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."
Pukistan: Thousands of Muslims clash with police over Muhammad cartoons in France
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Jihad Watch : How much longer must this drag on? “”Thousands of Pakistani Islamists
clashed with police for a second day”; how many more days will there
be?
It will drag on for as long as takes. For as long as Westerners
remain dar al-harb (the House of War), Islamic supremacists will work to
subjugate them and force them into obedience to Sharia.
This story illustrates the uproar, violence and deep threats to
stability that ensue when Muslim sensibilities are insulted. Incidents
such as this should be enough to wake up Western authorities and lead
them to recognize that Islam is not actually a “religion of peace.”
Jihad remains alive and well worldwide after 1400 years, while
Westerners remain focused on “offense” and “Islamophobia,” with no
regard for the real victims.
“Pakistan Islamists clash over French cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammad,” by Asif Shahzad, Mubasher Bukhari, Reuters, April 13, 2021: ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Thousands of Pakistani Islamists
clashed with police for a second day on Tuesday in protest against the
arrest of their leader ahead of rallies denouncing French cartoons
depicting the Prophet Mohammad, officials said.
At least one activist and one police officer died from wounds
suffered overnight after Islamists blocked highways, rail tracks and
main entry and exit routes, paralysing business in almost all major
cities. Police fired tear gas to disperse the protesters, government official
Naveed Zaman told Reuters, adding that they had refused to leave until
the release of their leader, Saad Rizvi, who was arrested on Monday.
Rizvi is the head of an extremist group, Tehrik-i-Labaik Pakistan
(TLP), that rose to prominence making the denunciation of blasphemy
against Islam its rallying cry. The protesters beat one officer, who died on Tuesday, and wounded at
least 40, a police spokesman in eastern Lahore told Reuters. One protester died in a southwestern district, a police chief said on condition of anonymity.
Video showed some protesters beating and dragging police and
pedestrians, which government adviser Hafiz Tahir Ashrafi condemned. He
told Reuters the law would take its course against those responsible. The group blocked one of the main roads into the capital late last
year and called off their protest only after the government signed a
deal with them, agreeing to endorse a boycott of French products.
At the time, protests had broken out in several Muslim countries over
France’s response to a deadly attack on a teacher who showed cartoons
mocking the Prophet Mohammad to pupils during a civics lesson. Pakistan’s parliament had condemned the re-printing of the cartoons in France, urging the government to withdraw its ambassador.
For Muslims, depictions of the Prophet are blasphemous….
