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."
Jihad Watch : On Tuesday, February 8, a special court in Gujarat pronounced
judgement in the 2008 Ahmedabad bomb blast case, convicting 49 of the
77 Muslims who were accused in the series of 21 explosions.
Twelve were
acquitted for lack of evidence, while 16 were given the benefit of the
doubt. While India is currently reeling under the threat of Sharia adherents
using Muslim students to drive the secular democracy closer to the
implementation of Sharia, this was not the first time jihadi students
from the Muslim community wreaked havoc in the country.
The blasts that sent tremors through the city were plotted by the
Islamic terrorist organization Indian Mujahidin, formerly known as the
Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). Banned since 2001, the
terrorist outfit was formed in Uttar Pradesh in April 1977 by jihadi
students in order to work toward converting India into an Islamic land.
Though the movement is proscribed under the Unlawful Activities
(Prevention) Act 1967, its founder, Mohammad Ahmadullah Siddiqi, serves
as professor of Public Relations and Journalism at Western Illinois
University in Macomb, Illinois. The 2008 bomb blasts, however, were
planned long after Siddiqi moved to the US.
