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."
Raymond Ibrahim : Egypt’s leading authorities have reinstated a notoriously “radical”
cleric and hate preacher to the pulpit (minbar), despite strong
opposition.
According to Arab
Weekly, “The Egyptian Ministry of Religious Endowments, which controls
the mosques, gave Yasser Burhami, the deputy head of the Salafist Call, the
umbrella organisation of Salafi movements, approval to deliver sermons before
Friday prayers at the Wise Caliphs Mosque in Alexandria.”
“Everybody is shocked at the decision to allow this man to preach
at the mosques,” said
Saad al-Zunt, the head of the Strategic Studies Centre, a local think-tank.
“Salafists adhere to a strict version of Islam,” the report explains. “They do not believe in women’s rights and
call for women to be clothed from head to toe. The Salafists adopt a hostile
stance towards non-Muslims, saying they are not full citizens.”
Indeed, Sheikh Yasser al-Burhami has authored numerous
fatwas—edicts based on Islamic scriptures—that demand hate and hostility for
non-Muslims, most specifically the nation’s largest and most visible minority, the
Christian Copts, whom Burhami has referred to as “a
criminal and infidel minority,” one that he
regularly invokes “Allah’s
curse” on.
For example and in keeping with the doctrine of al-wala’ w’al
bara’ (“Loyalty and Enmity”), Burhami has called on all Muslims to hate all
non-Muslims—going as far as to say that, although a Muslim man is permitted to
marry Christian or Jewish women (ahl al-kitab), he must make sure he
still hates
them in his heart—and show them this hate—because they are infidels;
otherwise he risks compromising his Islam.
