The main purpose of a just war is to get the other side to stop fighting, by destroying their material, political, physical or psychological ability to continue fighting. If we believed that the Kaaba provided the psychological will for the mad Muslims to carry out jihad, I think a good case could be built for blowing it to smithereens and thus demonstrating that Allah-FUBAR is without the power to defend his sanctuaries, or them.
BTW, I've got two copies of the Koran, different translations, and have tried, sincerely tried to read them. I just can't keep myself on-task. They seem to be gibberish. The Koran doesn't seem to me to be even grammatically coherent, in the sense of individual sentences making sense. And overall, it has no moral, thematic or narrative unity. Strange.
Not every Japanese was a true Shinto believer and not every German was a Nazi...Hitler killed lots of Germans, Mao murdered millions of Chinese, Pol Pot killed millions of Cambodians....yada yada yada.
Yes, and those are the reasons why it's not justifiable to set out to simply indiscriminately kill millions of Japanese, Germans, Chinese, etc. etc.
No matter how brainwashed the populace, and how totalitarian the state, still most people are not intrinsically your enemy. The farmer farms. The mother mothers. Here's the true warrior ethic: Crush the oppressor. Free the slaves.
Your analogy is a poor one.
It seems to me that bombing the Kaaba per se is distinguishable from bombing a million hajiis, and worth talking about
It's worth doing.
They seem to be gibberish.
They are gibberish.
And overall, it has no moral, thematic or narrative unity.
Its moral unity is that mohamet wants you dead.
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