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."
This month, we include a few stories on a theme that doesn’t get much attention: so-called “Love Jihad”.
In fact, this isn’t much about love at all, but the ‘right’ that Muslim
men and boys claim is theirs to abduct, lure, and coerce non-Muslim
women and girls to enter a relationship with them. Sometimes that means a
forced marriage and sometimes it’s just plain rape. Either way, it’s
officially sanctioned in Islam because the permission comes directly
from the Qur’an.
“Sexual violence is consistently chosen time and time again [by
Muslim attackers] to target Christian women and girls across the globe…”
“Paid Non-Muslim Shill for Islam is very upset that India’s Bollywood has produced a movie about ‘ Love Jihad’ — the true story exposing the countless cases of Muslims in India forcing Hindu and Christian girls to convert to Islam”, Bare Naked Islam, May 11, 2023
Not really about “love” at all, but indeed an ugly form of jihad:
kidnapping or luring non-Muslim girls to relationships with Muslims, who
then demand they convert to Islam and marry them
An older article, but on the same theme, which is not a
‘conspiracy theory’. This really happens, unfortunately often in the
Asian subcontinent. Interfaith relationships between a Muslim man and a
non-Muslim woman all too often involve deceit and coercion.
“Outrage over abduction, forceful conversion of 14-year-old Esther to Islam in Kaduna”, by Bertram Nwannekanma, The Guardian, 10 May 2023
This report comes from Nigeria, which has been under jihad assault
for hundreds of years. Non-Muslim girls too often are in the news
because they are kidnapped by Muslims, who brutalize and rape them, and
try to forcibly convert them to Islam. Unfortunately, when the
authorities are Muslim, they frequently side with the Muslim men.
“India: Muslims murder Muslim girl for being in love with Hindu boy”, by Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, April 27, 2023
When it’s a Muslim girl in a relationship with a non-Muslim boy,
it’s not OK. It’s only OK if a Muslim boy or man seeks a relationship,
coerced or otherwise, with a non-Muslim girl. This comes directly from
the Qur’an Surah 2:221 and has much to do with the Islamic preoccupation
with the bloodline. Because any child born of a Muslim man is a Muslim
according to Islamic law, but a child born to a Muslim woman and a
non-Muslim man is not automatically a Muslim under Islamic Law (sharia),
the former is sanctioned and the latter forbidden.
“Eyes gouged out, shot at 9 bullets, stabbed 10 times: Read how the Taliban tormented a former female Afghan police personnel”, OpIndia, 3 May 2023
What’s been happening to our former allies, police and military
personnel who risked their lives to work with U.S. forces in
Afghanistan, after the Biden administration’s shameful and chaotic
retreat is abominable. This is the story of what happened to one of
them.
“Man suspected of murdering his wife to ‘preserve honor’“ by Thea Mossige-Norheim, Expressen, 21 April 2023
Accounts like this one are all too common these days in formerly
civilized countries of Western Europe. Here, a Muslim man, 20+ years
older than his younger wife, stabbed her to death in front of their two
young sons. They were all immigrants from Iraq. His excuse was that he
didn’t want her working (in elder care) with a particular male
colleague. In other words, this was a so-called ‘honor killing’… in 21st
century Sweden.
“Honour killing: Man burns wife alive in Pakistan’s Punjab province”, Devdiscourse, April 26, 2023
“The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has reported an
average of 650 honour killings annually over the past decade.” In
Islamic Republics, like Pakistan, the incidence of so-called ‘honor
killings’ is not only commonplace, but many times not prosecuted as the
homicides that they are.
What is not well-understood is that the horrific human rights abuses
committed by the Taliban are in fact obligated or condoned by
mainstream, normative, orthodox Islamic doctrine. These abuses are not
considered “extreme” or “radical” at all in the Islamic faith.
Sometimes we just need to close on an up-note. In Iran, more and
more women and girls are daring to go about in public without the
mandatory hijab (head scarf). The Iranian regime doesn’t know quite what
to do because it is clearly losing this battle. Here, the authorities
try to shut down businesses that allow women without hijabs to shop in
them, but it’s not working. The Iranian uprising that began in September
2022 after the so-called ‘morality police’ bludgeoned a young Kurdish
girl, Mahsa Amini, to death because her hijab had slipped inside a car
and some of her hair was showing, just marked its eighth month of
non-stop street demonstrations.
