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."
Indonesian Contingent Prepares for India's Republic Day Parade, Praises Warm Welcome
Friday, January 24, 2025
A 352-strong Indonesian contingent, including marching troops and a band, is in India for the Republic Day Parade. The Indonesian President will be the chief guest. The visiting soldiers expressed excitement about participating in the parade, interacting with Indian troops, and experiencing Indian culture and cuisine.
Utk makluman semua, pihak kerajaan akan merayu keputusan Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi dlm kes Mandamus tuntutan pelarasan pencen Aminah Ahmad terhadap KPPA, yg telah menyebelahi kpd pesara awam dan tentera.
If Saladin was just as bad as every sultan, why did the West chose to extol him as a paragon of virtue? A follow-up or Part 2 to "The Fake History of Saladin":
Muslims pivoted from they are victims of a GENOCIDE to they WON the war with Israel in a New York Minute
Vlad Tepes : More interestingly though, the left and Islam, no idea exactly who is
responsible for this exact thing but the alliance is undeniable,
firebombed a Jewish preschool in Australia.
BREAKING: Terrorist firebombing attack on Jewish preschool in Sydney. The terrorists spray painted āFUCK THE JEWSā next to the burning building.
I thought they just wanted a ceasefire???
We need mass arrests and deportations for Islamist extremists inciting the violence pic.twitter.com/PeUQjNPQ1M
AFTER the ceasefire went
into effect. As awful a thing as this is, it is yet another of the
hundred thousand tells that Islam has an agenda, and like the left, it
is never what they tell you it is overtly, but always what they tell
each other it is. They want to kill all the Jews. Any analysis from
Muslims based on geopolitical considerations is for the most part a lie.
Geopolitics and nation-states is the epitome of the West and Western
approaches to organizing societies, especially post WW2. Muslims and the
sophisticated left do not think like that. We do not understand how
they think. They do understand how we think. As a result, they are able
to circumnavigate us all the time.
Muslims made a deal with the people of Mecca when he attacked them and they won. They agreed to a ceasefire for 10 years. After 2 years, it was clear the Meccans had relaxed their guard and they attacked the city and took it. Their agreements mean nothing. Only their objectives. Recognize this or perish. And I mean perish.
Look for remains of pre-Islamic societies in any Muslim country. If archeologists find an ancient Church in Saudi Arabia, the state has it destroyed. Islam, like the Left, memory holes any trace of a pre-Islamic or pre-communist world. Get this. Understand this. Itās no joke.
Was Axel Rudakubana really a lone wolf? By Mary Harrington
Satan's Spawn
Unherd : Is it really Jeff Bezosās fault that Axel Rudakubana did what he did? The teenager was stopped on multiple occasions with a knife, including one he bought on Amazon, prompting a fresh round of silly headlines about new controls on knife sales.
These have been widely denounced as deflection, and there is indeed something about the Rudakubana story that feels off. In particular, Keir Starmerās insistence on the suspectās lone-wolf status and pivot to āknife controlā is driving a proliferation of conspiratorial thinking. But is there really a sinister cover-up?
Watching the pandemonium over recent days, I recalled the book I was reading as Britain erupted in riots following the Southport murders last July. Written by Australian ex-soldier and military consultant David Kilcullen, The Dragons and the Snakes explores the tactics used by anti-Western states such as Russia, and para-states such as Isis and Hezbollah, since the end of the Cold War.
Kilcullen argues that the West grew complacent after defeating the large, slow-moving ādragonā of the Soviet Union. It was therefore slow to notice its replacement by a swarm of nimbler, smaller enemy āsnakesā.
These, he argues, have kept up pressure on the West, usually by operating just below a level of hostility that would become legible in Western terms as āwarā.
Kilcullen characterises the core strategy as āliminal warfareā: a bundle of hybrid or āgrey zoneā tactics that ride on the edge of detectable, attributable hostility. Liminal warfare seeks to exploit the gap between realising an attack is planned, and being able either to take action or prove who is to blame for it.
