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."
Nigeria: Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” murder nine Christians
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Jihad Watch : Clearly the herdsmen think they’re serving Allah by doing this. Could
they have gotten this idea from the Qur’an’s repeated statements to
“kill them wherever you find them” (2:191, 4:89, cf. 9:5)? That’s the
first thing Western analysts rule out. “Six Children, Pregnant Mother among Nine Christians Killed in Herdsmen Attack in Nigeria,” Morning Star News, April 16, 2020:
Nigerian Media Whitewashes The Genocide Against Christians By The Muslims
JOS, Nigeria (Morning
Star News) – Six children and a pregnant woman were among nine people
that Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed in north-central Nigeria Tuesday
night (April 14), sources said. About a dozen herdsmen armed with rifles and machetes raided
Hura-Maiyanga village, in the Miango area of Kwall District in Plateau
state’s Bassa County, shouting the jihadist slogan “Allahu Akbar [God is greater],” sources said.
“They were armed with machetes and AK-47 rifles as they attacked us,”
Hanatu John, a woman who survived the attack, told Morning Star News.
“They attacked our village at about 8 p.m., and they were shouting, ‘Allahu Akbar!’ as they shot into our houses.” The assailants were speaking Fulfulde, the Fulani language, as they shot into homes, she said.
“Most families had already retired into houses to sleep when these
Fulani gunmen came into the village and were shooting into houses,” John
told Morning Star News in Miango town, where she took refuge. “As the
herdsmen shot at us, we all ran out from our houses into the surrounding
bushes. Some of the herdsmen chased after us and shot at us, while
others were burning down our houses.”
Dalyop Solomon Mwantiri, director of the Emancipation Centre for Crisis Victims in Nigeria (ECCVN), confirmed the attack. “Hura hamlet of Maiyanga village in Kwall District, Miango Chiefdom
in Bassa Local Government Area, Plateau state was invaded last night on
April 14th by suspected armed Fulani herdsmen, who surrounded the entire
area and unleashed mayhem on the unsuspecting natives,” Mwantiri told
Morning Star News by text message. “As a result, nine persons were
gruesomely killed and two injured while 33 houses were completely
torched by fire. Most of the persons killed were children.”
He identified those killed as Angela Daniel, 3; David Yakubu, 15;
Luka Magwa, 5; Ishaya Yakubu, 7; Aba Ibrahim, 6; Stephen Ngwe, 7; the
pregnant Talatu Daniel, 32, and her unborn child; Sunday Biri, 45; and
Izhe Nkama, 43. Those killed were buried in two separate mass graves, he said.
Mwantiri identified the two people wounded as Esther James, 55, and
51-year-old Lami Ibrahim. “Additionally, over 250 persons, mostly women and children, have been displaced with no means of livelihood,” Mwantiri said. Miango resident Grace Gye sent a message to the Plateau state
government on Wednesday (April 15) decrying the Fulani terrorist
onslaught on area Christians and calling on state and federal
governments “to protect the people and their property.” She questioned
why Fulani herdsmen were moving about freely in spite of a lockdown in
the face of the novel coronavirus.
The Rev. Ronku Aka, a former Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA)
pastor and now community leader of the Irigwe ethnic group, lamented
incessant attacks on predominantly Christian communities. “So many of my people have been killed over the years, including the
attack of last night,” he told Morning Star News on Wednesday (April
15). “In spite of promises from the government to my people, the
herdsmen have continuously been attacking our communities.”…
Photo by Josh Eson – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=76726853
