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."
Jihad Watch : Ocasio-Cortez, among others, says this poster is a manifestation of
racism. Mike Pushkin, a Democratic member of the West Virginia House of
Delegates, said of the poster: “I said, ‘What does she have to do with
9/11?’ It was Islamophobic. I thought it was racist and it was wrong.”
Whatever the poster may be, it isn’t really racist. Islam is not a
race. Jihad is not a race. The claim that opposing jihad terror is
racism gallops forward nonetheless. No one can think anymore.
Meanwhile, what does Ilhan Omar have to do with 9/11? Nothing, of
course. The poster isn’t claiming that she was involved in the plot. But
all those who are outraged over this poster assume that the 9/11
hijackers believed in a twisted, hijacked version of Islam, while Ilhan
Omar, they doubtless assume, believes in the true, peaceful Islam. All
right. But there a good many unproven assumptions there. Islam has
doctrines calling for warfare against unbelievers, which the 9/11 plotters themselves invoked in explaining why they hatched the 9/11 plot.
These doctrines of violence are taught by all the mainstream sects of
Islam and all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence. Somalia, from which
Ilhan Omar hails, adheres to the Shafi’i madhhab (school of
jurisprudence). A Shafi’i manual of Islamic law that was certified in 1991 by the
clerics at Al-Azhar University, one of the leading authorities in the
Islamic world, as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy, stipulates about
jihad that “the caliph makes war upon Jews, Christians, and
Zoroastrians…until they become Muslim or pay the non-Muslim poll tax.”
It adds a comment by Sheikh Nuh Ali Salman, a Jordanian expert on
Islamic jurisprudence: the caliph wages this war only “provided that he
has first invited [Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians] to enter Islam in
faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited them to enter
the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax
(jizya)…while remaining in their ancestral religions.” (‘Umdat al-Saliko9.8).
Of course, there is no caliph today, and hence the oft-repeated claim
that contemporary jihad groups are waging jihad illegitimately, as no
state authority has authorized their jihad. But they explain their
actions in terms of defensive jihad, which needs no state authority to
call it, and becomes “obligatory for everyone” (‘Umdat al-Saliko9.3) if a Muslim land is attacked. The end of the defensive jihad,
however, is not peaceful coexistence with non-Muslims as equals: ‘Umdat al-Salik
specifies that the warfare against non-Muslims must continue until “the
final descent of Jesus.” After that, “nothing but Islam will be
accepted from them, for taking the poll tax is only effective until
Jesus’ descent” ( o9.8 ).
Does Ilhan Omar believe anything like that? No establishment media
reporter would ever dream of asking her, but considering that she is
clearly a devout, Sharia-compliant Muslim, it would be more surprising
if she didn’t than if she did. So she actually is a sign that Americans
have forgotten 9/11, or more precisely, she is a sign of the fact that
most Americans never really learned what 9/11 was all about. We were
told from the beginning that Islam was a religion of peace that the 9/11
hijackers had twisted and misused. Now a Congresswoman has been elected
who clearly has deeply imbibed Islamic antisemitism and probably holds
the same beliefs that the hijackers held. No, she has nothing to do with
9/11. But she is a sign of how the goals of that attacks are getting
closer to being realized.
Ocasio-Cortez also decried how Republicans are supposedly using
racism to “demonize communities.” This is one of the ways that the
national discussion we needed to have after 9/11 was derailed. Powerful
political and media figures insisted that to discuss how the 9/11
jihadis and others used the texts and teachings of Islam to justify
violence and make recruits among peaceful Muslims amounted to
“demonizing” the entire Muslim community.
The honest analysis of the
root causes of Islamic jihad have been buried under charges of “racism,”
“bigotry,” and “Islamophobia.” The outrage over this poster, which
actually makes a valid point, is just another manifestation of this. “Poster linking Rep. Ilhan Omar to 9/11 sparks outrage, injuries in W.Va. state Capitol,” by Eli Rosenberg, Washington Post, March 2, 2019 :