An attack may appear as a ālone wolfā act of terrorism, information warfare, or perhaps DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) assaults on IT systems or other infrastructure sabotage. By the time anyone figures out who is to blame, the actors themselves have moved on, leaving chaos in their wake.
Are young Malaysians as ignorant as Anwar believes? By Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Malaysiakini : āI need young people to understand this. Have the courage to say no to corruption and religious bigotry.ā
- Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim
COMMENT |
Whenever Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim talks about young people, I
recall the way he lectured that young girl on the bumiputera quota
system in education.
The key is when Anwar talked about āfairnessā to this young girl, he implied that by virtue of her ethnicity and her question, she was victimising the Malay community.
It was such a sight that even Bersatu got into the action of throwing shade at the prime minister.
Sasha
Lyna Abdul Latif, the deputy chairperson of Bersatuās legal and
constitutional bureau, reportedly said, āHe must apologise and make
amends so that it is clear to all that every Malaysian child or student
is important and every one of them must be cherished and treated with
respect.ā
I remember when Anwar presided
over the conversion of a Hindu youth. By doing so, he was in fact
representing the religious reality that non-Muslims face in this
country. He was not merely welcoming a new convert into the religion, he
was reinforcing religious narratives.
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim (left) at a conversion ceremony, Aug 21, 2023.
The
prime minister lectures the West on democratic values and principles.
He sees fit to remind young Malaysians to stand up against religious
bigotry and corruption. What message did it send young Malaysians when
he justified the DNAAs and dropped corruption charges against those in
his cabinet?
Political and social life for young Malaysians is
defined by constitutional provisions that are manipulated by Malay power
structures to maintain racial and religious hegemony at the expense of
minorities.
This is why Anwar referenced the Constitution which
guarantees the rights of the majority. If people really thought about
it, they would be asking what rights do the majority have that the
minorities do not? But of course, nobody brings this up in polite
company.
Veteran 1972 : Ka, ka, ka, the greatest practicing of religious and racial bigotry, starting with converting a Hindu and talking down to an Indian student who asked about apartheid in the Malaysian Education practices. What a hypocrite!!!
What's Going On with That Mosque in New Orleans? By Raymond Ibrahim
PJ Media : Islam gets criticized for so many things; however, it's important for
non-Muslims to differentiate between those many doctrines that affect
Muslims only and those much fewer doctrines ā three to be exact ā that
affect the non-Muslim.
It is only the latter, which I detail in the
video above, that should ultimately concern the non-Muslim.
To be blunt, I care little if Muslims whip, cane, and stone each other,
"according to Sharia." I do care, however, what Sharia has in store for
the non-Muslim.
Who in Trumpās Team Invited a Hezbollah-Supporting, Antisemitic Imam Who Advocates Jihad Against America to the Inauguration
RAIR Foundation : The shocking decision to invite Imam Husham al-Husainy to deliver a
benediction at Trumpās inauguration exposes a dangerous failure in
vetting and raises alarming questions about the administrationās
commitment to combating radical ideologies, such as Islam, that pose a
grave threat to the nationās security and values.
The announcement of Husham al-Husainy, imam of the Karbalaa Islamic
Educational Center in Dearborn, Michigan, as one of four religious
leaders delivering a benediction at President Donald Trumpās second
inauguration on January 20 has ignited a firestorm of outrage. This
controversial decision has shocked many and raised pressing questions
about the Trump administrationās failure to vet or comprehend the terror
ties of this polarizing figure. Al-Husainyās past is not merely a
matter of inflammatory rhetoricāit is a case study in open support for
Islamic terrorism, virulent antisemitism, and the promotion of radical
ideologies, such as Islam, which are incompatible with Western values.
