I mean, I've been to the Alamo and have watched the movie (the one with John Wayne, not the recent Billy Bob Thornton turd). I even get the well-built structural details. That said, what the hell is it with people holing up in churches and mosques and then firing on those trying to arrest/kill them?
Latest case in point is in Pakistan, where the military had to raid and ruin the historic Red Mosque What this means for future violence in the country is unclear, except when you talk to some of the survivors, who are way-too-radical for anyone's good.
This also brings me to recall those militants who took over a Christian church in Bethlehem a few years ago and forced the IDF to shoot them out of it. And, of course, the Israelis got blamed just as much as the Pakistani army is.
This is such BS. You hole up in a church, it's called sanctuary. You hole up in a church and shoot at cops or soldiers from it and you *should* be designated a scumbag. I mean, hell, it is the 21st century, even if all the Muslim fundamentalists want to turn the clock back to the 700s (or the 1850s if you are a Protestant fruit loop).
But holier-than-thou types never work on logical planes. Thus the defenders of law and order get the blame. Such is life.
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