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."
European Parliament features Muslim designated as suspected terrorist speaking about ‘Islamophobia’
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Rober Spencer : “In the European Parliament, the sulphurous guests of a conference on ‘Islamophobia,'” translated from “Au Parlement européen, les sulfureux invités d’une conférence sur ‘l’islamophobie,'” by Jean-Loup Adenor, Marianne, May 6, 2022:
A
conference was organized at the initiative of Cojep, a pro-Turkey
association, at the European Parliament. His subject: “Islamophobia” and
the discrimination of which Muslims are victims. Among the speakers,
El-Yess Zareli, known as Elias d’Imzalene, the founder of the site
“Islam and Info,” a Salafist at the heart of the galaxy of political
Islam in France.
Once
again, a European institution was shown to be penetrated by
Brotherhood-Salafist ideologies. On Tuesday, May 3, a conference
organized by the pro-Turkey association Cojep was held at the European
Parliament, entitled “Contradictions and discrepancy between European
values and the law confirming respect for the principles of the French
Republic,” i.e., namely the 2021 law against separatism initiated by
Emmanuel Macron. The personalities present, far from being simple
believers or associations, defended an ultra-conservative and political
vision of the Muslim religion. Among them: the activist El-Yes Zarely,
known as Elias d’Imzalène, founder of the community site “Islam and
Info,” which lists anti-Muslim acts. Pro-Erdogan activist and ex-CCIF
member Feiza Ben Mohamed and political scientist, Islamologist and CNRS
research director François Burgat were also present.
This
meeting was made public by Elias d’Imzalène himself. “I was at the
European Parliament today to raise awareness among its deputies about
Islamophobia in France,” he posted on his Twitter account.
“Ilies d’Imzalène and Feïza Ben Mohamed are politico-religious activists,” explains Naëm Bestandji, author of Shroud of feminism (caressing Islamism in the direction of the veil)
and secular activist. It is not Islam as a religion that is in question
here, but Islamism. An extremist, political and identity interpretation
of Islam to which they adhere. And for good reason: Elias d’Imzalène
notably considered that France was leading “a policy of apartheid, of
ethno-confessional segregation.” In the book La Communauté by Raphaëlle Bacqué and Ariane Chemin, we also learn that, “during a search of his home, the police found a copy of Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler’s program book”.
During
the conference held on Tuesday, Elias d’Imzalène considered that “the
2004 laws [on the prohibition of ostentatious religious symbols in
schools], 2010 and 2015” constitute “an attack on the visibility of
Muslims. “It is the Muslims who are targeted by the laws of separatism,”
added Feïza Ben Mohamed. Comment by Naëm Bestandji: “Any opposition to
the sexist concept of women’s veiling, to Salafism, and to the ideology
of the Muslim Brotherhood, is considered an attack against Islam and
against all Muslims. There is the desire for a return to the offense of
blasphemy. Hence the use of the term ‘Islamophobia.'”
According
to the essayist, this is nevertheless the heart of the strategy of
Brotherhood-Salafism in France: “To make people believe that all Muslims
are like them, that their radicalism is simply Islam and their
fundamentalism is a simple expression of piety. It is in this way that
they advance the idea that they do not speak in the name of a political
ideology, but of all Muslims.” So this notion of “Islamophobia” is used
to counter any criticism of political Islam. “They came to say, in
short, that the fight against Islamism led in particular in France is a
screen hiding a pure and simple persecution of Muslims….
