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."
How to Beat Your Wife, Or, Beat Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar
Saturday, September 21, 2019
Wife Beating Explained
Jihad Watch : The popular Moroccan singer Adil El Miloudi recently said:
“Whoever doesn’t beat his wife is not a man. In Morocco, this is
normal, anyone can do what he wants with his wife, hit her, kill her.”
El Miloudi’s candor was unusual. One Qur’anic verse that gives Muslim
apologists in the West great grief is 4:34, where a Muslim husband is
told that he may “beat” a wife whose disobedience he fears. There is no
adverb modifying the verb “beat,” yet some apologists insist that the
beating should only be done “lightly,” as if with a small toothbrush
known as a “miswak.”
A video by a Qatari sociologist, Abd Al-Aziz Al-Khazraj Al-Ansari,
provides a televised lesson on the proper way for a Muslim husband to
administer a “beating” to one of his wives. Because the Qur’anic verse
that gives legitimacy to this “beating” does not explain how hard or
soft such a beating can or should be, Al-Ansari believes there is a need
to explain, and to show Muslim men, exactly what kind of “beating” is
permissible.
His Qatari television performance can be found here:
“First, we must understand that the man is the leader of the house. A leader has authorities, just like a company manager.
Al-Ansari unembarassedly insists on male superiority: the man “is
leader of the house.” No dissent is allowed. He is “just like a company
manager” — not a romantic image, but one entirely fitting for the rich
little statelet of Qatar, which is all business. In Qur’an 4:34, a
Muslim husband is given license to “beat” his wife, without offering
parameters to the punishment. The same verse also declares men to be the
guardians of their women, for they are “superior” to them:
“Men have
authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the
other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women
are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded
them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and
send them to beds apart and beat them. Then if they obey you, take no
further action against them. Surely Allah is high, supreme.”
The superiority of men over woman in Islam is not to be found only in
4:34, but is reflected both in the inheritance laws, by which a
daughter receives only half that of a son, and in considering the
testimony by a woman as being worth only half that of a man, which
Muhammad explains in a hadith is because of the “deficiency of her
intelligence.”