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."
That “Fascist, Racist, Hindu Supremacist and Nazi” Narendra Modi by Hugh Fitzgerald
Sunday, August 25, 2019
PM Narendra Modi
Jihad Watch : What was it that Prime Minister Modi of India did in early August
that was so terrible?
His government announced that it had decided to
scrap Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, which since 1949 had
conferred a special status on the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) –
the only Muslim-majority state in India — allowing it to be nearly
autonomous, except in areas like foreign policy and defense. Until now
J&K has been able to mostly govern itself, even having its own
constitution and flag. Now its status will be that of a “union
territory,” meaning that India’s central government in New Delhi will
gain much more control over the area’s affairs.
This change has Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan, foaming at the mouth.
In a series of tweets on August 18, he alleged that Muslims in India
were being “disenfranchised” and “RSS goons were on the rampage.” But no Muslim citizens have been “disenfranchised.” He
compared the Indian government to those who ruled Nazi Germany. Khan
posted: “India has been captured, as Germany had been captured by Nazis,
by a fascist, racist Hindu supremacist ideology and leadership. This
threatens 9 million Kashmiris under siege in IOK [Indian occupied
Kashmir] for over two weeks which should have sent alarm bells ringing
across the world with UN observers being sent there.”
Now let’s see. Which Muslims have been “disenfranchised” — that is,
citizens deprived of the legitimate right to vote? So far, none. Are RSS
(a Hindu nationalist group, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) “goons..on the
rampage”? Are Muslims being attacked all over India? Between May 2015
and December 2018, a total of 36 Muslims were killed in 12 Indian
states, according to Human Rights Watch. Compare that to the 166 Hindus
(and Jews) killed in the single attack by Muslim terrorists in Mumbai in
2008.
Or consider that in the same period, May 2015 to December 2018,
hundreds of Hindus, Sikhs, and other non-Muslims, including Indian army
personnel, were killed by Muslim terrorists, some of them trained in
Pakistan. Who is on the rampage? Who are the goons? Below are eye-opening 2015-2017 statistics for terrorist incidents
(those for 2018 were unavailable) in India. Most, though not all, of
these incidents of terrorism, were carried out by Muslims.
Terrorist incidents in India Year Number of incidents Deaths Injuries 2017 1000 470 702 2016 1,025 467 788 2015 884 387 649
Imran Khan claims hysterically that “the threat also
extends to Pakistan, the minorities in India and in fact the very
fabric of Nehru and Gandhi’s India. One can simply Google to understand
the link between the Nazi ideology and ethnic cleansing and genocide
ideology of the RSS-BJP [Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-Bharatiya Janata
Party] founding fathers.”
He went on to claim that Indian Muslims in India face oppression and
discrimination: “Already four million Indian Muslims face detention
camps and cancellation of citizenship. [The] world must take note as
this genie is out of the bottle and the doctrine of hate and genocide,
with RSS goons on the rampage, will spread unless the international
community acts now to stop it.”
What “detention camps” for Muslims does Imran Khan have in mind? The
Indian government has made plans, in the single State of Assam, to
detain those migrants, many but not all of whom are Muslim, who cannot
prove that they or their families were citizens before 1971. Why 1971?
That was the year when war broke out in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)
and many Muslims fled into the Indian state of West Bengal to avoid the
fighting, but never returned to Bangladesh. These are the “four million
Indian Muslims” whom he claims face “cancellation of citizenship,” but
who never obtained legal citizenship in the first place; they were
refugees from Bangladesh who simply remained.
A comparison of how Muslims have fared in India with how Hindus have
done in Pakistan and Bangladesh is revealing. Muslims constituted 9.8%
of the Indian population in the 1951 census. Now the Muslim percentage
of the Indian population has gone up by 50%, to 14.5%. Meanwhile, since
Partition in 1949, in Pakistan (formerly West Pakistan), the Hindu
population has shrunk from 15% to 1.6%. In Bangladesh (formerly East
Pakistan), the Hindu population has gone from 35% to 10.5%. Clearly it
is Hindus, not Muslims, who are suffering.
Not content with labeling Narendra Modi a “fascist,” “racist,” and
“Hindu supremacist,” Imran Khan claims that his regime is a worldwide
threat: “The world must also seriously consider the safety and security
of India’s nuclear arsenal in the control of the fascist, racist Hindu
supremacist Modi government. This is an issue that impacts not just the
region but the world.”
Prime Minister Khan shows no signs of tamping down his hysterical
invective. The “fascist, racist Hindu supremacist Modi government” has
done nothing more terrible than cease to allow Muslim-majority Jammu and
Kashmir to exist as an autonomous state. It will now come under greater
control of the national government. Modi’s move did not occur in a
vacuum. It was a response to three decades of attacks on the Hindu
Pandits of Kashmir by local Muslims.
Horrible things have happened in Kashmir. But the scrapping of
Article 370 of the Indian Constitution is not among them. Imran Khan
would have you believe that atrocities have been, and are being,
committed against the Muslims, in Jammu and Kashmir. But the most
telling statistic about J&K is this: in 1990, there were between
300,000 and 600,000 Kashmiri Pandits (Brahmins) in Kashmir; now there
are fewer than 3,000. That is a reduction in the Hindu Pandit population
of between 99 and 99.5%. What could be more damning to the Muslim case?
The killings of the helpless Pandits led those who survived to flee
their ancestral homeland in Kashmir for places further south in India
where, having abandoned their homes and lands, they arrived
impoverished.. The story of what happened to the Kashmiri Pandits has
seldom been told in the Western media. (In this respect, it is like the
failure of the Western media to discuss the 900,000 Jews who from 1948
to 1951 fled pogroms in Arab lands). No one in the Western media has
mentioned it even now, when Kashmir is so much in the news, with the
Pakistanis and Indian Muslims raging about Prime Minister Modi’s
“facist, racist, supremacist” change in the status of J&K.
Perhaps
now that there will be less autonomy in J&K, and likely a more
robust Indian army presence, some of those Pandits will be brave enough
to return. The Indian government would do well, right now, to go firmly on the
offensive. Modi himself should remind Imran Khan what happened to the
Pandits of Kashmir when the Muslims exercised their autonomy in the
state. The “fascist, racist, Nazi” Prime Minister Modi should also let
Prime Minister Khan know how many terrorist attacks by Muslims on Hindus
in India have taken place in the last few decades, and how many victims
there have been.
He might even remind Khan – whose howls of rage can
well be imagined – and the world about the centuries of Mughal rule,
during which there were 70-80 million Hindu victims of Muslim massacres.
And then he might, in a final fillip to Imran Khan, he might end with
this: “Prime Minister Khan, you describe me as adhering to a ‘fascist,
racist, supremacist ideology.’
Given that in the Qur’an Muslims are
described as ‘the best of peoples’ (3:110) and Quran 98:6, non-Muslims described as ‘the most vile of created beings,’ can you see why some might be
forgiven for thinking that Islam itself is a ‘supremacist ideology’?
Billions of non-Muslims would welcome your answer.”