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."
Arizona community college must pay $155,000 to prof it forced to apologize for criticizing Islam
Sunday, April 18, 2021
Nicholas Damask
Jihad Watch : A slight pause on American academia’s out-of-control-freight-train rush
to submit to Sharia. But the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR) is still flogging this case in court, hoping to use it
to destroy the freedom of speech and criminalize criticism of Islam.
“Arizona community college to pay $155K settlement for directing
professor to apologize for Islamic terrorism quiz question,” by Katlyn
Patton, FIRE, April 13, 2021:
Maricopa County Community College District will pay professor Nicholas Damask $155,000 in exchange for his agreement not to sue district personnel, who last year violated
his expressive rights in an attempt to quell criticism of his quiz
questions on social media. The district also pledged to strengthen its
commitment to academic freedom.
Damask, who teaches political science at
Scottsdale Community College, came under fire on social media last May
after a student complained that quiz questions in Damask’s world
politics course were offensive to the student’s religious beliefs.
Damask said the college suggested it would require him to meet with an
Islamic religious leader to review the content of his course because a
student complained that three of Damask’s quiz questions about Islamic
terrorism were “in distaste of Islam.”
In response, the college directed Damask
to issue an apology — pre-written for him by a communications staff
member — and implied that he would be investigated. The college
ultimately backed down after an urgent letter from FIRE. Now, the district is finally paying for SCC’s unconstitutional knee-jerk reaction to online criticism….
A lawsuit brought
by the Council on American-Islamic Relations remains pending in the
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. (A district court
judgedismissed
In August for failure to state a claim, and CAIR dismissed the lawsuit in August for failure to state a claim, and CAIR appealed.)
