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Islamic Tolerance Alert. By Gil Ronen for Israel National News, June 4 (thanks to all who sent this in):
(IsraelNN.com) Attacks on Christian targets and those identified with Western culture have grown more frequent in Gaza in the past two years, and especially since the Hamas takeover in June 2007, experts say. The targets have included churches, Christian and United Nations schools, the American International School, libraries and Internet cafes.The most recent incident occurred this past Saturday, May 31, when gunmen attacked the guards at the Al Manara school, stole a vehicle belonging to the Baptist Holy Book Society which operates the school and threatened the society's director. The Hamas leadership is not acting to stop the attacks and no one has been brought to justice.
Global jihad involvement
An Israeli intelligence report determined that there has been an increase in the number of attacks on Christian figures and institutions, as well as those associated with Western values. The attacks are being perpetrated by elements identified with the global jihad and radical Islam. In the past two years, groups associated with Al-Qaeda took responsibility for attacks upon Christians and Christian institutions with the expressly-stated goal of driving Christians out of Gaza.
The Christian community in Gaza numbers around 3,000. According to the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC), the attacks on Christians have included the following:
* May 18, 2008: a large bomb exploded at the entrance to a fast-food restaurant near Al-Quds Open University in the center of Gaza City. The restaurant was completely destroyed. According t
Groups associated with Al-Qaeda took responsibility for attacks with the expressly-stated goal of driving Christians out of Gaza.
o the owner, it was the second time his establishment had been attacked.
* May 16, 2008: a bomb exploded in the Rahabat al-Wardia school run by nuns in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City. Hamas condemned the incident and a call was made to the police to bring the criminals to justice. The previous year, when Hamas took over the Gaza Strip, the school was subjected to thefts and an arson attack.
* April 3, 2008: a monument in the Gaza Strip's foreign nationals' cemetery was blown up. Hamas promised to investigate.
* February 15, 2008: Three gunmen from the “Army of Islam in the Land of Ribat,” a network headed by Mumtaz Dughmush, broke into the YMCA library in Gaza City and set off a bomb which caused extensive damage. Hamas police condemned the event, calling it “a criminal act” and promising to investigate. The Hamas security forces detained a number of Army of Islam operatives but released them shortly thereafter, following a threat to use force to free them. After the event, senior Hamas figures met with senior Christian figures to express solidarity.
* January 10, 2008: a group called "Army of the Believers -- the Al-Qaeda Organization in Palestine,” attacked the International School in Beit Lahiya twice, burning vehicles and stealing equipment. According to a statement issued two days later, the school was accused of spreading polytheism and hatred for Islam. The attacks were timed to coincide with U.S. President George W. Bush's visit to Israel.
* December 31, 2007: the “Friends of the Sunnah Bayt al-Maqdis” issued a manifesto on the Pal-Today Website, affiliated with Islamic Jihad, threatening to attack anyone who participated in New Year's Eve celebrations.
* October 6, 2007, elements linked to Hamas abducted Rami Khadr Ayad from his home and shot him to death; he was a Christian who worked for the Holy Bible Society. The Hamas administration condemned the murder and opened an investigation whose results are so far unknown.
* June 19, 2007: during the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip Hamas gunmen attacked and vandalized a monastery and church.
* April 21, 2007: elements linked to the global jihad attacked the American International School in Gaza City.
* April 15, 2007: a group calling itself “The Swords of Truth in the Land of Ribat” set off bombs in two Internet cafes and a store selling Christian books, causing damage.
Posted by Robert at June 4, 2008 9:06 AM
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Sounds like there might be some sort of Muslim led anti-christian agenda here.
Quick world media, don't report it.
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at June 4, 2008 9:15 AM
The Interpol will arrest the leaders of Hamas for their lack of respect of Christians.
What?? Interpol intervening on behalf of a religious group only works in Jordan... Sorry, silly me.
Posted by: nacazo at June 4, 2008 11:52 AM
Here is a naive remark for your amusement: I never understand why I don't hear things like this in mainstream news. If I didn't read jihadwatch I would never hear about them. Isn't that strange? This story is important, enlightening, up-to-the-minute, consequential...and virtually invisible.
I wonder how far the situation described would have to go before it would be considered newsworthy? Perhaps a little home grown Gaza Strip jihad, which of course mustn't be called that, would attract some attention - enough to generate some copy, the lines of which we could then read between to get past the editorialization that the Christians "brought it on themselves" and try to discern the facts.
Posted by: Novalis at June 4, 2008 2:40 PM
If there are any websites and blogs that document the jihad being waged against Christians in Gaza on a daily basis, please post links to them on Jihad Watch.
at June 4, 2008 2:53 PM
Christian:
Posted by: BlackJackP at June 4, 2008 3:15 PM
Perhaps the same type of "clean up campaign" will begin in the States:
Nation of Islam to police Miami?
