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."
Italy: Muslim migrant drives car toward church in crowded pedestrian area “to feel closer to Allah”
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Jihad Watch : He had already been deported from France and wasn’t supposed to be in
Italy, either, but there are just so many such people to keep track of.
In any case, he clearly viewed this attempt at vehicular jihad — he
crashed his car into the concrete barriers placed in front of the church
precisely in order to stop jihad attacks of this kind — as a holy act:
“The young Algerian, during the validation hearing, asserted ‘that he
was not in a position to know why he had done that except to feel closer
to Allah, which would have been made easier by the taking of a drug.'”
And: Furthermore, “the arrested during the hearing has continually
chanted and recited an Arab litany in the name of Allah.” No doubt after he serves part or all of his brief sentence, he will
become a loyal, stable, productive Italian citizen, no? Celebrate
diversity!
“Algerian drives car towards the Shrine of Pompeii: ‘I did it in the
name of Allah,'” translated from “Algerino si lancia con un’auto verso
il Santuario di Pompei: «L’ho fatto nel nome di Allah»,” by Titti
Beneduce, Corriere Della Serra, March 18, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Investigated for terrorism, he crashed against the barriers placed in
front of the church. At the hearing, he played a litany in Arabic. The
man is 22 years old: expelled from France and by the police chief of
Cagliari, but he was still in our country.
He crossed the street via Bartolo Longo crowded with pedestrians,
then crashed against the cement planters arranged to protect the
Basilica of Pompeii from terrorist attacks. Othman Jridi, a 22-year-old
Algerian, landed in Italy after being expelled from France. He was
expelled again by the police chief of Cagliari, but still remained in
our country. He was stopped by traffic police after a brief escape. The
autocratic judge of Torre, Annunziata Fernanda Iannone — expert on
international terrorism and author of a monograph on foreign terrorist
fighters — not only validated his detention, but, accepting the request
of the prosecutor, also ordered precautionary custody in prison.
For the
offenses that he was charged with (theft of a car and false statements
to a public official), the Algerian was tried quickly: the lawyer who
represented him, Enrica Visconti, asked for an abbreviated sentence and
therefore, instead of the four-year and one-month sentence requested by
the public prosecutor, Jridi was sentenced to two and a half years; a
punishment, however, that was very severe compared to the small offenses
with which he was charged. The documents were sent to the
counter-terrorism pool of the Naples Public Prosecutor’s Office for the
necessary details.
