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."
Bangladesh's Reign of Terror: Toward the Next Islamist Hub of South Asia? by Uzay Bulut
Sunday, March 23, 2025
On March 7, thousands of members of Bangladesh's banned Islamist
militant group, Hizb-ut-Tahrir, defying police barricades, marched
through the streets of Dhaka to demand that the country's secular
democracy be replaced by an Islamic caliphate.
Gatestone Institute : On March 7, thousands of members of Bangladesh's banned Islamist militant group, Hizb-ut-Tahrir, defying police barricades, marched
through the streets of Dhaka to demand that the country's secular
democracy be replaced by an Islamic caliphate. Demonstrators chanting
"Khilafat, Khilafat" - a direct call for Islamic rule -- gathered for
the "March for Khilafat" procession outside the Baitul Mukarram Mosque
after Friday prayers. The mob at the march turned violent — complete
with stone-throwers who clashed with police. The police, in turn, fired back with tear gas and stun grenades.
Hizb ut-Tahrir, which has been banned in Bangladesh since 2009 for
posing a threat to national security, organized this rally in defiance
of a government ban on public gatherings.
Notes veteran Bangladeshi journalist and commentator Syed Badrul Ahsan:
"Politics steadily worsens in Bangladesh. The
economy is in free fall, law and order is in a cul-de-sac. The rule of
law is under organised assault, with detained politicians, cultural
activists and journalists unable to come by bail in court....
The [Muhammad] Yunus regime, which has no constitutional basis, has
nevertheless embarked on what it touts as a reform agenda.....
Yunus' interim government has demonstrated, unabashedly, its intent to erase Bangladesh's history.
The refrain of the August 5 change, for those who hold power at
present, continues to be one of a student-led revolution. It was
anything but. Muhammad Yunus, on a visit to the US in September,
publicly made it known in the presence of his friend Bill Clinton that
the agitation against the Sheikh Hasina government had been
meticulously planned.
Bangladesh's crisis is existential. All the values instrumental to
its emergence 50-plus years ago are systematically being jettisoned by a
regime that lacks constitutional legitimacy.
And there is another reality that cannot be ignored. In terms of the
constitution, Sheikh Hasina remains prime minister. When the military
had her leave the country in August, she was not given the opportunity
to meet the president and submit her resignation. Her followers have
thus continued to refer to her as the legitimate leader."
Some of the major groups, which were previously banned but, under
Bangladesh's new leadership of Muhammad Yunus, now encouraged, include:
Hizb ut-Tahrir, Tawhidi Janata, Hefazat-e-Islam, Jamaat-e-Islami, and
the Ansarullah Bangla Team.
