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."
Iran detains Christians in 24 provinces: ‘You don’t have the right to gather with church members’
Sunday, October 10, 2021
Emma
Jihad Watch : From the international media, you’d get the impression that this is how
Muslims are treated in the U.S. and Europe, not the way Christians are
treated in Iran. And the establishment media won’t say a word about
this.
“‘We weren’t afraid of prison, but we were afraid of being raped,’” Article 18, October 1, 2021:
Emma’s interrogator said her arrest was part of a major
national operation, in which Christians in as many as 23 other Iranian
provinces had been detained. It was the day after Christmas in 2010, just two months since the
Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had warned in an infamous speech
in Qom that the spread of house-churches were among the “critical
threats” facing the Islamic Republic – by “deceiving young Muslims”.
It was a speech that made headlines around the world, and it seems as though Emma’s interrogator was one of those listening. “He said that if they don’t stop Christians, and the Church, the security of the country would be at risk,” Emma recalls… Emma, whose birth name was Azam Safaei, had been arrested at her home
in Bandar Abbas, southern Iran, early in the morning of 26 December.
