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."
‘Every Muslim Pakistani is ready to sacrifice his life for the finality of Muhammad’s prophethood’ By Christine Douglass-Williams
Sunday, October 10, 2021
Jihad Watch : Khatm-e-Nabuwat is the idea that Muhammad is the last prophet and
none is to come after him. Khatm-e-Nabuwat is also the name of an
influential religious movement in Pakistan; its adherents are also known
for persecuting the Pakistani Ahmadiyya community, which it regards as
apostates.
According to Khatm-e-Nabuwat’s website, the group’s
“sole aim has been and is to unite all the Muslims of the world to
safeguard the sanctity of Prophet hood and the finality of Prophet hood
and to refute the repudiators of the belief in the finality of Prophet
hood of the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad.”
The West continues to be duped into advancing its own comfortable
view that in Islam, religion is separate from politics, and that it is
religion of peace. Yet across all of its mainstream sects and groups,
normative Islam is rooted in the quest for expansion. It is political
and governed by Sharia. Those who do not ascribe to Sharia are often
deemed to be apostates.
Far too many adherents to Islam who choose a
path of peace or modernization assert that their own brand of Islam is
the true version of Islam, despite the vast evidence that normative
Islam is what is accepted in the most influential Islamic states, among
the most prominent Islamic institutions, and is what is documented in
the Hadiths and Quran. They refuse to admit the scope, focus, meaning
and centrality of the Sharia as evidenced by 1400 years of human rights
abuses committing by those who follow its tenets.
This dishonesty
continues to confuse and plague the West. In the view of Pakistan, Iran,
and other Muslim countries — and also clearly observable among jihadist
groups — returning to the days of Muhammad as described in the Hadith
is what reform and revival are all about. “No compromise on Khatm-e- Nabuwat, Pakistan: Minister,” by Mansoor Ali, The Nation (Pakistan), October 7, 2021:
