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."
Jihad Watch : The allegations against the renowned Islamic “reformer” Tariq Ramadan
are particularly revolting; if they are true, he is a monstrous sadist.
One of his accusers said
he subjected her to “blows to the face and body, forced sodomy, rape
with an object and various humiliations, including being dragged by the
hair to the bathtub and urinated on.”
His sadism, however, appears to be, if the allegations are true,
closely intertwined with his celebrated Islamic piety: another one of
his accusers said he told her he was raping her because she didn’t wear a hijab.
It wouldn’t be at all surprising, given his connections to all
varieties of powerful people, if Ramadan were cleared of all the
charges. If this happens, it would be in keeping with the duplicity that
has characterized his entire career. French journalist Caroline
Fourest’s illuminating book Brother Tariq: The Doublespeak of Tariq Ramadan
concludes that this much-lionized putative “Muslim Martin Luther” is
actually anything but a reformer:
In reality, Ramadan is “remaining
scrupulously faithful to the strategy mapped out by his grandfather, a
strategy of advance stage by stage” toward the imposition of Islamic law
in the West. His grandfather was Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim
Brotherhood.
Ramadan, Fourest explains, in his public lectures and writings
invests words such as “law” and “democracy” with subtle and carefully
crafted new definitions, permitting him to engage in “an apparently
inoffensive discourse while remaining faithful to an eminently Islamist
message and without having to lie overtly — at least not in his eyes.”
Ramadan, she said, “may have an influence on young Islamists and
constitute a factor of incitement that could lead them to join the
partisans of violence.”
Fourest was also the first to reveal, back in 2017,
long before these new charges were levied, that Ramadan had at least
four other victims besides the first woman who came forward, Henda
Ayari. “A request for religious advice turned into a compulsive sexual
relationship, sometimes consented to, often violent and very
humiliating, before ending in threats.”
“New rape charge against Islamic scholar Ramadan,” AFP, October 23, 2020 :
