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."
Al-Azhar grand imam says man who beheaded teacher doesn’t speak for Islam, but warns against ‘insulting religions’
Sunday, October 25, 2020
Jihad Watch : Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Sheikh of Al-Azhar, said: “I declare that Islam,
its teachings and its Prophet are innocent of this wicked terrorist
crime….At the same time, I emphasize that insulting religions and
attacking their sacred symbols under the banner of freedom of expression
is an intellectual double standard and an open invitation to hatred.”
No it isn’t a double standard or an “invitation to hatred,”
at least not for any other religion except Islam. Al-Tayeb — hailed by
many Sunni Muslims as the highest authority in Sunni Islam — is the one
who is inciting hatred, issuing a sly justification for violence against
“blasphemers” such as that which was perpetrated against French teacher
Samuel Paty. He is subtly saying that Paty “invited” hatred, from which
it is easy to conclude that he deserved what he got. This is much in
keeping with the statements of Sheikh Ali Al-Yousuf
of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, who praised the Muslim
migrant teen who beheaded Paty, stating that the teen only took it upon himself to carry out the death penalty for insulting the Prophet Muhammad.
This subtle call for hatred and violence in defense of Islam is
nothing new for the Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar. He also incited jihad
terror when he declared in January 2018 that Trump’s Jerusalem decision would lead to violence. In a shocking CNN interview, El-Tayeb made some eyebrow-raising declarations:
He referred to Jerusalem as “100 percent Arab” under Israeli occupation;
He stated that “no religion” would support the declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel;
He said that decisions such as this one would nurture terrorism, and said that:
Because of this decision, the East and the West “will drown in seas of blood.”
Ahmed al-Tayeb not a man of peace. More about el-Tayeb:
He called for the Islamic State murderers of a Jordanian pilot to be crucified or have their hands and feet amputated on
opposite sides (as per the penalty in Qur’an 5:33 for those who make
war against Allah and his messenger or spread “mischief” in the land);
He broke off “dialogue” with
the Vatican after Pope Benedict XVI dared to criticize the jihad
massacre of 21 Christians in Alexandria on New Year’s Eve 2011.
Al-Azhar was also revealed to be offering free copies of a book that called for the slaughter of Christians and other Infidels.
And yet el-Tayeb deceptively states:
This terrorist does not speak for the religion of the
Prophet Muhammad any more than the terrorist in New Zealand, who killed
Muslims in a mosque, spoke for the religion of Jesus.
Nowhere does Christianity teach such violence; nor does any
historically Christian state carry out barbaric penalties for such
offenses as blasphemy and apostasy. “Al-Azhar imam condemns beheading, but says insults to religion ‘invite hatred,’” AFP, October 21, 2020:
