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 Temple Mount complex is home to the Al-Aqsa Mosque. the Western
Wall, and the Dome of the Rock (an Islamic shrine that is instantly
recognizable because of its gold-plated dome).
The destruction of temples and religious sites of other Faiths by
aggressive Islamists has long been an unfortunate part of world history.
In India, the Islamic invaders entered India and began the process of
‘Islamisation’ of the country nearly a thousand years ago.
The easiest way for them to achieve the set goal was by destroying
the Hindu structures and prominent Hindu places of worship in India. As a
result, the Babri Masjid was built in 1527 on the birthplace of Lord
Ram under the rule of the Mughal emperor Babur.
Many more Hindu structures and temples were demolished and converted
into Islamic places of worship in India. One such mosque is the Deval
Masjid which is located in the Bodhan area of Telangana’s Nizamabad
district.
Conversion of Hindu temple into Deval Masjid
According to the reports,
the structure of Deval Masjid was originally a Hindu-Jain temple that
was built around the 10th century CE by the Rashtrakuta King
Indravallabha (Indra III).
Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi
The Gyanvapi Mosque complex is a disputed structure
built over the ruins of the old Kashi Vishwanath Temple by Mughal
emperor Aurangzeb after it was desecrated multiple times by Islamic
monarchs such as Qutb al-Din Aibak and Aurangzeb.
To this day, parts of this ancient temple are clearly visible on the
outer walls of the mosque, especially the western wall which has been
kept intact. Moreover, there is enough historical evidence of the
demolition of the temple, the building of the mosque, and the rebuilding
of the temple at the current adjacent site.
The Kashi Vishwanath Temple complex, which is adjacent to the
disputed mosque complex and where devotees can do puja and prayers, was
built by Ahilya Bai Holkar of Indore in 1780.
Gyanvapi mosque was built by destroying the Kashi Vishweshwar Temple
A Varanasi court on May 12 this year allowed a
videographic survey of the disputed structure. Varanasi’s Civil Judge
(Senior Division) Ravi Kumar Diwakar issued guidelines for the same and
added that a report of the survey must be submitted by May 17.
