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 time before Islam is a time of blackness: that is part of Muslim theology. History has to serve theology.”
From Among the Believers
2. “I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the tenth
century or earlier time disfigured, defaced, you know that they were not
just defaced for fun: that something terrible happened. I feel that the
civilization of that closed world was mortally wounded by those
invasions. And I would like people, as it were, to be more
reverential towards the past, to try to understand it; to preserve it;
instead of living in its ruins. The Old World is destroyed. That has to
be understood. The ancient Hindu India was destroyed.”
“In art and history books, people write of the Muslims
‘arriving’ in India as though they came on a tourist bus and went away
again. The Muslim view of their conquest is a truer one. They speak of
the triumph of faith, the destruction of idols and temples, the loot,
the casting away of locals as slaves.”
From India: A Wounded Civilization
3. “While the Ottomans moved into South-East Europe, the Moghul
invasion of India destroyed much of Hindu and Buddhist civilization
there. The recent destruction by Moslems in Afghanistan of colossal
Buddhist statues is a reminder of what happened to temples and shrines,
on an enormous scale, when Islam took over.”
From India: A Wounded Civilization
4. “India has been a wounded civilization because of Islamic violence:
Pakistanis know this; indeed they revel in it. It is only Indian
Nehruvians like Romila Thapar who pretend that Islamic rule was
benevolent. We should face facts: Islamic rule in India was at least as
catastrophic as the later Christian rule. The Christians created massive
poverty in what was a most prosperous country; the Muslims created a
terrorized civilization out of what was the most creative culture that
ever existed.”
