Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen 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 soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt 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."
The Islamic Belief that Muslim Lives are Worth More than Infidel Lives
Friday, February 07, 2020
Muhammad Rodwan
Jihad Watch : The UKās Mailonline
reported recently that āa hero police officer suffered multiple skull
fractures when an uninsured white van man tried to murder him in a
savage machete attack.ā
After the perpetrator, a Muslim named Muhammad
Rodwan, was arrested, Rodwan explained: āMy life is worth more than his
life.ā Meanwhile, in northern Italy, according to the German-language
site UnserTirol 24
āThe higher regional court confirmed on Tuesday the first-instance
verdict against Rabih Badr for the brutal murder of his partner Marianne
Obrist (UT24 reported). Badrās father was also present at the trial.
The latter defended his son and accused Obrist of infidelity.ā Badrās
father complained:
āThere was a problem between him and Marianne, namely
the problem of infidelity. She was not loyal to him, he dedicated his
whole life to her, but Marianne was not worthy of him.ā āMy life is worth more than his life.ā āMarianne was not worthy of
him.ā Is this just more Islamic āextremism,ā or do Rodwan and Badr have a
point?
Unfortunately, they do have a point ā an Islamic point. Reliance of the Traveller, a classic manual of Islamic
sacred law, explains matter-of-factly that āthe indemnity for the death
or injury of a woman is one-half the indemnity paid for a man. The
indemnity paid for a Jew or Christian is one-third the indemnity paid
for a Muslim. The indemnity paid for a Zoroastrian is one-fifteenth that
of a Muslim.ā (o4.9)
Sultanhussein Tabandeh, author of A Muslim Commentary on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
agrees, stating: āThus if [a] Muslim commits adultery his punishment is
100 lashes, the shaving of his head, and one year of banishment. But if
the man is not a Muslim and commits adultery with a Muslim woman his
penalty is execution. ā¦
Similarly if a Muslim deliberately murders
another Muslim he falls under the law of retaliation and must by law be
put to death by the next of kin. But if a non-Muslim who dies at the
hand of a Muslim has by lifelong habit been a non-Muslim, the penalty of
death is not valid. Instead the Muslim murderer must pay a fine and be
punished with the lash. ā¦ Since Islam regards non-Muslims as on a lower
level of belief and conviction, if a Muslim kills a non-Muslim, then his
punishment must not be the retaliatory death, since the faith and
conviction he possesses is loftier than that of the man slainā¦
Again, the
penalties of a non-Muslim guilty of fornication with a Muslim woman are
augmented because, in addition to the crime against morality, social
duty and religion, he has committed sacrilege, in that he has disgraced a
Muslim and thereby cast scorn upon the Muslims in general, and so must
be executed. ā¦ Islam and its peoples must be above the infidels, and
never permit non-Muslims to acquire lordship over them.ā
These ideas have lethal consequences. In Badrās case, āaccording to
judge Peter Michaeler,ā Badr āābeat her like a stray dogā first with a
stick, then with a baseball bat. Badr is said to have stabbed the
39-year-old with a knifeā¦.As was evident from Judge Michaelerās
reasoning at the time, the act was culturally motivated. Badr, who comes
from Morocco, killed Obrist āwithout mercyā and ābestiallyā and
exemplifies radical attitudes that are incompatible with the way of life
of a Western womanā¦.In Badrās mind, the woman is subordinate to the
man, the judge continued. As a result, Badr unjustly accused his partner
of infidelity, and restricted and suppressed her. According to
Michaeler, the motive was not jealousy, but the complete control Badr
wanted to exercise over Obrist.ā
As far as Badr was concerned, Obrist should have been under his total
control, for she was not only a woman, but an infidel. She had no
rights he was bound to respect. But of course, saying such things in the
West today brings one charges of āIslamophobia.ā Meanwhile, more women
like Marianne Obrist will continue to be victimized and brutalized.
