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."
Egypt: Muslim stabs Christian to death, al-Azhar Grand Sheikh warns that such acts ‘might instigate religious wars’
Sunday, April 10, 2022
Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria Arsanious Wadid, 56 Killed
Robert Spencer : It looks as if that war is already being fought, at least on one side.
Now aside from issuing condemnations, what is the Grand Sheikh of
al-Azhar doing to ensure that Muslims don’t continue to commit acts that
“might instigate religious wars”? Has he established programs in every
mosque in Egypt teaching that Muslims should treat Christians as human
beings with a dignity equal to theirs? Why not?
“Priest dies from stabbing on seaside promenade in Egypt,” Associated Press, April 8, 2022:
CAIRO — A knife-wielding man
mortally wounded a Coptic priest during an attack at the popular seaside
promenade in Alexandria on Thursday evening, Egypt’s interior ministry
said…. The priest was identified by the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria as Arsanious Wadid, 56….
Sectarian
violence is not uncommon in Egypt, where an Orthodox Christian
minority, the Copts, is believed to be among the world’s oldest
Christian communities…. Sheikh Ahmad al-Tayyeb, who heads Egypt’s
Al-Azhar — the highest institution of Sunni Islam in the Muslim world —
condemned the attack, warning that such acts “might instigate religious
wars.”
“The Grand Imam affirms that homicide is a major sin that
arouses God’s wrath and is punishable in the afterlife,” read the
statement posted on Al-Azhar’s Facebook page.
