Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen 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 soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt 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."
Is Islam Violent? Forget the Koran, Let's Talk About Islam's PROVEN Historical Record By Raymond Ibrahim
Friday, August 05, 2016
Too often, the debate around Islamic violence centers around doctrine
-- around what the Koran and other scriptures (such as the Hadith --
the words and deeds of Muhammad) really say and mean.
Forgotten in this
debate is that Islamic scriptures are unnecessary in determining whether
Islam teaches violence and war against non-Muslims.
History suffices.
Consider the facts, which have been attested to by both Muslim and non-Muslim primary historic sources.
A mere decade after the birth of Islam in the 7th century, the jihad burst out of Arabia. In just a few decades, Muslims had permanently conquered what was then two-thirds of the Christian world.
The heart of the Muslim world today -- nations like Egypt, Syria, all
of North Africa, Turkey and more later -- had been, in the 7th century,
the heart of Christendom.
Thereafter, it was a continuous war on Christian Europe. That āReligion of Peaceā? Ask Obama: If Islam is peaceful, shouldnāt Islam have been peaceful during and immediately following its founding? Less
than three decades after the traditional date of Islamās founding
(622), three of the five original Christian centers (āseesā) founded by
the apostles -- Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem -- were forever
swallowed up by Islam. The fourth, Constantinople, valiantly resisted
the Islamic onslaught for centuries, but was finally conquered in the
name of Islam in 1453.
Though sacked and burned by Muslims as
early as 846, only distant Rome -- the Vatican, fifth of the ancient
Christian sees -- remained unconquered. Among other nations and
territories that were attacked and/or came under Muslim domination
throughout the centuries are (to give them their modern names, and in no
particular order):
Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Sicily, Switzerland,
Austria, Hungary, Greece, Russia, Poland, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Lithuania,
Romania, Albania, Serbia, Armenia, Georgia, Crete, Cyprus, Croatia,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Belarus, Malta, Sardinia, Moldova,
Slovakia, and Montenegro.
The few European regions
that escaped direct Islamic occupation due to their northwest
remoteness include Great Britain, Scandinavia, and Germany. This of
course, does not mean that these regions were not attacked by Islam.
Indeed,
in the furthest northwest land of Europe ā Iceland -- Christians used
to pray that God save them from the āterror of the Turk.ā This was not
mere paranoia. As late as 1627, Muslim corsairs raided Iceland.They seized four hundred captives and sold them in the slave markets of Algiers. Nor
did America escape Islamic attack. A few years after the formation of
the United States, in 1800, American trading ships in the Mediterranean
were plundered and their sailors enslaved by Muslim corsairs.
The ambassador of Tripoli explained to Thomas Jefferson that it was a Muslimās right and duty to make war upon non-Muslims wherever they could be found, and to enslave as many as they could take as prisoners.
