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."
All cultures are not equal, and when cultural practices are being
supported by a religion, they are more resistant to change. Israaās
murder didnāt just involve her brother. It was compounded by the
involvement of other family members, too, which is characteristic of
honor violence.
In the Sunni Sharia manual Umdat al-Salik, section o1.2 lists justifiable
cases for murder, i.e., those for which the murderer is not to be
punished. #4 specifies that a parent may kill his or her child without
suffering any punishment:
A child or insane person, under any circumstances
A Muslim for killing a non-Muslim
A Jewish or Christian subject of the Islamic state for killing an apostate from Islam
father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspringās offspring
In like manner in Shia Islam, the Grand Ayatollah Khomeini, who was a supreme Shia religious authority, stated in his book A Clarification of Questions (Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1984, p. 429) that in order to be punished, the murderer must not be a father or grandfather of the victim.
In the case of Israa, according to the Jerusalem Post:
