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 : In 2017, Human Rights Watch was complaining that the Saudi crackdown
on the Muslim Brotherhood had entangled a number of clerics including
Sheikh Ayed al-Qarni.
“These apparently politically motivated arrests are
another sign that Mohammad bin Salman has no real interest in improving
his country’s record on free speech and the rule of law,” said Sarah
Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “Saudis’
alleged efforts to tackle extremism are all for show if all the
government does is jail people for their political views.”
Here were some of those views on display back when CAIR was advocating for Qarni.
The head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR) vows to complain to U.S. Department of Homeland Security
officials after they blocked a radical Saudi cleric from entering the country this week to attend a national Islamist conference in Chicago. Sheikh Ayed al-Qarni was
scheduled to speak twice during the Muslim American-Society
(MAS)/Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) national convention Dec.
22-25.
But a statement released
during the convention expressed “the unpleasant and saddening news”
that al-Qarni had been removed from his flight from Saudi Arabia despite
having a visa from the U.S. embassy, and that he appears to be on the
U.S. “no-fly list.” Al-Qarni is described as “one of our great speakers”
and as someone known “for his logical discourse and balanced views, he
promotes understanding and collaboration between all people, regardless
of their faith, background, or language.”
During a 2005 sermon flagged
by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), al-Qarni called
the jihad against American forces in Fallujah “a source of pride …
downing their planes, destroying equipment, slaughtering them, taking
them hostage, and proclaiming ‘Allah Akhbar’ from the mosques, and the
worshippers and the preacher cursing them in their prayers, and then
come others begging for forgiveness, and requesting a dialogue and a
ceasefire and negotiations. Who can say even one word against this true Jihad against these colonialist occupiers?” [Emphasis added]
