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."
NOT so great britain : Muslim who murdered MP says he did it ‘for Islam’ and to ‘send a message to his colleagues’
Friday, April 08, 2022
Ali Harbi Ali
Robert Spencer : “I killed David Amess to save Muslims, Ali Harbi Ali tells jury,” by Kieran Gair and Duncan Gardham, The Times, April 7, 2022:
The alleged terrorist killer of
Sir David Amess has told a court that he wanted to kill a politician to
stop him from “harming Muslims” in Syria. Ali Harbi Ali, 26, told
the jury at the Old Bailey that he wanted to “make hijrah”, to travel
and fight for Islamic State, but he found it too difficult to get there.
He
is accused of stabbing Amess, the Conservative MP, more than 20 times
during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, on October 15 last
year. The prosecution alleges that he had planned an attack for years
and considered other MPs including the cabinet minister Michael Gove and
Mike Freer, the Tory MP for Finchley & Golders Green.
Giving
evidence on Thursday, Ali said he decided to kill Amess because of his
voting record on foreign policy including airstrikes in Syria. “I
decided to do it because I felt that if I could kill someone who made
decisions to kill Muslims, it could prevent further harm to those
Muslims,” Ali said. “He voted previously in parliament, not just him . .
. I decided if I couldn’t make hijrah, if I couldn’t help the Muslims
[in Syria], I would do something here.”
Asked what difference
killing Amess would make, Ali said: “For one, he can’t vote again. If he
had previous for doing votes like that he won’t do it in the future,
and perhaps send a message to his colleagues.” …I thought if I couldn’t go join Islamic State, I should try and do something here to help Muslims here.”
Earlier
Ali told the court that he was contacted by police in 2014… The alleged
terrorist said he was interviewed by police who asked him about Twitter
accounts and how he felt about the government. “I [would just] nod, say
yes and they’ll leave you alone afterwards and they did,” Ali said.
He told the jury that he was supposed to have two meetings but “they [the police] were happy with the first one”…. Asked whether he regretted stabbing Amess to death, he said: “No.” Ali
told the court he had been prepared to die fighting for Isis in Syria
and that he would not have minded if the terrorist group had claimed
responsibility for the attack on Amess.
He said: “If you encourage
someone to an act of jihad, it’s a good thing.” Asked whether he was
proud of his actions, he said: “To be proud of an act of jihad is a
dangerous thing.” Ali said he carried out the attack “for Islam” and that “if Islamic State didn’t exist, I would have done the same thing”.
Earlier he said he would not describe the killing as murder because “I don’t think it’s unlawful”….
