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."
Canada imam: “Islam in its essence calls for a division between faith and state”
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Jihad Watch : “Mohamad Jebara is the Chief Imam, resident scholar at the Cordova
Spiritual Education Centre.”
His claim that “Islam in its essence calls
for a division between faith and state” is extraordinary, since
throughout the history of Islam there never was a division between faith
and state until the advent of secular Turkey in the twentieth century —
and secular Turkey was founded upon an explicit rejection of political
Islam, not a development within Islam that allowed for secular
government.
Jebara also says: “The closest to the notion of an ‘Islamic
State’, if there were such a thing, would be humanist democracy” — and
yet there never has been an Islamic humanist democracy in the history of
the world. Here again, Turkey cannot be counted as one, as it was built
upon a rejection of Islamic principles regarding the state, not an
application of them. Mohamad Jebara, Chief Imam, resident scholar, is, in other words,
misleading his readers and giving them false information — unless we are
to believe that Islam in its essence has never been realized in 1,400
years of Islam.
“The delusion of an ‘Islamic State,'” by Mohamad Jebara, Ottawa Sun, October 18, 2015: Being ardent about languages, history and their
psychological impact upon perspective, I cannot help but observe signs
displayed in the background of news footage from within the “Islamic
State” and put these signs and slogans in their religious, historical
and linguistic contexts.
