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 : As everyone knows by now, Boris Johnson, no longer the British Foreign
Secretary, but still a prominent MP and force in the Tory Party as well
as, again, a journalist for The Telegraph, recently delivered himself of
his views on the burqa/niqab. Here is some of what he wrote:
If you say that it is weird and bullying to expect women to cover their faces, then I totally agree.
I would go further and say that it is absolutely ridiculous that people should choose to go around looking like letter boxes.
And he added that “a female student turned up at school or at a
university lecture looking like a bank robber” he would ask her to
remove it to speak to her. Mr Johnson, who quit as Foreign Secretary last month over Brexit,
said it was “sensible” to be able to read each others facial expressions
and humans “must be able to see each other’s faces.”
“He said that individual businesses or branches of Government
should be free to enforce a dress code that enables their workers to
best interact with customers – which could involve removing the veils.
And now a respected Muslim scholar, Taj Hargey, the imam at Oxford
Islamic Congregation, has taken part in the debate. Hargey has been in
the news many times before for his moderate stance. He once so angered
the Muslim Weekly that the paper declared him to be a “Qadiani” only
pretending as a Muslim (“Qadiani” is the pejorative name for Ahmadis,
whom other Muslims do not regard as real Muslims) — and such a charge
made him a potential target for attack. Hargey, a Sunni Muslim, sued the publication, and won a high five-figure settlement for defamation.
Taj Hargey, the imam at Oxford Islamic Congregation, said Mr Johnson should “not apologise for telling the truth.’
“The burka and niqab are hideous tribal ninja-like garments that are pre-Islamic, non-Koranic and therefore un-Muslim.” “Although this deliberate identity-concealing contraption is
banned at the Kaaba in Mecca it is permitted in Britain, thus
precipitating security risks, accelerating vitamin D deficiency,
endorsing gender-inequality, and inhibiting community cohesion.”
“In reality it is a toxic patriarchy controlling women.” “Is it any wonder that many younger women have internalised this
poisonous chauvinism by asserting that it is their human right to hide
their faces? Johnson did not go far enough.”
Boris Johnson has gone off, unfazed, and unapologetic, on holiday abroad.
