Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen 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 soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt 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."
China invests $1.3 trillion in Muslim countries, they remain silent about Uighur genocide
Friday, July 16, 2021
Jihad Watch : Can China buy an end to any jihad against it? The Islamic doctrines will
remain, but the Muslim countries have 1.3 trillion reasons to ignore
them for now. ā$1.3 trillion And Counting: The Cost That Keeps Muslim Countries Mum on Chinaās Uyghur Genocide,ā by Santosh Chaubey, News18, July 8, 2021:
Recently, Pakistanās Prime Minister Imran Khan said he
āacceptedā Chinaās version regarding the treatment of Uyghur Muslims in
Xinjiang province. Khan, a fierce critic of Islamophobia, said Chinaās
version of bringing āimprovement in the societyā was much better than
the model followed by the western democracies. He, in fact, hailed the
Chinese Communist Party for it.
China has been calling the mass detention camps where Uyghur and
other ethnic minorities are transferred as āvocational education and
training centersā. However, the US, the European Union and the United
Nations have called these centres as detention camps, which has almost
two million Uyghur Muslims, according to different research reports, and
accuse China of committing genocide and forcefully assimilating Uyghurs
by banning its religious practices and restricting its population
growth.
