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."
Osama E. El Hannouny, a
25-year-old man who lives in the Chicago suburb of Palos Hills,
Illinois, has made his prejudices very clear, saying
that he doesn’t like Christians. More than once he has acted on that
dislike at churches in his area. But as his attacks don’t fit the
mainstream media narrative, this article is likely to be the only place
where you’ll hear about them.
Last Tuesday, when he should
have been staying at home and making TikTok videos like other people his
age, El Hannouny ventured out into the coronavirus-ridden wilds,
heading for Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Palos Hills. Once he got
there, he looked into the church through the doors, and saw that there
were people inside (doesn’t anyone honor the coronavirus quarantine in
Cook County?). Seeing his chance for jihad, El Hannouny immediately
began piling leaves around the church’s gas main and air conditioning
unit, making numerous trips back and forth to do so. Once he was
satisfied that he had sufficient kindling, El Hannouny, according to the
charges against him, set fire to the leaves.
As it happened, no one was
hurt: firefighters quickly arrived on the scene and put out the fire
before it did any significant damage. El Hannouny, however, continued
his jihad, this time against the police who arrested him. According to Patch,
“while El Hannouny was being processed, police said he started spitting
at officers, reports said. El Hannouny also wrote a religious slur on
the wall of his cell, according to the report. El Hannouny allegedly
scratched, bit and spit at police when they tried to stop him.”
The officers who arrested him
may have recognized El-Hannouny. It was only six months ago, November
17, 2019, that he showed up at two other churches in Palos Hills. With a
laudable eye for ecumenical sensitivities, that time he chose the
city’s First Baptist Church and the Saints Constantine and Helen Greek
Orthodox Church. At both, he confined his activities to the parking lot,
slashing the tires of a total of nineteen cars.
When he was arrested and asked
why he had done such a thing, El Hannouny replied with unusual
directness: “I don’t like Christians.” According to WBBM,
he admitted to the 19 tire-slashings and was “charged with 14 counts of
criminal damage to property.” El Hannouny was then “released on a
personal recognize [sic] bond and electronic monitoring.” In January,
authorities added on hate crime charges.
The hate crime charges didn’t deter El Hannouny from hating. For the new incident over at Sacred Heart Church, according to Patch,
El Hannouny “appeared Wednesday before a Cook County judge on charges
of arson, hate crimes, criminal damage to property, battery to a police
officer and violation of bail bond.” There is much more.
