On 27 Aug 2004, at 7:15 pm, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
What is the stance of the Islamic community on armies attacking militants who take refuge inside mosques?
Well you probably won't get to know the opinions of those Muslims who are there. It seems most journalists are been rounded up to make way for a little bit of US-taxpayer-funded massacre.
Who is the desecrator:
- the armed men who take refuge inside the mosque and use it as a base
to attack enemies; or,
- those who attack the armed men inside the mosque?
In terms of established law it seems you already have your answer. In terms of morality, when you're the armed men and women of a government that has committed the supreme international war crime (according to the Nuremberg Tribunal), a war of aggression, and illegally occupies that nation on spurious justification I think those attacking the men inside the mosque could be regarded as the desecrators.
Christiaan