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."
Qatar: Rape victims accused of sex outside marriage, face up to a year in prison and 100 lashes By Robert Spencer
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Jihad Watch : Numerous rape victims are in prison in Pakistan as well.
From the perspective of Islamic law, if they tempted men to rape them,
they are at fault, and must be punished. The rape must also have been
public, since four male Muslim witnesses are required to have witnessed
the act in order to establish it in Sharia court (cf. Qur’an 24:4,
24:14).
“The land where raped women end up being at fault: Sexual violence
victims ‘can easily become the accused’ in Qatar due to government’s
extreme view of Islamic law, campaigners warn,” by Ian Gallagher, Mail On Sunday, October 9, 2021:
…Campaigners say victims of sexual violence ‘can easily
become the accused’ in the authoritarian Gulf state, due to the
government’s extreme interpretation of Islamic law. Many cases have emerged of men being taken at their word claiming sex
was consensual, leaving the accuser facing charges of having sex
outside of marriage. Punishments for the crime of ‘zina’ – any act of
illicit intercourse – normally involve a year in prison and, if the
woman is Muslim, up to 100 lashes.
Rothna Begum, senior women’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch,
told The Mail on Sunday of her fears that zina laws will be brought
into focus at next year’s World Cup…. Around the time Qatar began lobbying for the rights to the World Cup,
stories about women punished under zina laws stopped appearing in
state-run papers. Since then, Qatar has sought to gloss over anything
that might present a negative image.
In March, a report by Human Rights Watch highlighted discrimination
through the male guardianship system, which requires them to seek male
approval to marry, study or travel. It says Qatari women face ‘deep
discrimination in almost all aspects of their lives’. Examples abound. A
British woman abandoned by her Qatari husband told the MoS that she is
unable to return to the UK with their children because he refuses to
give his permission.
The woman, who lives in Doha, said: ‘Society and the law are on his
side. It always favours the man, yet he was abusive during our marriage
and beat me up for some perceived slight. He hasn’t seen me or the kids
for years yet still exerts this power over me. I am trapped here. I
tried to get a divorce but it was dismissed. If I went to the airport
with my children, I would be arrested.’
In 2019, Noof al-Maadeed, then 21, escaped Qatar after years of
domestic abuse. She said she was ‘only allowed to go to school and back.
Anything else [and I could] expect a beating’. Unmarried women under 25 cannot travel abroad without the permission
of their male guardian. But Maadeed took her father’s phone and used it
to process an exit permit, then climbed out of her bedroom window to go
to the airport.
She flew to Ukraine then the UK, where she claimed
asylum….
