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."
The new war on Islamism - The West has been terrorised into silence BY Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Monday, June 20, 2022
Unherd.Com : Art and Islam often seem like oil and water. Other times, they behave like matches and gasoline.
It is hard to believe that more than 30 years have passed since Ayatollah Khomeini issued his fatwa against Salman Rushdie for The Satanic Verses — longer ago than the fall of the Berlin Wall. I also experienced the combustion created when art meets Islam, back in 2004.
Over that summer, Submission, a 10-minute film that I
co-created with Theo van Gogh, was aired on the taxpayer-funded VPRO
channel in Amsterdam. I had pulled four very explicitly misogynistic
verses out of the holy book, which Theo then inscribed on the bodies of
women who acted out the selected verses. After a series of threats, Theo
was murdered by a radical Islamist fanatic.
Warned that I would be
next, I went into hiding.Dutch society got the message: Submission was pulled and since
then nothing of any significance critical of Islam’s founding father or
holy book has been aired or exhibited by any mainstream Dutch outlet.
Two years later, the message was driven home in another small European
country when Flemming Rose, the editor of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten,
solicited drawings of the prophet Muhammad after a Danish school
teacher wrote a children’s book on the prophet but could find no
illustrations for it. After Rose published them, both he and one of the
illustrators, Kurt Westergaard, received credible death threats.