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Mosque repair viewed as way to build goodwill
Los Angeles Times via Seattle Times ^ | May 23, 2004 | Tony Perry

Posted on 05/23/2004 1:11:46 PM PDT by sarcasm

FALLUJAH, Iraq — Marines and Navy Seabees are seeking Iraqi contractors to repair and refurbish mosques in an effort to dispel the notion that the United States has declared war on Islam.

The effort is proceeding more quickly in the surrounding farming villages than in Fallujah, the Sunni Triangle city where Marines and insurgents fought three bloody weeks of combat.

The Marines have a growing list of mosques that villagers would like help in repairing, renovating or expanding. Few, if any, village mosques were damaged during the fight, but the Americans said fixing the mosques could elicit more goodwill in return than almost any other construction project.

(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: contracts; fallujah; iraq; marines; mosques; navy; rebuildingiraq; seabees
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1 posted on 05/23/2004 1:11:47 PM PDT by sarcasm
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To: sarcasm

Push the damn button now!

2 posted on 05/23/2004 1:14:11 PM PDT by aomagrat (Where arms are not to be carried, it is well to carry arms.")
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To: sarcasm

PUT IN CAMERAS AND LISTENING DEVICES SO WHEN THE FIRST RAGHEAD IMAN STARTS HIS CRAP, HE CAN BE HEARD, FILMED AND THEN FOLLOWED AND SENT TO ALLAH.


3 posted on 05/23/2004 1:20:20 PM PDT by MarkT
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To: sarcasm
How frigging stupid! WE are the ones who pay for this.

We should blow them ALL up, preferably when they're full.

4 posted on 05/23/2004 1:23:53 PM PDT by Wumpus Hunter (<a href="http://moveon.org" target="blank">Communist front group for Kerry</a>)
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To: sarcasm
Repairing the gates to ... whatever?

It might work.

5 posted on 05/23/2004 1:26:56 PM PDT by Stagerite
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To: sarcasm
Repair the mosque and you are weak and ready to be conqured. Break the mosque and you are the enemy of islam and must be conqured. The only thing they really understand is if you totally flatten the mosque, burn the city, put the citizens' heads on pikes and tell the other cities not to make us do that to them.
6 posted on 05/23/2004 1:46:46 PM PDT by rageaholic
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To: rageaholic

Vaporization.....Hmmmmm, makes one think.


7 posted on 05/23/2004 1:53:59 PM PDT by JamesA ( The more you try to change my convictions the more resolved I am to keep them.)
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To: JamesA
Vaporization

No, too clean. Heads on pikes has a 7th Century clarity that even these dishrag Untermensch can grasp.

8 posted on 05/23/2004 1:57:24 PM PDT by rageaholic
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To: sarcasm

My guess is it's unlikely the US Marines could spend my money remodeling arab mosques without the consent or knowledge of George W Bush...

I don't presume to know the mind of God, but I can't believe for a second that the God that I worship is too keen on this maneuvre...I know that I'm not...


9 posted on 05/23/2004 1:58:58 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: Wumpus Hunter
Reason #23,569 that no one addresses you as 'Mr. President.'
10 posted on 05/23/2004 1:59:38 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad (Rising waves, what motive is behind your impulse? The desire to reach upwards.)
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To: sarcasm

Probably a good idea from the 'hearts and minds' standpoint - most Moslems want a quiet life, despite the bloodthirsty ravings of some of the posters on this thread - but I wonder about the First Amendment aspects of this.


11 posted on 05/23/2004 2:04:12 PM PDT by Grut
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To: sarcasm
Both al Qaeda and the UberPatriot UberKonservative Know-Nothing Know-Better-Than-The-President Armchair Warriors are weeping in their beers.
12 posted on 05/23/2004 2:04:44 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad (Rising waves, what motive is behind your impulse? The desire to reach upwards.)
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To: sarcasm

Not one mosque should be repaired or rebuilt until the WTC's twin towers are. End of discussion.


13 posted on 05/23/2004 2:25:38 PM PDT by Prime Choice (Love your enemies... It really ticks 'em off!)
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To: sarcasm
One would think that it is illegal to spend federal dollars on rebuilding a house of worship. Separation of church and state and all that.

Our time would be better spent converting them to the one true religion than helping to rebuild their satanic mosques.

14 posted on 05/23/2004 2:26:39 PM PDT by Batrachian
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To: sarcasm

I'm past caring. If what we're doing is all coming out of American pockets, get out. It isn't worth it.


15 posted on 05/23/2004 2:35:35 PM PDT by gcruse (http://gcruse.typepad.com/)
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But you don't care anyway.
16 posted on 05/23/2004 2:38:24 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad (Rising waves, what motive is behind your impulse? The desire to reach upwards.)
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To: Grut
most Moslems want a quiet life

Yeah. Right

17 posted on 05/23/2004 2:40:29 PM PDT by paul51
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To: aomagrat
Push the damn button now!

Be patient Grasshopper!

Islamic terrorist will use a dirty bomb soon.
Mr. Justification will be unleashed.

Aomagrat, I have a taste for a mushroom salad
with Caesar Salad Dressing all of a sudden.


18 posted on 05/23/2004 2:50:36 PM PDT by Major_Risktaker (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: rageaholic
"Heads on pikes has a 7th Century clarity that even these dishrag Untermensch can grasp."

I beg to differ. Just send a bunch of horny American women there with dog leashes. They'll get the message and straighten up fast:)

19 posted on 05/23/2004 3:01:38 PM PDT by BobS
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To: rageaholic
Seig, heil! (burp)
20 posted on 05/23/2004 3:14:11 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad (Rising waves, what motive is behind your impulse? The desire to reach upwards.)
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