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."
'You killed her for two strands of hair': Mahsa Amini's father stops mullah from performing her last rites
Saturday, September 24, 2022
Mahsa Amini was detained by the morality police and then died while in custody
First Post : Over the past few days, protests have erupted across Iran after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died while being held by the morality police for violating the country's strictly enforced Islamic dress code.
Tehran: Amid ongoing protests in Iran, Mahsa Amini’s father has refused to allow Islamic prayers over his daughter’s body.
“Your Islam denounced her, now you’ve come to pray over her? Aren’t
you ashamed of yourself? You killed her for two strands of hair! … Take
your Islam and go,” said Mahsa Amini’s father in a viral video.
Father of Mahsa Amini refuses to allow Islamic prayers over body of Mahsa. He's says to the mullah who's praying over her: "Your Islam denounced her, now you've come to pray over her? Aren't you ashamed of urself? You killed her for 2 strands of hair! ... Take your Islam and go." pic.twitter.com/Pzqn92Z2c2
Over the past few days, protests have erupted across Iran after a
22-year-old woman died while being held by the morality police for
violating the country’s strictly enforced Islamic dress code. Anger has
seen women remove their mandatory headscarves, or hijabs, from covering
their hair after the death of Mahsa Amini, who was picked up by morality
police over her allegedly loose headscarf.
Several videos have emerged online showing women twirling them
overhead, chanting. Others have burned them or cut off locks of their
own hair in rage.
Amini’s death has angered many Iranians, particularly the young, who
have come to see it as part of the Islamic Republic’s heavy-handed
policing of dissent and the morality police’s increasingly violent
treatment of young women.