Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen 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 soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt 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."
Terroristan/Pakistan: another Christian woman and her disabled husband remain jailed for blasphemy and await execution
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Shagufta Kousar and Shafqat Masih were sentenced to death on 4th April 2014
Jihad Watch : āFollowing the joyous news of Christian Asia Bibiās release from jail,ā there is another worrying case: āthe plight of a Christian Pakistani couple who have also been facing execution in a Pakistan prison for five years.ā
The couple, Shagufta Kousar and Shafqat Masih, stated that āthe
motive behind the allegationsā of blasphemy against them was that their
accusers āwanted revenge after a minor quarrel that took place between
their children and their neighbours 6 months prior.ā Accusations of
blasphemy against Christians are routine and are taken on the word of
Muslims who often lie as revenge during a dispute. Their word being
automatically taken as truth shows the inferior status of Christians in
Pakistan.
False accusations of blasphemy are merely a means to subjugate and persecute Christians. Fake evidence is
also sometimes planted against Christians. For example, a village
cleric planted pages of the Quran among burnt pages in the bag of a
Christian girl and then pinned the blamed the girl. She is now being
held in prison for blasphemy amid threats of violent mobs trying to kill
her. The clerics own act of desecrating the Quran but setting up the
young girl caused 600 Christians to flee for their lives to escaped
enraged Muslims. As for rest of the girlās family; they will never be
able to return to their home village and will remain in hiding
indefinitely.
Shafqat Misih is currently paralysed from the waist down
following an accident in 2004 when he fractured his spine and is also
suffering from depression. Moreover painful sores that he has developed
since his incarceration are causing a rapid decline in his health which
could lead to a premature death.
After Asia Bibiās blasphemy death sentence was overturned, Pakistani
Christians feared even greater persecution and more violence against
them. The case of Bibi became high profile in the media with over
400-thousand people globally signing a petition for her to be released,
but let us not forget the countless other Christians in Pakistan who are
rotting away in cloistered Pakistani jail cells under harsh conditions. āPakistanās other woman blasphemy victim and her disabled husband still
await an appeal against their blasphemy convictionā, by Wilson Chowdhry,
British Pakistani Christians, May 12, 2019:
