Range, azimuth, and elevation acquired. Raze that mosque.

[Tigger]

An army base (Catterick Garrison) has been criticised by, yep, you guessed it, a Muslim group. The MOD has erected the "look-alike" structures to add realism to their training area.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nort ... 608282.stm

It is said, "Anyone looking at it will think about mosques and Muslims and think about them negatively." And? So fucking what.

[Feck]

Paint them pink and put nipples on them .....

[FBM]

lolwut, like mosques currently enjoy a reputation as being bastions of freedom and intellectual accomplishment? The only way to make them worthwhile is to make them missile targets, IMO.

[Tigger]

Paint them pink and put nipples on them .....

So then there are tits on the outside of the mosque indicating perhaps the presence of the tits inside.

I think this needs reposting here:

I have just applied for planning permission to build a house.
It was going to be 100 feet tall, 400 feet wide with 9 turrets, windows everywhere and a loud outside entertainment system. It would have parking for 200 cars and all this would be painted in snot green with tatty pink trim.

The planning department told me to fuck off, so I sent the application in again, but this time I called it a mosque.

Work starts Monday.

[Horwood Beer-Master]

The chairman of the Bradford Council for Mosques (BMC) said the structures at Catterick should be taken down immediately.

That's the whole idea.

[Tigger]

The chairman of the Bradford Council for Mosques (BMC) said the structures at Catterick should be taken down immediately.

That's the whole idea.

Spiffing!

[GrahamH]

Religious personnel are specifically protected under the Geneva convention and using mock mosques for target practice seems stupidly and pointlessly provocative. Are our troops fighting a religious war?

[Tigger]

Religious personnel are specifically protected under the Geneva convention and using mock mosques for target practice seems stupidly and pointlessly provocative. Are our troops fighting a religious war?

The mosques aren't supposed to be targets, they are there to "mimic" the scenery that might be found as our troops engage the secular enemy.

[GrahamH]

Religious personnel are specifically protected under the Geneva convention and using mock mosques for target practice seems stupidly and pointlessly provocative. Are our troops fighting a religious war?

The mosques aren't supposed to be targets, they are there to "mimic" the scenery that might be found as our troops engage the secular enemy.

Oops, RTFA

[Horwood Beer-Master]

Religious personnel are specifically protected under the Geneva convention and using mock mosques for target practice seems stupidly and pointlessly provocative. Are our troops fighting a religious war?

They're fighting a war in places where there are many mosques.

If they were fighting in Russia, their target range would no doubt include some of those funny 'onion-topped' churches.

[GrahamH]

Religious personnel are specifically protected under the Geneva convention and using mock mosques for target practice seems stupidly and pointlessly provocative. Are our troops fighting a religious war?

They're fighting a war in places where there are many mosques.

If they were fighting in Russia, their target range would no doubt include some of those funny 'onion-topped' churches.

There are 7 'mosques' though. Most buildings in theatre are not mosques. Most buildings in Russia are not churches.

It would be more realistic to have buildings that did not look like mosques. Maybe like these, with just one mosque.

[klr]

Religious personnel are specifically protected under the Geneva convention and using mock mosques for target practice seems stupidly and pointlessly provocative. Are our troops fighting a religious war?

That's quite different from saying that no-one inside a mosque has ever fired on troops ...

[Mysturji]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nort ... 608282.stm

[AshtonBlack]

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=11029

[Mysturji]