US Army Chaplain speaks: I Never Knew His Name - The true face of Muslim martyrdom.
I Never Knew His Name
The true face of Muslim martyrdom.
By Chaplain Carlos C. Huerta
Mosul, Iraq — It is October 11 as I write this, the day before Yom Kippur. The Day of Atonement is supposed to be a day of fast, reflection, and prayer for the Jews: a time when I reflect on my own actions and intentions from the previous year. But the images I carry into my fast are sad ones, of someone else’s child, a Muslim child. There is blood spattered on my uniform despite the fact that I haven’t been hit or wounded. And yet it is B-positive blood, my own blood, mixed with the blood of a nine-year old Iraqi boy who was observing his fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Read on . . .
Got the story from the Iraqi blog, Iraq the Model.
- Eric
The true face of Muslim martyrdom.
By Chaplain Carlos C. Huerta
Mosul, Iraq — It is October 11 as I write this, the day before Yom Kippur. The Day of Atonement is supposed to be a day of fast, reflection, and prayer for the Jews: a time when I reflect on my own actions and intentions from the previous year. But the images I carry into my fast are sad ones, of someone else’s child, a Muslim child. There is blood spattered on my uniform despite the fact that I haven’t been hit or wounded. And yet it is B-positive blood, my own blood, mixed with the blood of a nine-year old Iraqi boy who was observing his fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Read on . . .
Got the story from the Iraqi blog, Iraq the Model.
- Eric
posted by Eric at 11/13/2005 09:40:00 AM
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