Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen 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 soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt 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."
Robert Spencer : With 80 million Hindus killed and tens of millions of Hindus enslaved by
Muslims during many centuries of rule, India has been the greatest
victim of Muslim conquest, its people subject to rapes, rapine, and mass
killings that followed upon their submission. Modern India, under the
rule of the Congress Party, shied away from standing up for Hindu rights
or even of telling the truth about Indiaās history in becoming, under
ruthless Muslim rule, what V. S. Naipaul called āa wounded
civilization.ā Narendra Modi is made of sterner stuff, and a champion of
the Hindus, but it will still be difficult for him and those around him
to figure out how to deal with the enemy within, whose numbers and
power are steadily increasing.
More on the history of Muslim depredations of, and aggressions
against, Indiaās Hindus can be found here: āThe Massive Transformation
of India and the Middle East,ā by Uzay Bulut, Gatestone Institute,
Since 1947ā¦ Pakistan has initiated three
full-fledged wars with Indiaā¦. In addition, Pakistan has consistently
utilized cross-border terrorism in India as an official instrument of
state policy, including the 26/11 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people.ā¦
Pakistanās military and ISI spy agency also continues to support the
Taliban, the Haqqani group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad, and other
affiliated militant groups in Afghanistan to undermine U.S. military
operations and maintain its strategic influence there.ā ā Hindu American
Foundation, August 2019.
It was the Muslims of India who during the time of Partition in 1947
first attacked the Hindus as they streamed out of what would become West
and East Pakistan. It was again the Muslims of Pakistan who made war
against India in 1965, in an attempt to seize a greater share of
Kashmir. That war, fought mostly in the air, ended in a stalemate with
no change in borders. In 1971, Pakistan again began a war by attacking
11 Indian airbases, causing little damage but leading to India declaring
war on Pakistan.
The resultant Indo-Pak war took place while the army
of West Pakistan was also attempting to crush the independence movement
in East Pakistan. The Pakistani army lost both to India and to the
rebels in East Pakistan, who promptly declared the existence of their
new nation of Bangladesh. The latest large-scale conflict between India
and Pakistan was the Kargil War in 1995, in which Pakistani army troops,
disguised as local Kashmiri militants to maintain deniability,
infiltrated beyond the Line of Control separating Indian from Pakistani
Kashmir, in order to attack Indian army positions. That war ended like
all the others, with a Pakistani defeat and a return to the antebellum
borders.
India first faced Islamist violence, dating as
far back as the 8th century to the time of the Muslim Mughal invasions
and rule through the mid-19th century. Countless Hindus and other
non-Muslims were murdered or forcibly converted to Islam.
The Indian historian K. S. Lal once estimated that as many as
80 million Hindus were slaughtered over several centuries by Muslims.
In addition, tens of millions of Hindus, as well as Buddhists and Jains,
converted to Islam to avoid being killed.
[Historian Mahomed] Ferishtha lists several
occasions whenā¦ sultans in central Indiaā¦ (1347-1528) killed a hundred
thousand Hindus, which they set as a minimum goal whenever they felt
like āpunishingā the Hindus.ā¦ Prof. K.S. Lal once
estimated that the Indian population declined by 50 million under the
Sultanate..[during the centuries when the population ought to have risen
by 30 million, and with still more Hindus slaughtered outside the Delhi
Sultanate].. research into the magnitude of the damage Islam
did to India is yet to start in earnestā¦ā ā Koenraad Elst, The
International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, September 2, 2011.
Apart from actual killing, millions of Hindus disappeared by
way of enslavement. After every conquest by a Muslim invader, slave
markets in Baghdad and Samarkand were flooded with Hindusā¦. [O]ne cold
night in the reign of Timur Lenk (1398-99), a hundred thousand Hindu
slaves died [on the Hindu Kush, āHindu-killerā] while on transport to
Central Asia.ā ā Koenraad Elst, The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, September 2, 2011.
Islamist violence against Hindus and other non-Muslims who enjoy freedom of speech is an ongoing problem.
This is true not just in Muslim lands. In Europe, too, those who are
accused of insulting Muhammad are threatened with death, a threat that
Muslims sometimes manage to carry out. Think only of the Charlie Hebdo
cartoonists, Theo van Gogh, Lars Vilks, the staff of Jyllands-Posten,
Salman Rushdie, and many others who were threatened with, or actually
became the victims of, violent attacks, or were even murdered by Muslim
fanatics. Even in India itself, where Muslim mobs are swift to inflict
their ājusticeā against āblasphemers,ā they are apparently unafraid of
being apprehended by the police force.
Ethnic cleansing against the indigenous Hindu
people of Kashmir was one of the occurrences that drastically changed
the demographic balance in the region. Starting in 1989, more than
350,000 Kashmiri Hindus were driven from their ancestral homeland in the
Jammu and Kashmir region by a radical insurgency orchestrated and
funded by Pakistan.
In 1989, the Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir began a systematic
campaign to drive out, or kill, the Hindus still living in that
contested region. Their brutal methods, which included ghoulish tortures
(eyes gouged out, genitals cut off, pregnant women eviscerated),
terrorized the Hindus, and 350,000 Kashmiri Pandits fled southward out
of the territory.
