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."
Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens recounts how he converted to Islam and became a victim
Monday, September 28, 2020
Yusuf Islam with the Dictator of Turkey
Jihad Watch : Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens is a darling of the Western media these days,
because he converted to the elites’ favored religion. Critics generally
treat Bob Dylan’s “Christian period” as an embarrassing anomaly in his
otherwise stellar career, while Yusuf Islam gets articles like the one
below to explain his thinking and justify his action.
Neither Yahoo’s Erin Donnelly nor the venerable Yusuf, however, make
any mention of a few inconvenient facts. One is that as recently as
2010, there was published on YouTube a nasheed in which the author of “Peace Train” sang: “I’m praying to Allah to give us victory over the kuffar” (unbelievers).
This bellicose prayer was in line with Yusuf Islam’s earlier
post-conversion behavior. In 1989, he enthusiastically endorsed the
Ayatollah Khomeini’s death fatwa against Salman Rushdie for insulting
Islam. In a BBC panel discussion,
he said that, rather than burning Rushdie in effigy, “I would have
hoped that it’d be the real thing.” He further explained that if he were
in an Islamic state and was ordered by the relevant authority to kill
Rushdie, he would do so.
In 2004, Yusuf Islam was barred
from entering the United States because of suspicions that he had been
financing jihad terrorism. He acknowledged that some of his money may have gone to jihadis, but he claimed to have given money to them unwittingly.
Yusuf Islam has worked hard to
soften his image, and is never asked any questions about any of this.
But those questions remain. And now he is claiming victim status: “I was
an icon of the majority and now I am part of the minority who are
looked down upon and certainly, to a large extent, misunderstood.” He
has learned his lessons well. “Yusuf/Cat Stevens opens up about his conversion to Islam: ‘I was an
icon of the majority and now I am part of the minority who are looked
down upon,'” by Erin Donnelly, Yahoo Music, September 27, 2020 :