The Radical Background of Al-Husainy
Al-Husainyās selection has drawn sharp rebukes due to his documented
history of antisemitism, ties to Islamic terror organizations, and
incendiary Islamic rhetoric. Journalists and commentators have pointed
out that al-Husainy is not just any imam; he is a polarizing radical
figure whose past actions and statements align with Islamic terrorists
and run counter to American values.
A Troubling History of Terror Support
Imam Husham al-Husainy is no stranger to controversy. He has a
well-documented record of supporting groups like Hezbollah and the
Houthi rebels, both of which are designated terrorist organizations.
During rallies in Dearborn, Michigan, he openly displayed his support
for Hezbollah, at one point holding aloft a picture of the groupās
leader, Hassan Nasrallah, according to a Middle East Forum report.
Reform Islam? Tell Him Heās Dreaming By Peter Smith
Quadrant : I was going to leave the tiresome Western apologetics for Islam alone for a time. To use Antonioās words from The Merchant of Venice, āit wearies me.ā But then I saw the estimable Mark Levin on Fox News (last Sunday evening US time) interviewing Dr Zuhdi Jasser.
I hadnāt heard from Dr Jasser in a good while. I wrote about his views here in the December 2017 issue of Quadrant magazine (āReformist Pipedreams, Islamic Reality, and Muslim Accountabilityā). Alas, he obviously didnāt read my article, remains divorced from reality and, sadly, as ignorant as ever.
I will come to his views further on. First to Levin. He was talking
about the events in New Orleans and generally about the threat of
Islamic terrorism and said: āWe are not talking about all Muslims. Why
would we?ā This obligatory caveat is inserted into the lines of all
conservative commentators when they are on air discussing or debating
Islamic terrorism or Islamic hate preaching. I assume they have no
choice in the matter. Gotta say it to stay on air. I donāt buy it.
Rabble rousers need a mob. To extend that concept. Hamas could not
thrive unless a sizeable proportion of Gazans supported them. Let me
turn it around. If youāre clubās constitution allows its members to
refer to Jews as pigs and apes, is it still okay to sip your gin sling
in the club bar?
Muslims all belong to a religion whose constitution (i.e., scripture)
is hateful towards Jews in particular and towards all non-believers in
general. Keep in mind, religious affiliation is a choice, at least in
non-Islamic countries. It is not like race or ethnicity which canāt be
changed. Therefore the choice of following Islam is open to criticism.
And, however peaceful and moderate you are, signing up to a creed which
entertains discrimination and violence gives spiritual succour to those
who act out that discrimination and violence. As to that antisemitic
club I mentioned above, you need to resign your membership lest you be
justifiably tarred by association. Now to Dr Jasser.
Jasser is an American Muslim of Syrian parents, a practicing
physician, a former officer in the US Navy and, so far as I can tell, an
all-round (if wide-eyed) good guy. He is the Founder and President of
the American Islamic Forum for Democracy and Co-Founder of the Muslim Reform Movement
(MRM). He wants to change Islam (hook, line, and sinker) from what it
is to what he would like it to be. To rid Islam of the bad bits ā what
he calls Islamism or political Islam. Without a shadow of doubt, he is
an unrivalled fantasiser.
In 2015, Jasser along with another twelve disenchanted Muslims or
former Muslims, from across North America and Europe, signed and pinned a
copy of a two-page MRM āDeclarationā to the doors of the Islamic Centre in Washington DC; Ć la Martin Luther and the Castle Church in Wittenberg.
However, unlike Lutherās ninety-five theses, the MRMās Declaration
died abandoned in a ditch. Unsurprisingly! From an Islamic standpoint it
is heresy on stilts. It has no comparability with Lutherās modest aim
of ridding the Catholic Church of indulgences as payment for sins. This
is where Jasserās ignorance shows itself. As, did Aayan Hirsi Aliās in
her book Heretic (2015). They both seem to believe that the Protestant Reformation revolutionised Christianity. It did no such thing.
