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I don't know why the conventional thought is to lay off of mosques. If the bad guys are in there too bad, it's a target and I would flatten it.

We knocked down plenty of historical churches and monasteries in WWII.

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I don't know why the conventional thought is to lay off of mosques. If the bad guys are in there too bad, it's a target and I would flatten it.

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It creates more terrorists

Our guys could use some live fire practice. Must get boring with all the dress rehearsals

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Flatten another mosque, and another

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You trying to radicalize the good ones?

Are we demanding payment from the Philippines?

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The military said it was making headway in the town but was proceeding carefully so as not to destroy mosques

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At least 200 militants are holed up in a corner of the town. An estimated 500 to 1,000 civilians are trapped there, some being held as human shields

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Are these specific mosques 1200 year old wonders of the world or brick and mortar buildings. If destroying a mosque housing combatants saves even one civilian life by ending the conflict sooner fricking do it

Fund the rebuilding if it's that important. The people it offends obviously aren't the civilians of the town being held hostage. The Muslims that take offense to this international are a lost cause and your eventual enemies anyway if they value material over life. If there were ever a radical Christian group terrorizing a population abroad I could give two shits about a church being destroyed to save civilians. Just rebuild it

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You trying to radicalize the good ones?

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If a group of 200 radical Christians in Egypt took a town hostage and Egyptian forces level a church the combatants were hiding in would you radicalize? Or just let them rebuild it realizing the goal is the combatants regardless of what material building houses them?

If the former you were not "good" to begin with, you don't care about the people lives and never will. you were a ticking time bomb anyway.

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You trying to radicalize the good ones?

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It says a lot about Islam that this question could even be seriously asked.

Re-reading the thread if he meant leveling mosques just to level mosques yes that would radicalize good ones.

If he meant to hell with avoiding them in this case while civilians lives are at stake I agree, and it wouldn't radicalize any good ones.

If you take such offense to another country's own building being collateral damage when that other country is defending its own citizens you are not "good."

And the fact that in this case avoiding mosques is taken into such consideration does indeed say something about Islam

But I agree with you that attacking a building just because it's a mosque or killing people just because they are Muslim obviously would be met with a retaliation, as would be the case with any group.




If murderous combatants were hiding out in a church in a foreign country that government should have no hesitation doing what they need to do to save lives. Christians in different countries could give a frick about brick and mortar when the reason behind its damage was clear.
The scary thing about Islam is how radically devout many are to all things Islam without any logic being applied. There are many that would want to kill simply to avenge their Gods place of worship being damaged. That's barbaric, and nothing like being upset when innocent westerners are killed just to be killed

Having said all that of course they are not all bad, and I wish nothing ill of the ones that aren't