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."
University of Florida professor Ken Chitwood wrote Wednesday in the Associated Press’
commentary section, “The Conversation,” that “the Islamic State tries
to boost its legitimacy by hijacking a historic institution.” He then
provided a drive-by overview of the history of various Islamic
caliphates, so whitewashed as to rival the Washington Post’s
famous characterization of Islamic State (ISIS) caliph Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi in misleading duplicity.
Even worse, Chitwood tells us that
“as a scholar of global Islam, every time I teach my ‘Introduction to
Islam’ class,” he teaches this nonsense to his hapless University of
Florida students. No surprise there, given the fact that most
universities today are little more than Antifa recruitment centers.
“Under Umar,” Chitwood writes
blandly, “the caliphate expanded to include many regions of the world
such as the lands of the former Byzantine and Sassanian empires in Asia
Minor, Persia and Central Asia.”
Yeah, uh, Professor Chitwood,
how exactly did that “expansion” occur? In reality, beyond the
pseudo-academic whitewash and fantasy that Chitwood purveys, the
caliphates always behaved much like the Islamic State, because they were
all working from the same playbook. The true, bloody history of the
caliphates can be found, detailed from Islamic sources, in the only
complete history of 1,400 years of jihad violence, The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS.
The word khalifa means
“successor”; the caliph in Sunni Islamic theology is the successor of
Muhammad as the military, political, and spiritual leader of the
Muslims. The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS
demonstrates that the great caliphates of history, from the immediate
post-Muhammad period of the “Rightly Guided Caliphs” to the Umayyads,
Abbasids, and Ottomans, as well as other Islamic states, all waged
relentless jihad warfare against non-Muslims, subjugating them under the
rule of Islamic law and denying them basic rights.
These weren’t the actions of a
“tiny minority of extremists,” abhorred by the vast majority of peaceful
Muslims for “hijacking” their religion, as Ken Chitwood would have you
believe. This was, for fourteen centuries, mainstream, normative Islam,
carried forth by the primary authorities in the Islamic world at the
time. The accounts of eyewitnesses and contemporary chroniclers through
the ages show that in every age and in every place where there were
Muslims, some of them believed that they had a responsibility given to
them by Allah to wage war against and subjugate unbelievers under the
rule of Islamic law.
And so it is today: Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi enunciated that responsibility more clearly and directly
than most Muslim spokesmen do these days, but he is by no means the only
one who believes that it exists. There is much more.