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."
Banning ‘Islamophobia’ would be a gift to grooming gangs by Fraser Myers
Wednesday, January 08, 2025
Spiked : Labour’s definition of ‘Islamophobia’ will encourage the authorities to turn a blind eye all over again.
As everyone surely now knows, political correctness is at the heart of Britain’s grooming-gangs scandal. Industrial-scale abuse was carried out in plain sight, and with impunity, because the police, social services and local authorities feared that intervening against mainly Pakistani Muslim men would make them appear ‘racist’.
This is a lesson the Labour government clearly refuses to learn. Its mooted plan to ban ‘Islamophobia’ throughout the UK public sector all but guarantees that open discussion about grooming gangs will be chilled and suppressed in future.
As things stand, Keir Starmer plans to press ahead with plans to officially adopt a controversial definition of Islamophobia for all public bodies. This definition, formulated by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on British Muslims, effectively treats criticism of any aspect of Islam, or indeed behaviour by some Muslims and even Islamists, as a form of racial discrimination.
The APPG’s report explicitly mentions grooming gangs several times, warning that it is a ‘racist’ trope designed to smear Muslims. In one jaw-dropping paragraph, quoting an outside submission to the review, it says:
‘The recourse to the notion of free speech and a supposed right to criticise Islam results in nothing more than another subtle form of anti-Muslim racism, whereby the criticism humiliates, marginalises and stigmatises Muslims. One real-life example of this concerns the issue of “grooming gangs”.’
