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."
From Kashmir to Ram Navami: Quranic sanctions to ‘stoning’ the Devil and targeting of Kaafirs
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Islamists pelt stones under the garb of Anti CAA protests
Given that Islamists routinely resort to stone-pelting, whether it is in
Kashmir or processions carried out on Hindu festivals elsewhere, can
the indoctrination of bigotry, coupled with sanctions of the religious
scriptures, be ruled out?
Stone pelting was once an everyday phenomenon in the Kashmir Valley.
Young children and grown men alike, dawned skull caps, unfurled ISIS
flags and took to stoning the security forces in unison. However, with
the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019, the cases of stone-pelting
gradually began to drop. Today, it is close to nil.
However, it remained a central part of protests against the Indian
Armed forces stationed in Kashmir. While sometimes stone-pelting was
used by Islamists to agitate security forces, knowing fully well that
the security personnel won’t use guns against them, at other times it
was used as a tool to help besieged terrorists escape from being caught
by the forces. Though it cannot be denied that several of the stone
pelters were backed by the Pakistani deep state, the religious
motivation behind it could not be understated.
Much like stone-pelting was used as an instrument of defiance against
security forces in Kashmir, it was and has been routinely used to
target Hindu processions when they pass through neighbourhoods that are
now being referred to by the liberal intelligentsia as ‘Muslim areas’,
which is nothing but a contemporary manifestation of the divisive
Two-nation theory. Processions, carrying deities, often come under a
volley of stones, followed by arson attacks, vandalism and violence,
under the garb that they played devotional songs and hymns that
‘provoked’ the other side.
This was witnessed during the recent Hindu New Year celebrations in
the Karauli district of Rajasthan where a Hindu procession, which was
carried out after more than 7 years, witnessed stone-pelting and a
wanton bout of violence and vandalism. Earlier yesterday, Ram Navami
celebrations came under attack
in 5 different Indian States, namely, Gujarat, West Bengal, Jharkhand,
Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka. They were allegedly orchestrated by
frenzied mobs, who were armed with stones and sticks, and determined to
stop the Hindu processions from advancing through their ‘Muslim areas’.
