Photo: U.S. Navy Cleaning Mosques Now?

12/30/2001

[MississippiMan]

U.S. Navy corpsman HM1 Russell Scott, from Brooklyn, NY, takes a break from cleaning a damaged mosque for a moment of prayer, at Kandahar International Airport December 29, 2001. (Rob Curtis/Pool via Reuters)

[MississippiMan]

Is this standard warfare? Do we clean up damaged churches in war, as well? (Yes, I do realize there are no viable churches in Afghanistan but the question is still valid.)

MM

[Dane]

They may have been looking for intelligence during their "clean up".

[okie01]

"Is this standard warfare? Do we clean up damaged churches in war, as well?"

The corpsman may himself be a Muslim.

In any event, it does no harm. And such action would have beneficial propaganda value, both locally and throughout Islam.

Good move, I'd say.

[DWSUWF]

I don't understand the photo...

The words: 'cleaning' and 'mosques' so close together led me to believe that we'd be treated to a scene of a bulldozer leveling one of these grottoes of Satan.

[BunnySlippers]

The corpsman may himself be a Muslim.

In another photo that was taken along with this one was the Marine that was a Pashtun and was one of the few Pashtun speaking Americans in the group. His family was from Afghanistan originally and he was eagerly awaiting his American citizenship. After cleaning the mosque ... he prayed in it.

[LoisHunt]

Oh, we've gotten ourselves into a passel of social work in Afghanistan, for sure. Notice the documentaries on CNN and MSNBC about how poor their schools are and the kids being so eager to learn. We will be spending billions in Afghanistan to rationalize the war as really being in the interests of the Afghan people.

[boris]

"The words: 'cleaning' and 'mosques' so close together led me to believe that we'd be treated to a scene of a bulldozer leveling one of these grottoes of Satan."

My thoughts exactly.

Flense. A nice word, meaning to strip the flesh from the bones. As in, "We should flense the Mosque which sits as an abomination on the Dome of The Rock in Jerusalem."

A consummation devoutly to be wished. Clean rock, unpolluted, and ready for the rebuilt Temple.

--Boris

[knighthawk]

LOL! Bump for a good one!

[Otis Mukinfus]

Flense. A nice word, meaning to strip the flesh from the bones. As in, "We should flense the Mosque which sits as an abomination on the Dome of The Rock in Jerusalem."

A consummation devoutly to be wished. Clean rock, unpolluted, and ready for the rebuilt Temple.

And in your version of the world we would also kill the U.S. Marine, since he is not of a faith that is acceptable to you...

[oxi-nato]

good move, yeah right?

with lazy american and nato troops sitting on their butts in kosovo, over 113 christian churches were blown up by nato and american backed islamic terrorists, the kla!

luckily a few are still under nato guard as we speak today from islamic thugs like the kla!

america has no respect for christianity! kosovo was proof of this!

[Otis Mukinfus]

Sorry. I meant to say Navy Corpsman

[George W. Bush]

america has no respect for christianity! kosovo was proof of this!

Oxi, this isn't news to us. We live here. I'm not sure if you grasp how separate church and state are in the States. As in Europe, the Left attacks the church and uses the legitimate separation of functions to persecute our rights to freedom of religion. Don't hold your breath waiting for any change in the anti-Christian policies of the U.S.

[George W. Bush]

bump

[TheLooseThread]

Unless he told the reporter that he was taking a break from "mopping up" and the reporter thought he meant cleaning.

[Hila]

Totally opposite to what the Muslims would do if they were on Christian sites and they are known to desecrate, blow away, burn Christian churches. Why are our armed forces involved in preserving the evil of such religion; or it is just one of those goofy photos taking one muslim soldier's moment of "prayer"?

[crystalk]

Acceptable in Mecca maybe, or even Afghanistan, but not on the Temple Mount and not in America.

[RnMomof7]

Note the 'soldier' has no shoes on..I wonder if he was Muslim before the propaganda war of "Islam means Peace"

I also wonder if he is allowed to do his daily prayers to Mecca while on patrol,thus endangering the well being of the other troops.

It would be interesting to know if Christians are allowed to pause for their prayer or if observant Jews can cease war on the Sabbath

[boris]

"And in your version of the world we would also kill the U.S. Marine, since he is not of a faith that is acceptable to you..."

And how do you reach that risible conclusion?

Please explain your "logic".

[spycatcher]

It makes for good PR propaganda, like the food drops did