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."
"WORLD TAKE NOTE!": Genocide of Christians by President of Nigeria by Raymond Ibrahim
Monday, October 07, 2019
According to Bosun Emmanuel, the secretary of Nigeria's National
Christian Elders Forum, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari (pictured)
"is openly pursuing an anti-Christian agenda that has resulted in
countless murders of Christians all over the nation and destruction of
vulnerable Christian communities." (Photo by Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty
Images)
Gatestone Institute : "It's tough to tell Nigerian Christians this isn't a religious conflict since what they see are Fulani fighters clad entirely in black, chanting 'Allahu Akbar!' and screaming 'Death to Christians.'" — Sister Monica Chikwe, reported by John. L. Allen Jr., Crux, August 4, 2019.
"Hundreds of indigenous Numan Christians in Adamawa state were attacked and killed by jihadist Fulani herdsmen. When they tried to defend themselves the Buhari govt. sent in the Airforce to bomb hundreds of them and protect the Fulani aggressors. Is this fair?!" — Femi Fani-Kayode, former Minister of Aviation, Daily Post (Nigeria), December 6, 2017.
Such is the current state of affairs: a jihad of genocidal proportions has been declared on the Christian population of Nigeria, and spearheaded by that nation's president and his fellow Fulani tribesmen, even as Western media and analysts present Nigeria's problems as products of economics — or "inequality" and "poverty," to quote former US President Bill Clinton on the supposedly true source that is "fueling all this stuff." Muhammadu Buhari, the Muslim president of Nigeria — who reached that position in part thanks to former US President Barack H. Obama — continues to fuel the "genocide" of Christians in his nation, according to Nigerian Christian leaders. Most recently, Father Valentine Obinna, a priest of the Aba diocese of Nigeria, attributed the ongoing slaughter of Christians to the planned "Islamization of Nigeria":
"People read the handwriting on the wall. It's obvious.
It's underground. It's trying to make the whole country a Muslim
country. But they are trying to do that in a context with a strong
presence of Christians, and that's why it becomes very difficult for him
[Buhari]."
Nigeria is roughly half Muslim, half Christian. A 2011 ABC News report offers context on when and why Muslim anger reached a boiling point:
The current wave of [Muslim] riots was triggered by the
Independent National Election Commission's (INEC) announcement on Monday
[April 18, 2011] that the incumbent President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan [a
Christian], won in the initial round of ballot counts. That there were
riots in the largely Muslim inhabited northern states where the defeat
of the Muslim candidate Muhammadu Buhari was intolerable, was
unsurprising.
Northerners [Muslims] felt they were entitled to the
presidency for the declared winner, President Jonathan, [who] assumed
leadership after the Muslim president, Umaru Yar'Adua died in office
last year and radical groups in the north [Boko Haram] had seen his
[Jonathan's] ascent as a temporary matter to be corrected at this year's
election. Now they are angry despite experts and observers concurring
that this is the fairest and most independent election in recent
Nigerian history.
Between 2011 and 2015, Boko Haram — a jihadi group that committed
ISIS-types of atrocities even before ISIS came into being — terrorized
and slaughtered thousands of Christians,
particularly those living in the Muslim-majority north. In 2015,
Nigeria's Muslims finally got what they wanted: a Muslim president in
the person of Muhammadu Buhari. The violence, however, only got worse.
Muslim Fulani herdsmen — the ethnic tribe from which Buhari hails — joined and even surpassed Boko Haram in their slaughter of Christians.
Between June 2017 and June 2018 alone, Muslim Fulani slaughtered approximately 9,000 Christians and destroyed at least a thousand churches. (It took
three times longer for the Fulani to kill a fraction [1,484] of
Christians under Jonathan's presidency.) In just the first six months of
this year, 52 lethal terror
attacks targeting Christian villages occurred. "Nearly every single
day, I wake up with text messages from partners in Nigeria, such as this
morning: 'Herdsmen stab 49-year-old farmer to death in Ogan,'" human
rights lawyer Ann Buwalda said in July.
