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."
India: Muslim neighbors set non-Muslim on fire, victim’s family says “They planned to burn all of us alive”
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Dhan Prasad Ahirwar
Jihad Watch : There are innumerable examples of Muslims turning on their non-Muslim
friends and neighbors.
The New York Times on June 19, 2013 carried a photo with this caption: “Ibtisam Ali Aboud (with her son Jafar) says that her husband, a Syrian Alawite, was killed by his Sunni friend.” Then there was Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s 9/11/11 throat-slitting murder of his Jewish “best friend.” In September 2013, Christians in Maaloula, Syria said that their Muslim neighbors had aided jihad attacks against them. And in July 2014, Christian refugees from Mosul said that their Muslim neighbors had helped drive them out of the city. An anecdote from the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth century:
Then one night, my husband came home and told me that the
padisha had sent word that we were to kill all the Christians in our
village, and that we would have to kill our neighbours. I was very
angry, and told him that I did not care who gave such orders, they were
wrong. These neighbours had always been kind to us, and if he dared to
kill them Allah would pay us out. I tried all I could to stop him, but
he killed them — killed them with his own hand. (Sir Edwin Pears, Turkey and Its People, read it for free here.........,London: Methuen and Co., 1911,p. 39)
“‘They planned to burn all of us alive, used to constantly abuse us’:
Family of Dalit man set ablaze by Muslim neighbours in MP,” OpIndia, January 31, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