Luther simply wanted the Church to act more in keeping with scripture
and with Saint Paulās injunction that we could not gain redemption
through our own works but through the grace of God alone. The
Reformation subsequently produced geo-political effects but did not
change, nor did it seek to change, any of the essential elements of the
Christian faith. And it has not done so. The Bible remains the same,
word for word.
In stark contrast with Lutherās limited objective, each of the
propositions in the MRM Declaration (some 25 or so all told) strike at
the heart of Islam. I have randomly picked out four of them to
illustrate how they conflict with extracts from the Koran (Pickthall
translation).
āWe support equal rights and dignity for all people, including minorities.ā
So, choose not friends from among
them [disbelievers]ā¦if they turn back to enmity [apostates] then take
them and kill them wherever ye find them, and choose no friend or helper
from among them (4:89) Slay the idolaters wherever ye find them (9.5)
Mohammed is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are hard against
the disbelievers and merciful among themselves (48:29)
āWe reject violent jihad.ā
I will throw fear into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Then smite their necks and smite of them each finger (8:12)
āEvery individual has the right to publicly express criticism of Islam.ā
Those who disbelieve⦠are a folk
without intelligence (8:65) Fight against those who have been given the
scripture as believe notā¦until they pay the tribute [jizya] readily,
being brought low (9:29)
āWe support equal rights for women, including equal rights to inheritance.ā
Men are in charge of womenā¦good women
are obedientā¦As for those who you fear rebellionā¦banish them to beds
apart and scourge them (4:34) And call to witness, from among men, two
witnesses. And if two men be not at hand then a man and two women
(2:282) Allah chargeth you concerning the provision for your children:
to the male the equivalent of the portion of two females (4:11)
It would be possible to go on and on. The discordance between the
Declaration and Islamic scripture is vast. Jasser likely still has his
head because he is not taken seriously by any imam, mufti, or ayatollah.
Once Islam is ridded of so-called Islamism nothing much remains. It is
instructive to compare Jasserās prescription with Hirsi Aliās; which she
summarises as follows:
Stop forcing your faith on us, UiTM: Sabah, Sarawak demand respect for religious freedom - It is fucking insulting to other faiths
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Borneo Post - KUCHING (Jan 14): Seven civil societies from Sabah and Sarawak have
demanded that Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) campuses in the peninsula
ensure non-Muslim Bumiputera students from Sabah and Sarawak are not
coerced into attending Islamic events.
In a joint press statement entitled āStop Forcing Our Faith: Sabah
and Sarawak Demand Respect for Religious Freedomā, the organisation said
they are outraged and deeply appalled by the allegations against UiTM.
āThis is not just an attack on the religious freedom of our people ā
it is an affront to the dignity, identity, and autonomy of Sabah and
Sarawak.
āLet us be clear: Sabah and Sarawak formed Malaysia under the
Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) with the assurance that our religious and
cultural rights would be respected. What we are seeing now is a blatant
betrayal of that promise.
āThese allegations ā if true ā prove that the federal government and
institutions like UiTM have no regard for the feelings or beliefs of the
indigenous people of Sabah and Sarawak,ā the societies claimed in a
statement.
They said UiTM was created to support Bumiputera students, not to impose religious conformity. The societies stressed non-Muslim students should not be subjected to
dakwah programmes or any kind of forced religious indoctrination.
āIt is deeply offensive to the followers of other religions in Sabah
and Sarawak who are now being treated as second-class citizens in their
own homeland. āHow dare the federal government allow this kind of disrespect to
persist? Have they forgotten that Sabah and Sarawak are equal partners
in Malaysia, not colonies to be manipulated? Do the leaders in Putrajaya
not understand that our peopleās trust and goodwill are being shattered
by such actions?ā said the statement.
The groups demanded an immediate and public explanation from Minister
of Higher Education Datuk Seri Zambry Abdul Kadir on the issue. āWhat are you doing to protect the constitutional rights of
non-Muslim Bumiputera students? Enough is enough. The people of Sabah
and Sarawak will not stand by while our cultural and religious identity
is systematically undermined,ā the group said.
