”
According to several commentators, Charlie Hebdo had it coming, too.
A brief history: When it came to satirizing Islam, the Paris humor magazine — motto: Journal irresponsable — had been flustering the fainthearted for a decade. In solidarity with Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, in 2006, despite violent protests across the globe, Charlie Hebdo reprinted twelve editorial cartoons depicting the Prophet of Islam under the title, “Mohammed Overwhelmed by Fundamentalists.”
A bold blow for freedom of expression? Not according to then-president Jacques Chirac, who called the decision an “overt provocation.”
Unbowed, in November 2011, the magazine printed an issue “guest-edited” by Mohammed: “100 lashes if you don’t die of laughter!” the cover warned. That day, Charlie Hebdo’s headquarters were firebombed.
Bruce Crumley, writing at Time, found it “hard to have sympathy” for the magazine:
Not
only are [its] Islamophobic antics futile and childish, but they also
openly beg for the very violent responses from extremists their authors
claim to proudly defy in the name of common good.
Ten
months later, the magazine published an issue depicting, on the cover,
an Orthodox Jewish man pushing a Muslim man in a wheelchair to parody
the 2011 French film, The Intouchables, about two men, white
and black, who strike up an unlikely friendship, with, inside, mock
advertisements.
Prime
Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault criticized the publication, as did foreign
minister Laurent Fabius, who called the decision “pour[ing] oil on the
fire.” Sud-Ouest, a daily newspaper, said Charlie Hebdo was “playing with fire,” while Le Figaro decried the images as “silly provocations.”
