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."
“Christians and Muslims must join hands….Let Christians and Muslims never again regard each other as enemies”
Sunday, October 13, 2019
The Dumfuk Robert George
Jihad Watch : As is always the case with exhortations such as this one, note how
one-sided it is.
Robert George tells Christians not to hate Muslims,
which is a very good thing for him to tell them, but he never says a
word about trying to get Muslims not to hate Christians. As far as this
article is concerned, the onus is entirely on the Christian side to
build bridges and make peace.
One may argue that George is a Christian,
and so he doesn’t presume to preach to Muslims, and that’s all very
well, but where are his “dialogue” partners issuing similar exhortations
to Muslims to regard Christians as friends and allies, and to lay aside
direct and explicit Qur’anic commands not do so?
Here is that command: “O you who have believed, do not take the Jews
and the Christians as allies. They are allies of one another. And
whoever is an ally to them among you – then indeed, he is of them.
Indeed, Allah guides not the wrongdoing people. (Qur’an 5:51)
Does
Robert George even know that this verse exists? Does he think there are
no Muslims who take it seriously? The renowned and eminently mainstream
Qur’an commentator Ibn Kathir explains it this way: “Allah forbids His
believing servants from having Jews and Christians as friends, because
they are the enemies of Islam and its people, may Allah curse them.”
Will Robert George’s dialogue partners tell him what they’re doing to
mitigate the force of this passage and other anti-Christian material in
the Qur’an and Hadith? Here is some information on Hamza Yusuf from Discover the Networks:
