Gurkha does his job and is going to be punished for it.

I hear the Russians did the same when they were in Afghanistan, but of course, British political correctness will alway be the pen which is mightier than the sword. :(

This Gurkha did what gurkhas do best. He deserves a medal, not discipline. Maybe the PM will pardon him. They do that when the public outcry gets too loud sometimes (or so my british friends tell me.)
 
He deserves a bloody medal - he could not bring back the body because he was under fire, so he cut of the head instead, initiative and courage, perhaps he could asked the Taliban nicely if they would stop firing so that he could take the whole body - what [EDITED for Language]!

Having said that, watch the sales of Kukris go up after this goes out to the world.
 
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The Britain of old is long dead.

In the days of Empire, a Brit would not have even blinked at him doing that. In fact, it probably would have been whet he expected would happen.

Hell, I'm an American, and I'd like to lop their heads off with a kukri.
 
The source said: ‘The soldier has been removed from duty and flown home. There is no sense of glory involved here, more a sense of shame. He should not have done what he did.’

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Then what should he do? cut off the ears & eyelids?
Back in the days when they brought back the heads of Japanese and Germans (no pun intended, it was war) those surviving enemies were probably double-checking their heads if they were intact. During the Falklands war, Argentinian soldiers just wet their pants knowing "The Gurkhas are coming!" and fled off.
 
Like they said in the article they do occasionally return body parts. Whats the problem? Give the RAF the correct return address and return the head airmail with "interest." No harm no foul:D
On a more appropriate note if not burying their dead whole causes them morale problems it sounds like the sensible thing would be to do more of it.
 
They ought to give him a medal. Compliment him. Give him his Kukri back and send him out after telling him happy hunting.

Anyone who wants to know the truth about islam should read " The politicaly incorrect guide to Islam and the crusades". The LIE that is being perpetrated in the media concerning Islam being misunderstood, and that we ought to respect it etc. Is only to our own hurt. Islam IS THE religion of hate and terror.

Happyn hunting Gurkhas.
 
I agree, he should be rewarded. This is a stupid move on the British's part. :mad:

Anyone who wants to know the truth about islam should read " The politicaly incorrect guide to Islam and the crusades". The LIE that is being perpetrated in the media concerning Islam being misunderstood, and that we ought to respect it etc. Is only to our own hurt. Islam IS THE religion of hate and terror.
I have a hard time believing that Islam is that religion of hate and terror, but I do know that many spiteful and dangerous extremist and terrorist groups are Muslim. Christians were just as bad at one point. There have been warlike Buddhists. Many Jews believe they are God's chosen people - such an elitist attitude is not the kind to help you make friends. Bad people don't need a religion to be bad, it just helps unify them and give them a set of legitimate guidelines and beliefs to twist to their own advantage for their own ends.

Good people also don't need a religion to be good, it just helps to unify them and give them a set of legitimate guidelines and beliefs to follow for the benefit and personal growth of themselves and their neighbors.

I hope the righteous beheading of a Taliban leader by a Gurkha soldier does not become rant after rant against Islam. I have met good and bad people of different creeds. Bad men should be fought and won against, regardless of religious affiliation.
 
Bad people don't need a religion to be bad, it just helps unify them and give them a set of legitimate guidelines and beliefs to twist to their own advantage for their own ends.

Good people also don't need a religion to be good

Bad men should be fought and won against, regardless of religious affiliation.

This.:thumbup:
 
There may be good Muslims but Islam is a hate crime and every non-Muslim is its victim.
Organized Christian war against non-Christians was a long time ago. Speak to today.
As for us Jews, "chosen people" does not mean anything close to what you imply.

The British used to take a very different view of how to fight an enemy by using his own fears against him.
Kipling wrote about it.

The Grave of the Hundred Head

There's a widow in sleepy Chester
Who weeps for her only son;
There's a grave on the Pabeng River,
A grave that the Burmans shun;
And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri
Who tells how the work was done.


A Snider squibbed in the jungle,
Somebody laughed and fled,
And the men of the First Shikaris
Picked up their Subaltern dead,
With a big blue mark in his forehead
And the back blown out of his head.

Subadar Prag Tewarri,
Jemadar Hira Lal,
Took command of the party,
Twenty rifles in all,
Marched them down to the river
As the day was beginning to fall.

They buried the boy by the river,
A blanket over his face --
They wept for their dead Lieutenant,
The men of an alien race --
They made a samadh in his honor,
A mark for his resting-place.

For they swore by the Holy Water,
They swore by the salt they ate,
That the soul of Lieutenant Eshmitt Sahib
Should go to his God in state,
With fifty file of Burmans
To open him Heaven's gate.

The men of the First Shikaris
Marched till the break of day,
Till they came to the rebel village,
The village of Pabengmay --
A jingal covered the clearing,
Calthrops hampered the way.

Subadar Prag Tewarri,
Bidding them load with ball,
Halted a dozen rifles
Under the village wall;
Sent out a flanking-party
With Jemadar Hira Lal.

The men of the First Shikaris
Shouted and smote and slew,
Turning the grinning jingal
On to the howling crew.
The Jemadar's flanking-party
Butchered the folk who flew.

Long was the morn of slaughter,
Long was the list of slain,
Five score heads were taken,
Five score heads and twain;
And the men of the First Shikaris
Went back to their grave again,

Each man bearing a basket
Red as his palms that day,
Red as the blazing village --
The village of Pabengmay,
And the "drip-drip-drip" from the baskets
Reddened the grass by the way.

