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."
Perlis’s ‘unilateral conversion’ appeal bound to fail, says Federal Court
Thursday, March 06, 2025
FMT : The apex court says its decision in Indira Gandhi’s case, handed down in 2018, is ‘binding throughout the nation’ and applies in Loh Siew Hong’s case.
PUTRAJAYA: The Perlis state authorities were not allowed to challenge a decision which quashed the conversion of Loh Siew Hong’s three minor children to Islam as the proposed appeal was bound to fail, according to the Federal Court.
“There is no prima facie case of success in the appeal, and the application for leave to appeal is dismissed,” Justice Nalini Patmanathan said in her grounds of judgment delivered on Monday.
The motion had been filed by the Perlis Islamic religious and Malay customs council (MAIPs), its registrar of converts, state mufti Asri Zainul Abidin and the state government.
Delivering the unanimous judgment of the court, Nalini noted that the crux of the appeal which the applicants intended to bring revolved around the correctness and applicability of the apex court’s decision in M Indira Gandhi’s case seven years ago.
“(The case of) Indira Gandhi held that the consent of both parents is constitutionally required in order for the conversion of a minor to be legally valid.
“In other words, where a minor has been unilaterally converted (i.e. by one parent without the consent of the other), the conversion is void and must be set aside,” the judge said.
Nalini said the applicants’ arguments, if accepted by the court, would in effect reverse the Federal Court’s decision in Indira Gandhi’s case and “encourage the unconstitutional practice of unilateral conversion to persist”.
