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"Palestinian security officials have said they suspect a secret vice squad of Muslim militants." A secret vice squad, attacking Internet cafes and...Christian bookstores, in the name of Islamic morality. As far as the attackers are concerned, both represent vice in equally pernicious ways. And then some American Christian conservatives say we ought to ally with Muslims on the basis of morality; they don't realize that all too many Muslims regard Christian beliefs as just as much a manifestation of immorality, if not more so, than Internet porn.
From The Associated Press, with thanks to the American Israeli Patriot:
Three explosions rocked Gaza City early Sunday, damaging two Internet cafes and a Christian bookstore.No one was hurt and no group claimed responsibility for the blasts, which took place around 3 a.m. local time, Palestinian security officials said.
But heavy external damage was visible at the three stores. At the bookstore, which is funded by American Protestants and known as the Bible Society, a number of books were also burned in the explosion.
Several similar attacks on Internet cafes and music stores in recent months have been claimed by a little-known extremist Islamic organization calling itself the Swords of Truth....
In recent months, about three dozen Internet cafes and shops selling pop music have been attacked in the Gaza Strip, with assailants detonating small bombs outside businesses at night, causing damage but no injuries. Palestinian security officials have said they suspect a secret vice squad of Muslim militants.
Posted by Robert at April 15, 2007 6:09 AM
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When ever l hear some people say that Israel is a racist country, l point out the facts about the pali in the Gaza strip, and of course others, about how Christian Arabs are being forced out, women are forced to wear the head covering, etc. seems islamist do not want others to access to information. only their leaders can have internet.
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at April 15, 2007 7:40 AM
I owned a Christian bookstore here in the U.S. in the late 70's and early 80's. No one burned it down.
Thank God no one from the religion of hate--oops-- I mean the religion of peace lived close by!!
Posted by: guide inside at April 15, 2007 8:55 AM
Bombing Internet Cafes??? You would think that with all those terrorist postings of propaganda on YouTube they wouldn't want to shut down Internet access. What a bunch of hypocrites!
Cheers,
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com
Posted by: Doctor Bulldog at April 15, 2007 10:12 AM
Doctor Bulldog
don't muslims know that vampires are fictional?
Posted by: leonthepigfarmer at April 15, 2007 12:03 PM
These Muslims hate books, any ideas and people being educated by all they are blowing up.
They are neophobic in anything new.
Posted by: Lame Cherry at April 15, 2007 12:24 PM
I love the smell of Tolerance in the morning... it smells like... Submission.
The terror... begun in the Koran... marches on.
And on...
and on....
*~@):~{>
Posted by: profitsbeard at April 15, 2007 12:24 PM
I do not want to sound rude or uncaring as everyone should be able to put a book store anywhere, BUT,
this is like putting a pig butcher shop next to a mosque. Why would someone NOT expect to be put out of this business in Gaza.
Posted by: vulcan at April 15, 2007 12:43 PM
Vulcan: I understand your comment, "Why would someone not expect to be put out of this business in Gaza." Point taken. I could give many reasons, but I offer only several points. One: It is claimed over and over that Islam is a religion of peace..you know the rest. So, these 'small' number of Muslims who go against the basic tenet, and bomb and kill, should be easily identified and brought to Palestinian justice...but, of course, they never will be. Two: Christianity existed in the ME, including Gaza, long before Islam arrived. They have a right to have presence in that area (churches, schools, bookstores, etc) and everywhere else in the ME. Three: With the billions of dollars which have poured into the area and are again flowing, it seems a small but extremely important and legitimate request for the UN, European and American donors to ask that freedom of religion is allowed and protected in Gaza.
Posted by: maryrose at April 15, 2007 1:14 PM
Oh Lord, where to start.
1. "In the name of Islamic morality."--Where does this come from? There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that this had anything to do with the attack. Christianity is NEVER discussed as against Islamic morals (see 3). Even when Robert attacks Islamic texts for being "against Christianity," he can't come up with anything deeper than those who have lost their way. (Even Jews are described as those who have incurred God's wrath---a description, not an invitation to kill). "Scholar" Robert is trying to crystal-ball and endless Islamic world experience (like 0, ya3ni sifr fil mia) into explaining something he knows absolutely nothing about.
2. "As far as the attackers are concerned..."---is Target (or WalMart or Spinney's[you don't know about that one]) having a sale on mind reading machines?
3. "...that all too many Muslims regard Christian beliefs as just as much a manifestation of immorality..."---now wait. I have read Islamic sources, in both their original languages and in translation and I have NEVER, NEVER heard Christianity (one of the People of the Book) and internet pornography discussed on even remotely the same level, much less the same text. Even those Islamic texts that demean and bash Christianity and Christians (which are unfounded, and by the way totally against Islam)--NEVER discuss Christian beliefs in this manner. This shows a COMPLETE ignorance of the Islamic religious and legal systems, whether throughout history or in the modern day. (Single statements from individuals don't count fellow commentors)
Conclusion (for those of you who don't like to read---quite a few of you): Robert is using his classic semantic tricks---the skill of the mystical commas "..., or perhaps more so,..."--- the mind reading skills that even the best coffee-ground reader[you don't know about those either] would be envious of, to spin a news story about a horrendous[that's right, I said horrendous, and I would have said it if it had happened in Israel] attack into a reason to hate ALL Muslims around the world and attack 1.5 Billion people through the use of hateful and generalizing semantics (not to mention COMPLETE lack of evidence connecting his claims, etc.)
Just doing some thinking.
(PS. Sorry for the lengthy posts---Hugh style, I know, but mine actually say something in them)
at April 15, 2007 2:31 PM
American,
Now let's not assume we aren't hip to coffee- grind readers,lol! How utterly pretentious! As for Hugh's posts, who really cares to defend them. The gentleman is pushing a century in age and was watching this drama unfold when you and I were stardust. Robert Spencer has in no way implied that this is a reason to dispise Muslims worldwide,it is the motivating cultural and religious factors which shape Islamic views on other faiths, and knowledge in general, which are exposed for critique here. Of course, I hear those nasty Mossad may be lurking around the corner again,(they love infiltrate the strip on a weekend and blow up strategic targets like coffee shops,right,opps don't look now.)
at April 15, 2007 5:19 PM
The Bible Society bookstore has been attacked before. Its staff are Palestinian Arab Christians, not foreigners, and have repeatedly received violent death threats - from Muslims.
My guess is that they are being punished for the 'crime' of breaching the dhimmi rules of total submission, total silence, and No Evangelism of Muslims. Perhaps Robert or someone else could post a sample of those rules here so we can see how these bold bad Christians, by merely maintaining a public presence with texts of the Bible in Arabic on offer to intelligent adults, are perceived as offending. Because Muslims must never, never be allowed to engage with an alternative belief system.... Oh, temptation! (Hence: no church bells, no blowing of the rams' horn, no reading aloud of the Torah or the Gospels, Christians and Jews must not even pray too loudly lest they 'disturb' their Muslim neighbours...[And internet cafes too, even though the internet is used by the jihad, still, an internet surfer may encounter alternative ideas out there, not necessarily alternative religious teachings, just...ideas, not all of them Islam. And as for the music stores - we all know what the Ayatollah Khomeini said about music...ALL music.]
Frankly, if there can be Muslim bookshops in non-Muslim countries selling hate-literature, the Bible Society should be able to have a bookshop in Gaza selling books about divine Love and how to love one's neighbours and even how to love one's enemies. Have any Muslim hate-speech bookstores in Australia or America been blown up lately? Nope. But of course, the principle of reciprocity is alien to Muslim culture. They can attack a small, modest Christian bookshop for merely selling the Gospels and Torah in Arabic translation; but WE are supposed to permit Muslim bookshops and clerics preaching hate.
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at April 15, 2007 5:22 PM
Read the Koran.
Spread the dread.
Judaism and Christianity threaten to give you either great violinists and polio vaccines or universal education and solar system exploration.
Islam is the problem.
To its own believers.
And to all infidels who chose another belief.
As long as Muslims don't rein in their homicidal fanatics, the infidels will have to do it for these cowards within Islam.
Who prefer to bow to the memory of a pedophile warlord instead of thinking for themselves- and opposing the cruel and irrational exponents of this bizarre creed.
Posted by: profitsbeard at April 15, 2007 6:39 PM
Vulcan, you said, "this is like putting a pig butcher shop next to a mosque. Why would someone NOT expect to be put out of this business in Gaza."
You do not know of what you speak....and you are being a classic apologist.
So according to you it is the Christians "fault" for even being there! Wake up!
I know the people who run the bookstore. They are dear friends. They are Palestinian. They are Christian. They are lifelong residents. The church and bookstore have existed for years.
But I guess according to you they don't have the right to live. How sad. How dhimmi-like!
Posted by: Notadhimmieyet at April 16, 2007 8:48 AM
The Muslims were terrified that Muslims were reading JW......
Posted by: exsgtbrown at April 16, 2007 10:57 AM
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