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."
Jihad Watch : Historical revisionism is designed to influence current policy; Akbar
Ahmed’s ongoing whitewashes of Islamic al-Andalus are clearly meant to
break down resistance to the mass Muslim migrant influx into Europe
today.
In this piece, he claims that Abdur Rahman I’s “dynasty more than
any other came to represent the idea of pluralist society in Europe.” In reality, as I show in my new book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS,
Muslim Spain was anything but pluralist; it was miserable to live as a Christian there. Christians could never be sure that they would not be
harassed. One contemporary account tells of priests being “pelted with
rocks and dung” by Muslims while on the way to a cemetery.
The
also suffered severe economic hardship. Paul Alvarus, a ninth- century
Christian in Córdoba, complained about the “unbearable tax” that
Muslims levied on Christians. Nor could Christians say anything about
their lot, because it was proscribed by Islamic law, and criticizing
Islam, Muhammad, or the Qur’an in any manner was a death-penalty
offense.
In 850, Perfectus, a Christian priest, engaged a group of Muslims in
conversation about Islam; his opinion of the conquerors’ religion was
not positive. For this, Perfectus was arrested and put to death. Not
long thereafter, Joannes, a Christian merchant, was said to have invoked
Muhammad’s name in his sales pitch. He was lashed and given a lengthy
prison sentence. Christian and Muslim sources contain numerous records
of similar incidents in the early part of the tenth century. Around 910,
in one of many such episodes, a woman was executed for proclaiming that
“Jesus was God and that Muhammad had lied to his followers.”
Akbar Ahmed doesn’t tell you any of that, because if the public knew
those facts and others, they wouldn’t favor the policies he wants the
West to adopt. Don’t be bamboozled. Preorder The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS by clicking here. “Abdur Rahman I: The beginning of the glory of Muslim Spain,” by Akbar Ahmed, Daily Times, June 16, 2018 :
