Skiluros

The article you cited states:

The compound was founded in 1988 by Hafiz Saeed, the founder of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), a charity organisation widely considered to be a front for the LeT. The compound’s seminary, Jamia Dawa Islami, was also named after the group.

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).

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.

It’s fascinating how Gavrilo Princip put himself into the historical record of humanity. He will be discussed in history books many centuries from now (if we get that far and if the concept of “learning” as we think of it now is even relevant then).

This looks really cool. Thanks for sharing.

The points raised about Pakistan are true though. The government has always been pro-terrorism.

Modi is a piece of shit and is honestly an embarrassment for India. One of India’s strengths was relative tolerance of cultural diversity and a strong commitment to democracy (something you don’t often see with relatively poor countries).

My frame of reference is russia. With all due to respect, US has ways to go before they get to that level.

For me personally, the presence of elections (flawed but arguably functional) and some level of judicial oversight (e.g. US judiciary is no where close to say russia, where they rule as per request from the regime) makes US a proto-fascist state, not fully fascist state.

A relatively minor incident in the bigger scale of things, but it really does give the impression that the US is well on its way to becoming a proto-fascist state.

“In the Bay Area, broadly, is this — it’s almost an entitlement of, ‘I work at these companies, but I don’t have to work very hard and I’m here for myself,’” he said.

I always found it amusing how the term “entitlement” has been butchered by Americans. It’s the only language they know and they keep butchering it with low level polemical theatrics.

How is “I’m here for myself” an entitlement? This is not your family. The goal in any job is to maximize returns, i.e. least amount of work for high financial return (like … wait for it … running a business). Sure there are other factors at play too (career growth, not wanting others to have to work more because of you, being genuinely interested in what you are doing and not seeing it as work, not wanting to treat customers like shit), but that’s an individual thing. A business isn’t automatically entitled to any of that.