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."
Syria: Muslims demand Christian convert teacher turn over his school to them, arrest him for apostasy
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Radwan Muhammad
Jihad Watch : “Mr Muhammad, who works as an English teacher and headmaster, refused
the group’s orders to hand his school building over to them so they
could turn it into an Islamic school.”
That was an unconscionable display of effrontery from a man who, as
far as the Muslims of Failaq al-Sham were concerned, should have
submitted meekly to their hegemony, in accord with the Qur’an’s command
that Muslims must make non-Muslims “feel themselves subdued.”
And now he is in serious trouble. The death penalty for apostasy is
part of Islamic law. It’s based on the Qur’an: “They wish you would
disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take
from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But
if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them
and take not from among them any ally or helper.” (Qur’an 4:89)
A Sunni hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Whoever changed his Islamic
religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). This is not just a Sunni
idea; the death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to
all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence.This is still the position of all the schools of Islamic
jurisprudence, both Sunni and Shi’ite. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the
most renowned and prominent Muslim cleric in the world, has stated:
“The
Muslim jurists are unanimous that apostates must be punished, yet they
differ as to determining the kind of punishment to be inflicted upon
them. The majority of them, including the four main schools of
jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, and Hanbali) as well as the
other four schools of jurisprudence (the four Shiite schools of
Az-Zaidiyyah, Al-Ithna-‘ashriyyah, Al-Ja’fariyyah, and Az-Zaheriyyah)
agree that apostates must be executed.”
Qaradawi also once famously said: “If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam wouldn’t exist today.” “Kurdish man arrested and accused of apostasy,” Christian Solidarity Worldwide, August 13, 2020:
CSW has learned that a 40-year-old Syrian Kurdish man
was arrested and accused of apostasy by Failaq Al-Sham, an Islamist
group loyal to Turkey, on 30 July.Local sources report that on 30 July fighters from
Failaq Al-Sham arrested Radwan Muhammad at his home in the village of
Jaqmaq Kibir near Rajo, a small town in northwest Syria close to Afrin.
Mr Muhammad, who works as an English teacher and headmaster, refused the
group’s orders to hand his school building over to them so they could
turn it into an Islamic school. According to local sources, Mr Muhammad
told the group: “I will hand you the building in one case only: if Jesus
Christ comes down to earth again.”
Mr Muhammed’s wife died recently, but the group
prevented the family from washing and shrouding her body according to
the customs of that region. She had converted from Islam to Christianity
a while ago. Pastor Nihad Hassan, who leads a Kurdish church in Beirut, Lebanon, and who is originally from Afrin himself, told CSW: “We
are extremely worried about Radwan’s life and wellbeing, he is being
held at [Failaq Al-Sham’s] Headquarters in Afrin and they may execute
him. Those Islamist groups and their Turkish masters are walking in the
footsteps of IS. In fact, many of their fighters are former IS and al
Qaeda members.”
Failaq Al-Sham is an Islamist group affiliated with
the Muslim Brotherhood. It functions in northwest Syria under the Syrian
National Army, an umbrella group for different Islamist factions under
direct Turkish command.
In March 2018 the Turkish army captured the city of Afrin with the help of some Syrian Islamist groups. Amnesty International reports
that since then “Afrin residents [have been] detained and tortured,
with houses and businesses looted and confiscated, and schools destroyed
or taken over.”…
