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."
Exclusive: Nigerian Christians, Forgotten by the West, Face Christmas Under the Shadow of Jihadist Genocide
Tuesday, January 02, 2024
Clergymen carry white coffins containing the bodies of priests allegedly
killed by Fulani herdsmen, for burial at Ayati-Ikpayongo in Gwer East
district of Benue State, north-central Nigeria on May 22, 2018. (EMMY
IBU/AFP via Getty Images)
Christians in Nigeria will celebrate Christmas this year facing a relentless onslaught of jihadist terrorism seeking to eliminate them from the country, experts told Breitbart News, with little support from their government.
In the northeast, Nigerian Christians have endured
decades of attacks by Boko Haram, the Islamic State-affiliated terrorist
organization committed to killing Christians and forcing young girls
into sex slavery “marriages” with their fighters. In the central Middle
Belt, jihadists belonging to the majority-Muslim Fulani ethnic group
regularly conduct raids on Christian communities, burning down entire
villages and occupying land historically populated by Christian
majorities. The objective in both cases is the genocide of Nigerian
Christians and the establishment of a sharia “caliphate” system.
International Christian Concern named
Nigeria the world’s top oppressor of Christians in its 2023 report —
the world’s most dangerous place to be a Christian — as a result of
the “20-year genocide against Christians” there by Boko Haram, the
Fulani, and other jihadist elements.
Clergymen
carry white coffins containing the bodies of priests allegedly killed
by Fulani herdsmen, for burial at Ayati-Ikpayongo in Gwer East district
of Benue State, north-central Nigeria on May 22, 2018. (EMMY IBU/AFP via
Getty Images)
“You have to distinguish between the tribe and the group of
extremists within that category. With that understanding, the Fulani
feel as though all of a certain territory belongs to them by right, by
history, and you might say they view it as their God-given caliphate,”
David Curry, the president and CEO of Global Christian Relief,
told Breitbart News, “because they have a theology. This is not just a
tribal issue, this is not just a land issue, and it’s not a climate
issue, as is sometimes stated … No, this is, they view this as their
God-given right.”
The persecution has plagued the country for years with little or no
intervention from the government and, unlike in many other parts of the
world where Christians face genocidal action, even though they make up a
significant percentage of the population. While a slight plurality of
Nigerians are Muslim, about 45 percent of the country belongs to some form of Christian church.
It largely occurs in the form of raids of Christian communities, in
both north and central Nigeria, by jihadist attackers who kill and
abduct as many Christians as possible — then take their homes and settle
in their land.
“Last Christmas, essentially, there was a spate of attacks where
something like 100 plus people were attacked, unfortunately the numbers
are always inexact,” Edward Clancy, the director of outreach for the
Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need,
told Breitbart News in a recent interview, naming the Middle Belt state
of Benue as a particularly troubling hotspot of genocidal violence.
