APAD: Paradise lies in the shadow of the swords.

Background:

    The Prophet of Islam exhorted jihadists to battle.

    https://islam.worldofislam.info/

 

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I read in a Michael Dibdin mystery, Medusa, when the character Alberto, a stiff

ruthless old fossil and Italian colonel in the military intelligence service,

reflected on the phrase on a WWI memorial on his way off work in Rome,

 

    `Il Paradiso è all'Ombra delle Spade.' Yes, he thought. `Paradise lies in

    the Shadow of the Swords.' ...

    

    The sun had already slid down below the line of rooftops to the west,

    casting shadows that reached across the broad boulevard. Alberto moved like

    a tank through the groups of afternoon shoppers shuffling about as aimlessly

    as the windblown dead leaves of the lindens that lined the kerb.

    

    All'Ombra delle Spade. He had lived there all his life, but what did they

    know of such things, these infantile adults in their quilted acrylic jackets

    and two-tone designer sports shoes? He tried not to despise them, although

    he knew that they would despise him. They were rather to be pitied. Yes, get

    the latest style clothing, the latest mobile phone, the most powerful

    motorbike, the most fashionable pedigree dog. Get it all, if you can! It

    won't make you happy, but it may eventually bring you what you least desire

    but most need: the knowledge that happiness is an illusion.