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."
Jerusalem Mufti denies Temple Mount ever housed the Jewish Temple
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Jihad Watch : Islamic “Replacement Theology” in its most extreme form, courtesy of an Abbas-appointed cleric. “Jerusalem mufti: Temple Mount never housed Jewish Temple,” by Ilan Ben Zion.
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Muhammad Ahmad Hussein speaks to Channel 2 on October 25, 2015. (screen capture: Channel 2)
Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad Hussein says Al-Aqsa Mosque has been atop disputed holy site ‘since creation of the world’
The grand mufti of Jerusalem, the Muslim cleric in charge of the Al-Aqsa Mosque,
said Sunday that there’s never been a Jewish temple atop the Temple
Mount, and that the site has been home to a mosque “since the creation
of the world.”
Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad Hussein
said in an Arabic interview with Israel’s Channel 2 that the site,
considered the third holiest in Islam and the holiest to Jews, was a
mosque “3,000 years ago, and 30,000 years ago” and has been “since the
creation of the world.”
“This is the Al-Aqsa Mosque
that Adam, peace be upon him, or during his time, the angels built,” the
mufti said of the 8th-century structure commissioned by Caliph Abd
al-Malik ibn Marwan.
He vehemently denied that
there has ever been a Jewish shrine atop the Temple Mount, despite rich
archaeological and textual evidence to the contrary, including from
Muslim sources.
The 10th-century Muslim historian Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad
Shams al-Din al-Muqaddasi wrote in his description of Syria and
Palestine that “in Jerusalem is the oratory of David and his gate; here
are the wonders of Solomon and his cities,” and that the foundations of
the Al-Aqsa Mosque “were laid by David.”
