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."
Salman Rushdie: ‘I’m afraid Cat Stevens got off the peace train a long time ago’
Thursday, September 23, 2021
Salman Rushdie
Jihad Watch : Yes, but no one cares. Jihadis and their enablers and sympathizers
aren’t vilified, marginalized, derided and shunned today; they’re
celebrated. Only foes of jihad violence and Sharia oppression get that
treatment.
As recently as 2010, there was published on YouTube a nasheed in
which the author of “Peace Train” sang: “I’m praying to Allah to give
us victory over the kuffar” (unbelievers). Does Yusuf/Cat still pray for
victory over the kuffar? What kind of victory?
In 2004, Yusuf Islam was barred
from entering the United States because of suspicions that he had been
financing jihad terrorism. He acknowledged that some of his money may have gone to jihadis, but he claimed to have given money to them unwittingly. Meanwhile, watch this video,
in which he enthusiastically endorses the Ayatollah Khomeini’s death
fatwa against Rushdie. Does he look as if he is being “framed” by a
“sharp-toothed journalist”?
But will he ever come clean and apologize? Almost certainly not.
Islamic supremacists never do. Whatever wrongdoing they commit is always
someone else’s fault. “The Meaning of Yusuf/Cat Stevens,” by Howard Fishman, Washington Post, September 20, 2021:
