So, it's alright by allah, to use a mosque to shoot at our soldiers and store their weapons? Didn't it loose it's sacred status then?
check. if a "sanctuary' (church, hospital, school, etc.) is used for war-like purposes, it loses the protected status. They're lucky we're only taking ut the minarets and not flattening the entire grid square.
They were engaged in jihad. The highest calling of a muslim.