The lead paragraph here says that the soldiers are "building bridges in Afghanistan." The bedrock assumption here is that the Afghans who come to worship in the mosque will see that the British built it and think, "Say, they aren't so bad after all."
And probably some will. But this assumption completely fails to take into account the fact that at least some of the people who go to the mosque, if not a majority, will see this act through the prism of a Qur'anic understanding: "And the Jews will not be pleased with thee, nor will the Christians, till thou follow their creed," (2:120), so the building of the mosque is just a strategem to that larger end, and the British should still be regarded with suspicion. The jihad ideology and Islamic supremacism, unchallenged, remain in place.
"Army helps build mosque," by Heather Butler for the Blackpool Gazette (thanks to Twostellas):
A TEAM of Fylde soldiers is building bridges in Afghanistan.Troops from the Weeton-based Second Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment (2 Yorks) arranged for the construction of a new mosque for members of the Afghan National Army (ANA) in Helmand province.
Local soldiers in the Shorabak Training Facility, near Camp Bastion, were without a place of worship when the project got underway in September.
The British Provincial Reconstruction Team arranged funding and a formal plan for the construction work. It also assigned a representative to oversee the build.
Major Marc Steventon, 2 Yorks Quartermaster at Camp Tombstone, was project manager on site to ensure everything went to plan.
He oversaw 40 local workers and made sure guidelines were being met and that the correct resources were being used.
Maj Steventon said: “The building of this mosque has been a great success. It has been built by local Afghans, using local resources and using local building techniques; all of which is hugely important and significant.”
Robert or anyone else,
What are the chances that muslims would actually use a mosque built by the dirty, lowly and impure infidels? Why some of those contributing to the construction project may even be Christian! There are many reasons why these projects should not see the light of day, particularly when the US Military takes on similar projects,( http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/016448.php ) but from a practical standpoint will a mosque built by infidels actually be utilized? Isn't more likely to be destroyed at first opportunity?
They're building bridges, all right. Bridges to dhimmitude.
Aren't the Afghanis running a huge opium operation? Didn't a Christian convert have to be smuggled out of the country to avoid the penalty for apostasy (death)? Weren't the Afghanis upset about a translation of the Qur'an? Didn't they just arrest a student for downloading material "harmful" to Islam? Is this the same Afghanistan that is threatening the Danish cartoonists?
Why oh why, would we help them build another mosque/arms storage facility/Al Qaeda recruitment center/jihad outpost?
Why are we paying the jazwa?
Funny. The true God of Abraham doesn't require a building to be worshipped in. Churches and Temples are nice, but not mandatory.
The Brits used to do a lot of stuff like that cause they always had large contingents of Muslim colonials. The thinking was keep them in the Army rather than some mahdi mosques.
Ross Kemp did a documentary recently where he went on tour with British soldiers in Afghanistan.
At one point, he confirmed that British soldiers are not allowed to fire on a mosque even if the Taliban have taken refuge there.
We didn't get to hear what the average squaddie thought of this.
Once upon a time the military was used to neutralize an enemy's war making capacity. Nowadays it engages in civil engineering projects in enemy countries in order to spread the ideology that makes that enemy so dangerous. Isn't the 21st century grand?
Hilarious.
The Afghanistan and Iraqi misadventures are classic Dhimmi behaviour.
Building mosques on the Hindu Kush whilst the NHS have to reuse needles.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=401657&in_page_id=1774
Yup, classic Dhimmitude.
"Ross Kemp did a documentary recently where he went on tour with British soldiers in Afghanistan.
At one point, he confirmed that British soldiers are not allowed to fire on a mosque even if the Taliban have taken refuge there.
We didn't get to hear what the average squaddie thought of this."
Posted by: Celsius
Trying to fight a war, as a police action, where one must not kill the enemy, and not destroy the buildings they, who must not be killed, are in.
Got it..