āThis is not just about religion ā it is about respect, fairness, and
the future of Malaysia as a multicultural nation. We demand justice,
accountability, and an end to this blatant disregard for the feelings
and rights of other religious communities in Sabah and Sarawak.ā
The statement was signed by Global Human Rights Federation Malaysia
deputy president Peter John Jaban; Borneoās Plight in Malaysia
Foundation president Daniel John Jambun; Sabah Sarawak Rights Australia
New Zealand president Robert Pei; Republic of Sabah North Borneo
president Moses Anap; Persatuan Pembangunan Sosial Komuniti Sabah
president Jovilis Majami; Pertubuhan Kebajikan Rumpun Dayak Sabah
president Cleftus Stephen Mojingol; and Forum Adat Dataran Tanah Tinggi
Borneo advisor Ricky Ganang.
The issue has also caught the attention of Michael Kong ā special
assistant to Sarawak Democratic Action Party chairman Chong Chieng Jen ā
and human rights activist and lawyer Siti Kasim.
Author Preeta Samarasan recently claimed on Facebook that non-Muslim
UiTM students were being forced to attend Islamic events and alleged
UiTM required students in certain degree programmes to fulfil a
conversion quota before they can graduate.
She was commenting on an allegation by a UiTM undergraduate that the
higher learning institution is forcing non-Muslim Sabah and Sarawak
Bumiputeras to attend spiritual seminars in mosques.
Surviving the Holocaust: Uprisings and the End of the Third Reich
Extermination Camps
The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.
By summer 1942, deportations were systematic across those parts of Europe occupied by the Nazis. The convoys which arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau came from Poland, but also from western and southern Europe. Hitler issued an order for all Polish Jews to be killed before December 1942.
The United States refused to publish an official denunciation of the extermination of Europeās Jews, despite being well informed by clandestine reports and alerted by telegrams.
News of the Soviet victory in Stalingrad reached the Warsaw ghetto.The course of the war was starting to tip in the Alliesā favor, and the Third Reichās armies were being pushed back.
For the survivors of the ghetto, there was nothing left to lose. In April 1943, the ghetto rose up. In August, then in October 1943, the prisoners in Treblinka and Sobibor revolted.
But Himmler ordered the units of Special Action 1005 to erase all trace of the genocide in the extermination camps.
On the morning of 3 November 1943, the liquidation of the Majdanek camp began: Jews were shot dead in ditches.
By nightfall, 18,000 people had died. In all the death camps, the men of Special Action 1005 disinterred bodies and built huge pyres, grinding the ashes so no trace remained. The gas chambers, the crematoriums, the shacks; everything was destroyed.
The Allied advance pushed ahead at greater pace and Hungary considered switching sides and joining them.
In March 1944, the Wehrmacht occupied the country, and the deportation of 437,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz began several weeks later. As the noose tightened on the Nazi regime, caught between the Red Army to the east and to the west by the Anglo-Americans who had landed in Normandy in June 1944, many camps were evacuated between August and November of that year, amid scenes of untold chaos and violence.
When the Red Army entered Auschwitz, Treblinka and Majdanek, the camps had ceased to operate and were practically empty; only those too weak to have been āevacuatedā were still there. In the eyes of certain high-ranking Nazis like Himmler, salvation was now a matter of negotiating a surrender, but the opportunity quickly evaporated. Hitler then Goebbels committed suicide, as the Red Army entered Berlin.
On 8 May, Germany surrendered unconditionally, and the Third Reich was at an end. Himmler was captured at the end of May by the British and also committed suicide.
With the end of the Second World War, the Allies began to organize the return of prisoners of war and deportees. Fewer than 1,000 people survived the death camps of Chelmno, Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor, out of 1.85 million deported.
Those who made it home felt like the last of the Jews. In six years of war and 12 years of power, Hitler had annihilated nearly all of Europeās Jews.