The Muslim chaplain on board the USS George W Bush aircraft carrier
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(27 Aug 2014) The US
(27 Aug 2014) The US Navy has three Muslim chaplains employed to administer to the growing number of sailors who follow Islam.
One of them, Lieutenant Haneef Mubarak, is serving on board the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea.
In the Persian Gulf, it's business as usual for the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier.
About 20 flights a day leave the to help with air support in Iraq.
But for a few members of the crew, the job has nothing to do with combat.
The US Navy has 850 chaplains. Three of them are of the Muslim faith.
Lieutenant Haneef Mubarak is one of them, assigned to the USS George H.W. Bush.
He says the number of Muslim chaplains is bound to rise:
"The number of Muslims are definitely rising in American society so therefore, it is going to rise in the DOD (Department of Defence) and thus in the Navy."
Mubarak serves the Carrier Strike Group that supports the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier.
So he splits his time between the carrier and the supporting ships.
Muslim chaplains were introduced to the US Navy in 1996.
Mubarak says he knows of 25 Muslims on USS George H.W. Bush but only sees about 12 regularly.
He leads prayers 5 times a day but is also there to counsel the Muslims on the ship.
"I am here to support and provide for Muslim worship. The fundamental I guess actions of all chaplains is to provide for their own faith group. I will never be asked to lead Christian worship and I couldn't, as a Muslim. A Catholic priest would never been asked to lead protestant services so the navy hired us specifically to provide for the worshippers in our faith group".
But as chaplain, Mubarak helps sailors of all religious backgrounds.
"... we also facilitate for others so therefore as a Muslim chaplain, not being a Christian or a Jew, if a Christian or Jewish sailor approached me about worship, my responsibility would be to put him or her in contact with a Christian minister or rabbi to facilitate that worship. But we have another job we also care for everyone,".
The ongoing violence across the Middle East can sometimes cause anxieties among those serving with the US navy from a Muslim background.
"So if some sailors, especially when the media is hot and heavy, covering issues taking place in the Muslim world, I would have sailors approach me and ask me about different aspects of Islamic worship," he says.
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One of them, Lieutenant Haneef Mubarak, is serving on board the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea.
In the Persian Gulf, it's business as usual for the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier.
About 20 flights a day leave the to help with air support in Iraq.
But for a few members of the crew, the job has nothing to do with combat.
The US Navy has 850 chaplains. Three of them are of the Muslim faith.
Lieutenant Haneef Mubarak is one of them, assigned to the USS George H.W. Bush.
He says the number of Muslim chaplains is bound to rise:
"The number of Muslims are definitely rising in American society so therefore, it is going to rise in the DOD (Department of Defence) and thus in the Navy."
Mubarak serves the Carrier Strike Group that supports the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier.
So he splits his time between the carrier and the supporting ships.
Muslim chaplains were introduced to the US Navy in 1996.
Mubarak says he knows of 25 Muslims on USS George H.W. Bush but only sees about 12 regularly.
He leads prayers 5 times a day but is also there to counsel the Muslims on the ship.
"I am here to support and provide for Muslim worship. The fundamental I guess actions of all chaplains is to provide for their own faith group. I will never be asked to lead Christian worship and I couldn't, as a Muslim. A Catholic priest would never been asked to lead protestant services so the navy hired us specifically to provide for the worshippers in our faith group".
But as chaplain, Mubarak helps sailors of all religious backgrounds.
"... we also facilitate for others so therefore as a Muslim chaplain, not being a Christian or a Jew, if a Christian or Jewish sailor approached me about worship, my responsibility would be to put him or her in contact with a Christian minister or rabbi to facilitate that worship. But we have another job we also care for everyone,".
The ongoing violence across the Middle East can sometimes cause anxieties among those serving with the US navy from a Muslim background.
"So if some sailors, especially when the media is hot and heavy, covering issues taking place in the Muslim world, I would have sailors approach me and ask me about different aspects of Islamic worship," he says.
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