Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen 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 soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt 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."
Pakistan: Christian stops Muslim boys from teasing Christian girls, gets arrested for blasphemy
Friday, May 27, 2016
The Pakistani blasphemy laws are the cause of a huge number of human
rights abuses and ruined lives. But the āhuman rightsā organizations
canāt be bothered to do anything about them. After all, it isnāt as if
something really important like āIslamophobiaā were being committed. āChristian man arrested for posting blasphemous messages in Pak,ā PTI, May 26, 2016:
Lahore: A Christian man has been arrested in Pakistanās
Punjab province for allegedly posting blasphemous messages on his
Facebook account. Police said they arrested Liaquat Usman yesterday on a complaint that
he had posted blasphemous material on his Facebook account.
According to Usmanās wife, a resident of Nabipura Sheikhupura
district some 50 kilometers from here, her husband had a fight with some
Muslim boys over teasing of girls in the locality. āMy husband stopped some boys from teasing girl students. A couple of days ago the boys manhandled Usman.
Instead of arresting the boys, police arrested Usman saying a
complaint against him has been lodged for committing blasphemy,ā she
said. Initial investigations showed that the blasphemous messages were
posted on the Facebook account of Usman a year ago but the suspect said
he did not post them as someone else tagged them (on his account), said
police official Sarfraz Khan.
āThe man who allegedly tagged the blasphemous post on Usmanās
Facebook account is living abroad,ā he said, adding further
investigation is underway and an FIR will be registered in the light of
its findingā¦.
