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If this is a nationalist struggle, and Palestinian Christians are just as Palestinian as Palestinian Muslims, and are united with them in their nationalist struggle against the fiendish Zionists, then why do things like this happen?
From the Associated Press, May 16 (thanks to Writer Mom):
Unknown assailants detonated a bomb outside a Christian school in Gaza City before dawn Friday, causing no injuries.The explosion was heard in surrounding neighborhoods at around 4 a.m. Damage was visible at the entrance to the Zahwa Rosary School, which is run by Catholic nuns but caters mainly to Muslim students.
Two nuns were in their convent adjacent to the school when the bomb went off, a school official said, and were shaken but unharmed. The official declined to be named, saying she was frightened by the incident and concerned for her safety.
The incident appeared to be the work of a poorly trained individual or group, she said - police told school officials that the bomb had been set incorrectly, and it caused little damage.
The bombing was the latest in a string of attacks on Christian institutions in the overwhelmingly Muslim territory. In the most serious attack, a local Christian activist was murdered in October. His killers have not been found....
Police officials from Hamas said they were looking into the incident. But the school official said the police's inability to find perpetrators of previous attacks was cause for concern.
"We don't feel safe. There's no security here," she said.
But the dhimmis know what they're supposed to say:
Father Manuel Musallem, the leader of Gaza's Catholics, played down Friday's attack. "This is the work of a dark individual," Musallem said. "We have excellent relations with Muslims. They enter our houses and we enter theirs. There's no campaign of Muslims against Christians here," he said....
Of course not! What's a few bombings among friends?
Posted by Robert at May 16, 2008 10:59 AM
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So if there's no campaign of Muslims against Christians and incidents like this are the work of "individuals" then why in the West is any arrest of an "individual" Muslim who commits such acts seen as a campaign against all Muslims?
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at May 16, 2008 11:28 AM
police told school officials that the bomb had been set incorrectly
Father Manuel Musallem, the leader of Gaza's Catholics, played down Friday's attack. ". . .There's no campaign of Muslims against Christians here," he said....
Um . . .unless the jihadists (got that Condi?) set the bombs "correctly". but that's just a technicality, right Father?
at May 16, 2008 11:31 AM
Yeah, all of this is just a few dark individuals.
Bush and Condi will get them all straight and Narnia will be safe again.
Pipe dreams depend on whats in the pipe!
Posted by: guide inside at May 16, 2008 12:08 PM
Yeah, all of this is just a few dark individuals.
Bush and Condi will get them all straight and Narnia will be safe again.
Pipe dreams depend on whats in the pipe!
Posted by: guide inside at May 16, 2008 12:08 PM
Hanan Ashrawi, Naim Ateek, Michel Sabbagh will be silent about this. These islamochristians long ago threw in their lot with the PLO, and the "Palestinians." A mixture of motives: they thought they might preserve, somehow, a place for Christians. The same calculation was made by Michel Aflaq, when he came up with the fascistic "Ba'athism" as a way to emphasize a shared "Arabness" that would allow a role, a political space, for Christian Arabs such as himself. The Chaldeans and Assyrians of Iraq have seen, with the Return of Islam (it never really went away, but for his own reasons, Saddam Hussein held in check the most virulent Muslims, who in Iraq happen to be the Shi'a, the ones whom Christian Iraqis now in the U.S., such as Donny George, call "the turbans").
The Christian Arabs, below the ashrawi-ateek level, are desperate to leave the "Palestinian Authority" lands and to live in Jerusalem, even to receive Israeli citizenship. And this despite the fact that they have for years pushed the anti-Israel line themselves, because they kept thinking they could somehow keep the Muslim wolves from their door, if only they were plus rolyalistes que le roi. It hasn't worked out. Their fate is tied, in the Middle East, to that of the Jewish state, and the sooner they realize that, and the more open they are about expressing it, especially in the Western world, the better.
For one far-seeing example, see what the Bishop of Beirut, Moubarac, wrote in 1947. It's in one of the appendices to Bat Ye'or's "Islam and Dhimmitude."
Posted by: Hugh at May 16, 2008 12:12 PM
Islamic-centric analysis...
Posted by: greatcometof1577 at May 16, 2008 12:23 PM
If this is a nationalist struggle, and Palestinian Christians are just as Palestinian as Palestinian Muslims, and are united with them in their nationalist struggle against the fiendish Zionists, then why do things like this happen?
Is it possible that Palestinian muslims are attacking Palestinian Christians for the same reason that Palestinian muslims keep attacking Palestinian muslims? Because that's what muslims do, if they can't find an enemy to kill, they attack each other.
So if, or when, all of the Christians are gone from "the territories", they'll go back to killing each other.
That's just what they do.
Posted by: walterc at May 16, 2008 12:59 PM
And if Christians bombed a Muslim school, the media would be all over it. But hey, we Christians don't intentionally murder Muslim children, we just send hundreds of millions of dollars to Islamic countries which can't effectively run their societies so they need our money to feed their kids. Holy irony!
Posted by: James Martel at May 16, 2008 2:17 PM
Its been happaning for years muslims there threatening and killing the christians this is a small news story about whats been happening and ignored for years heck the muslims werent majority there in middle east in 1900 they became majority just this way.
Posted by: spcbat at May 16, 2008 3:44 PM
And if Christians bombed a Muslim school, the media would be all over it.
by James Martel
Of course, because it's atypical behavior for Christians.
Muslims killing anyone they don't like? It happens every day and our readers get tired of seeing it. We can't keep reprinting or re-airing the same story over and over again. So what else is new?
Posted by: PMK at May 16, 2008 4:02 PM
father manuel is just another apologist... he might not be a christian afterall.
Posted by: callmeinfidel at May 16, 2008 6:46 PM
Azmi Bishara (Arabic: عزمي بشارة),is a Palestinian Christian with an Israeli citizenship and a member of the Israeli Knesset,(now in self inflicted exile!..), Would have said on your article, that as a "devoted servant" of the Israeli 'Mossad', you are trying your best to "Lebanonise" the situation in Gaza! Hanan Daoud Khalil Ashrawi, has disappeared completely from my T.V. screen!...
This is the "proper" conduct of an "proper" Dhimmi!...
Thank you for existing Robert! And it is a great pleasure to read the stuff you write!
Posted by: AbuAmnon at May 16, 2008 8:57 PM
"The incident appeared to be the work of a poorly trained individual or group, she said - police told school officials that the bomb had been set incorrectly, and it caused little damage"
What?..it exploded at 4 AM, it was supposed to go off at 9AM when the school was full of children?what do they mean the bomb had been set incorrectly? And how do they know it was set incorrectly?.
I suppose the Gaza police would know these things.
Posted by: pulsar182 at May 17, 2008 7:24 AM
Gotta get the next bomb "set correct", right Hamas?
Can't have any un-subjugated Christian dogs polluting the sacred soil of Islam.
Posted by: profitsbeard at May 18, 2008 3:05 AM
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