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 : The Pope of Islam goes to the UAE and gets played for a fool by Muslim sharpies. My latest in FrontPage:
Pope Francis and the Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayeb, have published “A Document On Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together”
during the Pope’s trip to the United Arab Emirates. It’s as filled with
falsehoods and wishful thinking as one would expect coming from a
practiced deceiver such as el-Tayeb and someone so eager to be deceived
as Pope Francis.
Here’s one of its egregiously false statements:
Terrorism is deplorable and threatens the security of people, be they
in the East or the West, the North or the South, and disseminates
panic, terror and pessimism, but this is not due to religion, even when
terrorists instrumentalize it. It is due, rather, to an accumulation of
incorrect interpretations of religious texts and to policies linked to
hunger, poverty, injustice, oppression and pride. This is why it is so
necessary to stop supporting terrorist movements fuelled by financing,
the provision of weapons and strategy, and by attempts to justify these
movements even using the media. All these must be regarded as
international crimes that threaten security and world peace. Such
terrorism must be condemned in all its forms and expressions.
So are the authoritative sources in Sunni Islam, the schools of Sunni jurisprudence (madhahib),
all incorrect in their interpretations of the Qur’an and Sunnah? Here
is what they say about jihad warfare against non-Muslims:
Shafi’i school: A Shafi’i manual of Islamic law that was
certified in 1991 by the clerics at Al-Azhar University, one of the
leading authorities in the Islamic world, as a reliable guide to Sunni
orthodoxy, stipulates about jihad that “the caliph makes war upon Jews,
Christians, and Zoroastrians…until they become Muslim or pay the
non-Muslim poll tax.” It adds a comment by Sheikh Nuh Ali Salman, a
Jordanian expert on Islamic jurisprudence: the caliph wages this war
only “provided that he has first invited [Jews, Christians, and
Zoroastrians] to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will
not, then invited them to enter the social order of Islam by paying the
non-Muslim poll tax (jizya)…while remaining in their ancestral
religions.” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o9.8).
Of course, there is no caliph today, and hence the oft-repeated claim
that Osama et al are waging jihad illegitimately, as no state authority
has authorized their jihad. But they explain their actions in terms of
defensive jihad, which needs no state authority to call it, and becomes
“obligatory for everyone” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o9.3) if a Muslim
land is attacked. The end of the defensive jihad, however, is not
peaceful coexistence with non-Muslims as equals: ‘Umdat al-Salik
specifies that the warfare against non-Muslims must continue until “the
final descent of Jesus.” After that, “nothing but Islam will be
accepted from them, for taking the poll tax is only effective until
Jesus’ descent” (o9.8).