They made a pile of their trophies
High as a tall man's chin,
Head upon head distorted,
Set in a sightless grin,
Anger and pain and terror
Stamped on the smoke-scorched skin.

Subadar Prag Tewarri
Put the head of the Boh
On the top of the mound of triumph,
The head of his son below --
With the sword and the peacock-banner
That the world might behold and know.

Thus the samadh was perfect,
Thus was the lesson plain
Of the wrath of the First Shikaris --
The price of a white man slain;
And the men of the First Shikaris
Went back into camp again.

Then a silence came to the river,
A hush fell over the shore,
And Bohs that were brave departed,
And Sniders squibbed no more;
For the Burmans said
That a white man's head
Must be paid for with heads five-score.

There's a widow in sleepy Chester
Who weeps for her only son;
There's a grave on the Pabeng River,
A grave that the Burmans shun;
And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri
Who tells how the work was done.
 
I find this very tragic. Its unfortunate that the guy didn't have a camera/DNA kit but this is WAR and this is what happens. Israeli soldiers have been decapitated for years. [EDITED For Content] I could frankly give a [EDITED for Language] what the Taliban and the Muslims have to say. It is all media and political nonsense that the Muslims use against us as a weapon. I will start caring when they get their own house in order. If they want peace then they should be peaceful and contribute. If they want a Jihad then people are going to die. It is that simple.
 
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I think it is sad that Muslim communities don't stop the terrorism from within their own ranks. If young men stop joining or letting themselves be coerced into the "jihad" then the "jihad" cannot continue. And if, as many legitimate Muslims say, that this extremist jihad is illegitimate and not a righteous representation of Islam, then they should stomp it out like. I agree with CSM_GutPile in that, if they want peace, they should contribute to that effort.

There may be good Muslims but Islam is a hate crime and every non-Muslim is its victim.
Organized Christian war against non-Christians was a long time ago. Speak to today.
Even when speaking to today, you can't ignore the past.

From the rise of Papal power till just prior to WWI, the Christian nations of the "western world" had been gradually growing more and more powerful, resulting in a large conflict with the later and also expanding "Muslim world". One cannot deny that organized Christian war against non-Christians, however long ago, does not extremely long lasting effects. Roughly 400 years of Christians committing genocide, mass slavery, and conquest in the name of their God, their kings, and for their own gain can't be ignored.

But then again, neither can the genocide, mass slavery, and conquest of the Muslims be ignored. There is a reason why the non-Muslim Filipinos, Hindu Indians, and many native Africans, Christian or non-Christian, have such a loathing for Muslims. Turks' oppression of Greeks, Mogul massacres of Hindus, etc. Especially in the last half century, Islam has shown itself to be a powerful tool with which bad men rally other criminals to terrorize others, even oftentimes other Muslims. The Taliban was evil to the Afghan people, no supporter of Islam can deny it and support their denial with an intelligent argument. I say Islam can be a hate crime. Just as for 400 years, Christianity was misused for that end. The "misuse" is my opinion, I have met some that consider it justified.

So back to today... the Gurkha beheading the Taliban leader, that's no hate crime, that's justice. If the Gurkha had beheaded an innocent local civilian, the story would be very different. Same goes for another unrelated incident where Filipino policemen gunned down a radical Christian cult on one of the Filipino islands that was attacking locals with machetes. Bad men are bad men.

As for us Jews, "chosen people" does not mean anything close to what you imply.
Forgive my ignorance, I'm sorry.
 
He deserves a bloody medal - he could not bring back the body because he was under fire, so he cut of the head instead, initiative and courage, perhaps he could asked the Taliban nicely if they would stop firing so that he could take the whole body - [EDITED for Language]!

Having said that, watch the sales of Kukris go up after this goes out to the world.

The Britain of old is long dead.

In the days of Empire, a Brit would not have even blinked at him doing that. In fact, it probably would have been whet he expected would happen.

Hell, I'm an American, and I'd like to lop their heads off with a kukri.

amen to both of those posts.
 
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I have a hard time believing that Islam is that religion of hate and terror,

The Christian bible was written by man with the influence of God guiding them. The Qur'an was supposedly written by Muhammad after an angel revealed Allah's final revelation to him. Hence, it is Allah's word and can't be refuted. There is no "interpretation" of the Qur'an if you are muslim, you can't argue about what it says.

The Qur'an clearly states that all non muslims are less than animals and should be put to death. If you don't do this, then you are not muslim and should be killed also.

Just a few of the hate filled passages.
8:12, We will cast terror into the hearts of non-Muslims. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.
8:65, Rouse the Muslims to the fight against non-Muslims because they are people without intelligence.
9:5, Then fight and slay the non-Muslims wherever ye find them,
9:14, Fight the non-Muslims, and God will punish them by your hands, cover them with shame.
9:28, O ye the Muslims! Truly the non-Muslims are unclean.
9:123, O ye Muslims! fight the non-Muslims who gird you about, and let them find firmness in you.
47:4, Therefore, when ye meet the non-Muslims, smite at their necks; At length.

Here's the Qur'an if you'd like to check.
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/quran/008.qmt.html

(passages borrowed from some site called faithfreedom.org, it was the first place I Googled that had them listed nicely)

This is without getting into what a sleazy pedophile Muhammad was for marrying a 6 year old.
 
I know this is a subject which can get under ones skin quite easily, but, please watch your language, descriptions and keep to the topic at hand.
 
Just in case some of you missed the comments below, this one I found quite fitting:

Political correctness and the battlefield really don't go together. If they are so concerned about being buried in one piece why do they blow themselves to bits?

Political correctness...:barf:
 
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