ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON, May 8 (Reuters) - A top Chinese-made Pakistani fighter plane shot down at least two Indian military aircraft on Wednesday, two U.S. officials told Reuters, marking a major milestone for Beijing’s advanced fighter jet.
An Indian Air Force spokesperson said he had no comment when asked about the Reuters report.
I wouldn’t be so quick to portray the strike as solely a bombing of religious institutions. I don’t know which exact Mosque India hit and what its background is, but the situation is a bit more complex than you describe.
Many of the mosques in Pakistan are little more than extremist training camps and arguably have little to do with Islam. This isn’t unique to Pakistan, from living in the US, I got the impression that many Christian “churches” are more like corruption/tax fraud schemes and/or fronts for enabling political corruption.
Got a source for that? Because according to Pakistan 31 civilians, including at least two children, were killed in the strike, and while I’m not one to take belligerents’ words at face value these numbers are hard to fake.
The article you cited states:
This wasn’t a random mosque. It clearly had links to a terrorist organisation. The interviewees claim the place wasn’t tied to terrorism, but I am not convinced.
Note how they never explicitly mention what exactly they teach.
The broad spread of extremism in Pakistan’s mosques and their use by terrorist/Islamist groups is widely documented (just search it).
Note I can’t stand Mohdi and I think he is an embarrassment for India, but that doesn’t mean I am going to ignore the how fucking crazy Pakistani Islamists are (and that all Pakistani governments have supported and nurtured violent Islamist movements as long as they didn’t directly challenge the government).
Read the article again. It was taken over by the government in 2019. The guy who founded JuD was, again as stated in the article, arrested in 2019 and imprisoned for financing terrorism.
So you simply want to believe that the mosque was used by terrorists.