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."
Italy: Top Muslim leader says Judaism and Christianity are ‘manipulation of original messages of prophets’
Monday, September 28, 2020
Baradai and our ass of a Pope
Jihad Watch : Yassine Baradai is simply enunciating standard Islamic theology, which
holds that all the Biblical prophets were Muslims (cf. Qur’an 3:67,
which says it about Abraham), and that their wayward followers then
twisted and hijacked their teachings to create Judaism and Christianity.
But the Pope and the Italian Catholic bishops either don’t know this or
are afraid that acknowledging its truth will harm the spurious
“dialogue” they’re having with Muslim leaders such as Yassine Baradai.
That “dialogue” hasn’t produced one single positive result. It hasn’t
prevented one Christian from being persecuted, or one church from being
burned. But the Pope and bishops are too deeply committed to it to admit
its failure. “Top Muslim Torpedoes Interfaith Dialogue,” by Jules Gomes, ChurchMilitant.com, September 24, 2020:
Yassine Baradai, national secretary of the Union of Islamic Communities of Italy (UCOII) — the largest umbrella organization of the Islamic communities in Italy — sparked outrage after trashing Judaism and Christianity as “heresy” and a “manipulation of the original message of the prophets.”
“Indeed, both these creeds are heresy according to Islam,” and the
Koran, Baradai wrote in an Aug. 29 Facebook post summarizing a sermon he’d delivered to mark the festival of Ashura.
“If it were otherwise, we as Muslims would be required to follow
Judaism or Christianity, but Islam corrects the crippling made in the
residual scriptures of the Torah and the gospel,” Baradai remarked.
“Salvation was offered to the Israelite people and not the Jewish
people, who are of recent nascency” since “the children of Israel
weren’t Jews,” Baradai argued.
The preacher also claimed that the Old Testament prophets “were not
Jews, but Muslims” and “the children of Israel and the Jews are two
different things.”
‘Slap in the Face’
“Not a single Jewish leader or Catholic bishop has the courage to
protest and debunk these blasphemous public statements against the two
Abrahamic religions, even though UCOII is seen as a leading member of
the Catholic-Muslim dialogue scene in Italy,” Francesco Maggio, expert
in interreligious relations with Islam for Italy, told Church Militant.
“Baradai’s statement is a slap in the face of Vatican II’s
pronouncements that ‘Islam is among the three Abrahamic religions’ and
that ‘Muslims worship with us a single, merciful God’ — a position from
which evangelicals adhering to the Bible have always distanced
themselves,” Maggio noted.
“However, UCOII feels the time is now ripe to turn the Vatican’s
inclusive policy into an exclusivist policy and thus subvert
everything,” he observed. “And since we are talking about dialogue here, I clearly do not see
the same spirit coming from this Islamic leader, the current national
secretary of the UCOII.”
Maggio also said Catholic leaders were deliberately “maintaining
radio silence” for fear that the controversy might “raise a stink” just
before Pope Francis signs hisFratelli Tutti (“All Brothers”) encyclical on human fraternity in Assisi on Oct. 3.
