7th Rangers: Post-Caliphate ISIS - The ISIS penchant for high-profile cruelty is likely to continue, even against Muslims who already account for most of its victims.
Fighting Seventh
The Fighting Rangers On War, Politics and Burning Issues
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."
Post-Caliphate ISIS - The ISIS penchant for high-profile cruelty is likely to continue, even against Muslims who already account for most of its victims.
BCF : The disintegration of the Islamic State’s Caliphate — which once included large portions of Iraq and Syria — may be a strategic defeat for ISIS, yet the jihadi terrorist group is very much alive.
Its ideology, tactics and objectives have not altered. ISIS remains steeped in the ideology of “salafiya jihadiyah” (Salafi jihad), which requires every Muslim to wage “holy war” in some fashion against the “infidel.”
The ideological vision
of ISIS and the extremist acts which flow from that vision, such as its
iconoclastic destruction of graves, sacred shrines, and cultural sites,
closely resembles that of Sunni Wahhabi
extremism with origins in Saudi Arabia, the source of the ISIS's
ideological conflict against the values shared by freedom loving
nations.
An example of this ideological affinity is ISIS' destruction
of the alleged graves of the Prophets Daniel and Jonah in the area of
Mosul, Iraq in July 2014. As early as 1802, Wahhabi marauders acted
similarly, destroying many shrines, graves and sacred sites in Shia
Islam's holy city of Karbala, while massacring hundreds of Shia Muslims in the process.
This behavior closely resembles
the comportment of ISIS operatives throughout their Caliphate
territories in Iraq, where they destroyed Christian churches in Mosul,
Iraq and in Syria where they demolished ancient ruins in Palmyra.
