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."
Germany: Muslim mother kills her four-year-old son to keep him from being raised as a Christian
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Jihad Watch : In the Qur’an, a mysterious figure, known as Khidr in Islamic
tradition, kills a boy in an apparently random and gratuitous attack.
He
then explains: “And as for the boy, his parents were believers, and we
feared that he would overburden them by transgression and disbelief. So
we intended that their Lord should substitute for them one better than
him in purity and nearer to mercy.” (18:80-81) The mother in this case was likewise afraid that her son would grow
up in “transgression and disbelief,” and she acted as Khidr did.
“4-year-old drowned in Rotenburg: accused mother collapses,”
translated from “4-Jähriger in Rotenburg ertrunken: Angeklagte Mutter
bricht zusammen,” Buten un Binnen, April 13, 2021 (thanks to Medforth):
How often does it happen that an entire courtroom suffers
with the defendant? The 40-year-old woman with a silk headscarf wants
to testify, but she is intimidated and upset, weeps silently and can
barely utter a word. The mother is said to have killed her four-year-old
son: she deliberately threw him from a bridge in Rotenburg into the
Wümme, said public prosecutor Pia Geisler on Tuesday at the start of the
trial in the Verden district court. The child drowned in the river. The
charge is manslaughter (Az. Ks 101/21).
The defendant “killed a person without being a murderer,” said
Geisler. Paragraph 212.1 of the Criminal Code provides for imprisonment
between five years and life imprisonment. The boy came to the children’s
clinic in Rotenburg on November 2, 2020 with severe burns. He had to be
operated on three times. The mother, who is Turkish, said that she
accidentally scalded him with hot water while washing, the prosecutor
said. Hospital employees wanted to notify the youth welfare office
The employees in the hospital found the injuries suspicious, they
wanted to call in the youth welfare office. The mother then took her
child out of the clinic. “The defendant feared that her custody would be
withdrawn,” said Geisler. In the woman’s mind, this also meant that the
boy would grow up not as a Muslim, but as a Christian. That’s why she
threw her son over the railing of the bridge into the water to kill him.
She then wanted to commit suicide, but did not succeed. Hours later,
the police in Rotenburg picked up the distraught woman. The body of the
drowned child was found in a nightly search. The mother was first placed
in a psychiatric hospital and later in custody. Judge breaks off the trial
When the woman tried to testify through an interpreter, but could
not, the presiding judge Volker Stronczyk broke off the questioning and
adjourned the hearing. “Everyone in the room could see that the
situation is very stressful for you,” he reassured the defendant as she
apologized for her breakdown.
“We negotiate the whole thing calmly and
patiently.” The judge ordered defense attorney Daniela Post to summarize
her client’s testimony in writing for the next meeting on April 30th.