7th Rangers: Egypt’s leading Muslim cleric and sheikh, Dr. Ahmed al-Tayeb—also known as Pope Francis’s “wolf in sheep’s clothing”—recently asserted a demonstrable falsehood.
Fighting Seventh
The Fighting Rangers On War, Politics and Burning Issues
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."
Egypt’s leading Muslim cleric and sheikh, Dr. Ahmed al-Tayeb—also known as Pope Francis’s “wolf in sheep’s clothing”—recently asserted a demonstrable falsehood.
On April 30, 2020, during his
televised program that appears every year around Ramadan and is watched
by millions in Egypt and the Arab world, the Grand Imam of the Islamic
world’s most prestigious university, Al Azhar, declared that “Islam
doesn’t seek war or bloodshed, and Muslims only fight back to defend
themselves.”
This, of course, is a reaffirmation of the grand conclusion reached at—and therefore making a mockery of—a recent mega conference
dedicated to finding solutions to “extremism.” Hosted in Egypt by Al
Azhar, and attended by leading representatives from 46 Muslim nations,
al-Tayeb capped off the two day conference by declaring that:
Jihad in Islam is not synonymous with fighting; rather,
the fighting practiced by Prophet Muhammad and his companions is one of
its types; and it is to ward off the aggression of the aggressors
against Muslims, as opposed to killing those who offend in [matters of]
religion, as the extremists claim. The established sharia rule in Islam
bans antagonism for those who oppose the religion. Fighting them is
forbidden—as long as they do not fight Muslims.
Needless to say, such claims fly in the face of more than a
millennium of both well documented Islamic teachings and Islamic
history. One need only look at a map of the
Muslim world today and realize that the vast majority of it—all of the
Middle East, North Africa, Turkey, Central Asia, as far east as Pakistan
and further—was taken by violent conquest in the name of jihad.
