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."
To extremists, all roads lead to DAP - Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Saturday, October 19, 2019
Democratic Action Party
Malaysiakini : “He is a political pawn originally in Umno's (failed) effort to
win religiously conservative Malay votes and to further push its
racialised Malay nationalist agenda (targeting Indians as well as the
Chinese).”– Bridget Welsh on Zakir Naik.
COMMENT
| The sustained attacks against DAP is going to have repercussions on
the kind of Malaysia young people are going to inherit. Right now,
elements within and without the Pakatan Harapan government are creating a
narrative that DAP is a “racist” political party out to destabilise
Malay political hegemony.
This, of course, is nothing new. What is
new is that not only has DAP have to contend with its agitated base
since gaining federal power, they also have to be mindful of the
political structures which want them to become the next MCA.
Zakir
Naik, the alleged money-launderer, religious whisperer to radicalised
youths and currently enabled by Harapan’s religious czar, Mujahid Yusof
Rawa, not to mention the prime minister of this country, has the
temerity to sue
elected representatives. He campaigned for Umno telling the Malay
majority to vote for corrupt leaders rather than for non-Muslim leaders
who were not corrupt.
