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."
Sudan: Muslims tell ex-Muslim “We will kill you because you left Islam and became infidel”
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Bastardized Arabs in Sudan
Jihad Watch : The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based on
the Qur’an: “They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you
would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they
emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them
and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them any
ally or helper.” (Qur’an 4:89)
A Sunni hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Whoever changed his Islamic
religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). This is not just a Sunni
idea; the death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to
all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence.
This is still the position of all the schools of Islamic
jurisprudence, both Sunni and Shi’ite. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the
most renowned and prominent Muslim cleric in the world, has stated: “The
Muslim jurists are unanimous that apostates must be punished, yet they
differ as to determining the kind of punishment to be inflicted upon
them. The majority of them, including the four main schools of
jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, and Hanbali) as well as the
other four schools of jurisprudence (the four Shiite schools of
Az-Zaidiyyah, Al-Ithna-‘ashriyyah, Al-Ja’fariyyah, and Az-Zaheriyyah)
agree that apostates must be executed.”
Qaradawi also once famously said: “If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam wouldn’t exist today.” “Former Muslim from Sudan Forced into Hiding,” Morning Star News, March 10, 2020:
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – It was more than a
year ago that Muslims in the disputed area between Sudan and South
Sudan noticed that Ahmed Alnour was no longer reciting his Islamic
prayers five times a day. The tribesman of the ethnic Misseriya Arabs was helping support his
wife and seven children in Sudan working as a scrap trader at the Ameth
common market in Abyei, a 4,072-square mile special administrative area
on the border formed from the peace agreement that ended civil war in
Sudan in 2005.
Alnour would soon have to leave that work, forced to flee when area Muslims confirmed that he had become a Christian. “I saw them and heard them saying, ‘We will kill you because you left
Islam and became infidel,’” he said of their attempt to burn down his
home the afternoon of April 1, 2019. Neighbors were able to douse the flames and he escaped unharmed, but
on April 8 the assailants returned at 1 a.m. as he slept. He awoke to
find his house in flames. Alnour told Morning Star News that before Christians arrived to
rescue him, he heard one of the assailants say in Arabic, “Let us throw
him back in the fire, since he has abandoned Islam.”
The Christians took him to a hospital for treatment the following
morning. He had lost all his possessions in the fire, including 600,000
South Sudanese pounds equivalent to US$6,000, but he had not lost his
faith in Christ, he said…. He was baptized at a church last Christmas. In hiding since the
attacks last year, he has obtained a job and temporary quarters from
church friends at an undisclosed village in the Abyei area.
Risks are growing as Muslims are looking for him, he said. Fear of
Muslims’ reactions in Sudan and lack of economic opportunity keep him
from going home to his family, but someday he hopes to be able to return
and tell them about Christ, he said. “I want to tell my family about my new faith in Jesus, and I am sure they will believe with me,” Alnour said.
In light of advances in religious freedom since Omar al-Bashir was
ousted as president of Sudan in April 2019, the U.S. State Department
announced on Dec. 20 that Sudan had been removed from the list of
Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) that engage in or tolerate
“systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of religious freedom” and
was upgraded to a watch list….
Sudan ranked 7th on Christian support organization Open Doors’ 2020
World Watch List of the countries where it is most difficult to be a
Christian.
