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 : Donald Trump’s infamous assertion “Islam hates us,” which he made
over three years ago while campaigning for president, continues to anger
his opponents. Most recently, Democratic presidential hopefuls Julián
Castro and Bernie Sanders cited it in their efforts to court Muslim
votes in Houston.
Soon after being introduced by his Muslim campaign
manager, Faiz
Shakir, Sanders said, “We must speak out when we have a president and an
administration who believe — and I quote — that ‘Islam hates us.’”
Here
is what Trump said in March 2016: “I think Islam hates us. There’s
something there that — there’s a tremendous hatred there. There’s a tremendous
hatred. We have to get to the bottom of it. There’s an unbelievable hatred of
us.”
That
seems to be the difference between Trump and the Democrats: the latter, in
typical head-in-sand fashion—or just to garner votes—reject the “Islamophobic”
claim on principle, whereas the president at least acknowledges that there’s a
problem, one that “we have to get to the bottom of.”
So
let’s do just that—get to the bottom of this “tremendous hate.” For starters, the source of this hate is not in
those factors liberals/leftists always cite whenever Muslims lash out (and their
actions actually get reported); it’s not a byproduct of “grievances,” foreign
or domestic US policies, Israel, or “blasphemous” cartoons.
The
hate, rather, is a direct byproduct of mainstream Islamic teaching—and has been
for nearly fourteen centuries.
According to the ancientIslamic doctrine of al-wal’a waal-bara’, or “loyalty and enmity”—which is well grounded in Islamic
scriptures, well sponsored by Islamic authorities, and well manifested all
throughout Islamic history and contemporary affairs—Muslims must hate and
oppose everyone who is not Muslim, including family members. (The importance of this doctrine is such that
al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri wrote a nearly 60 page treatise on al-wal’a
wa al-bara’ in The Al Qaeda Reader, pp. 63-115.)
Koran
60:4 is the cornerstone verse of this doctrine and speaks for itself: “You
[Muslims] have a good example in Abraham and those who followed him, for they
said to their people, ‘We disown you and the idols which you worship besides
Allah. We renounce you: enmity and hate shall reign between us
until you believe in Allah alone’” (Koran 60:4, emphasis added).
Koran58:22 praises Muslims who fight and kill their own non-Muslim family members:
“You shall find none who believe in Allah and the Last Day on friendly terms
with those who oppose Allah and His Messenger—even if they be their fathers,
their sons, their brothers, or their nearest kindred.” According
to standard Islamic exegesis, this verse refers to a number of Muslims who
slaughtered their own non-Muslim kin (one slew his non-Muslim father, another
his non-Muslim brother, a third—Abu Bakr, the first revered caliph of Islamichistory—tried to slay his non-Muslim son, and Omar, the second righteous
caliph, slaughtered his relatives). Popular commentator Ibn Kathir wrote
that Allah was immensely pleased by their unwavering zeal for his cause and
rewarded them with paradise.
In
fact, verses that support the divisive doctrine of “loyalty and enmity”
permeate the Koran (see also 4:89, 4:144, 5:51, 5:54, 6:40, 9:23, and
60:1). There is one caveat, captured by Koran 3:28: when Muslims are in a
position of weakness, they may pretend to befriend non-Muslims, as long as the hate carries on in
their hearts. (Read here for several recent examples of
Muslims living for years at peace and in friendship with non-Muslims, but then
violently turning on them once they became stronger.)
