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."
‘The West is empowering radical Islam’ By Yasmine Mohammed on the dangers of banning ‘Islamophobia’
Wednesday, March 05, 2025
Spiked : Islamic blasphemy laws have arrived in Europe. Two men in Britain have been arrested in the space of month for allegedly burning the Koran. Both were apparently acting in solidarity with Salwan Momika, an Iraqi refugee and outspoken atheist, who was murdered last month in Sweden while burning the Muslim holy book.
Had the Islamist mob not got to him first, he would have stood trial for his supposed blasphemy. Either way, he would have been silenced.
Yasmine Mohammed – ex-Muslim and president of Free Hearts Free Minds – joined The Brendan O’Neill Show last week to discuss this unholy marriage between the Western authorities and hardline Islamists. What follows is an edited extract from that conversation. Listen to the full thing here.
Brendan O’Neill: What do you make of the recent spate of Koran-burnings?
Yasmine Mohammed: I normally wouldn’t burn a Koran. It’s not really my form of protest. But I very happily burned one recently, after Salwan Momika’s murder last month. I’m grateful to see that so many brave people have done the same thing. The best way to push back against these murderers, terrorists and bullies is to do exactly the thing that causes them to have their tantrums. When we capitulate and pander to them, and when we do things like criminalise Koran-burning in Scandinavia, we are empowering Islamists. We are encouraging them to continue with their bullying.