City pays mosque-based Muslim group $150,000 to patrol, promote civility
Posted: June 03, 2008
10:21 pm Eastern© 2008 WorldNetDaily
Rasul Muhammad
The City of Miami hired Muslims with ties to the Nation of Islam to patrol streets and keep the peace.
The city will pay $150,000 to Peacemakers, a civilian group run by Progressive Land Development International, as part of a $1 million crime-fighting initiative, Fox News reports. However, a great deal of controversy has been caused by the organization's mailing address – it also belongs to the Miami's Nation of Islam.
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=66159
As the UK goes, so do the States it seems....
at June 4, 2008 7:28 PM
It sounds like they have Michelle Obama running things over there...
Posted by: pythagoras at June 4, 2008 9:05 PM
Amazeing a well known racist group like farrakhans group laraza haveing offices in out congress makeing amnesty bills another racist group and im wondering have we not had enough hamas training our police for sensitivity i just no longer think we can allow there people to run our country any more .
Posted by: spcbat at June 5, 2008 12:58 AM
memo to spcbat:
Moonbats like Farrakhan and his noxious ("extremist") ilk will in all probability continue to gain acess to the Executive Branch of the United States government until we stop them through a Constitutional Amendment. That is probably the ONLY way they can be stopped. It is urgent too, that we stop them NOW!!!!
As Paul Sperry has documented so well in "Infiltration" Islamic doctrine continues to (insidiously) infiltrate the ranks of the United states' government and institutions and media. Yielding disastrous results including Barack Obama's successful bid for the Democratic nomination for US presidency.
ANYONE WHO has voluntarily aligned themselves for any reason at any time with any terrorist organization (including Hizbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood or the PLO), with organization that operates outside the law, with any organization that advocates or works towards the overthrow of the US government, or with any organization that advocates violence, anti-Americanism, or anti-Semitism (which includes the KKK or the black Panthers) MUST BE BARRED FROM RUNNING FOR OR HOLDING AN OFFICEEE IN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE US GOVERNMENT AND THEY MUST BE BLOCKED THROUGH A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT that is enforced rigorously.
Posted by: pythagoras at June 5, 2008 2:50 PM
I find it amazing there are any Christians left in Gaza. How pathetic are Muslims, who often use these "Palestinian" Christian Arabs are dubious proof their anti-Israel movement is not a jihad. Yet it so obviously is. Sometimes they let it slip, when they can't keep it in any longer and shout "First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people."
Yes, to be a knowledgeable Muslim is to be a participant in murder, a murderer.
http://www.bravenewsworld.blogspot.com
at June 5, 2008 6:11 PM
Novalis
"Here is a naive remark for your amusement: I never understand why I don't hear things like this in mainstream news. If I didn't read jihadwatch I would never hear about them. Isn't that strange? This story is important, enlightening, up-to-the-minute, consequential...and virtually invisible."
Possibly because the mainstream media needs to actually verify its sources to keep credibility. Robert Spencer doesnt-he only needs to feed his little minions morsels of anti-Muslim hate regardless of accuracy.
MaxPublicus
"I find it amazing there are any Christians left in Gaza. How pathetic are Muslims, who often use these "Palestinian" Christian Arabs are dubious proof their anti-Israel movement is not a jihad. "
The Palestinian struggle is a national one- Christian Palestinians have been involved in it from the outset- Edward Said, Hanan Ashwari George Habash etc
"Yet it so obviously is. Sometimes they let it slip, when they can't keep it in any longer and shout "First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people." "
truly idiotic. I have never heard that phrase .
Christians and Jews lived under Islam for 1400 years -if as you suggest the Muslims goal was to extreminate them (as Christians did to the Jews) how would there be any let alone millions left? Muslims could have easily killed them off years ago as Christians have non-christians
at June 7, 2008 10:18 AM
istanbulnotconstantinople, you say:
"Christians and Jews lived under Islam for 1400 years", and you claim that since there were still some left, here and there, after 1400 years, it means Muslims didn't really mean, or try, to exterminate them. Nope. In lots of places Muslims DID mean, and try, and succeed, in wiping them out. Elsewhere, since dhimmis could be squeezed for money, some Muslims left them alive to use as a cash cow, or to do dirty jobs Muslims didn't like (such as cleaning latrines - a job reserved for dhimmi Jews, in Yemen).
(By the way, Muslim spinmasters like to make the same sort of argument about Hindus - 'since the Muslims hadn't actually wiped out all the Hindus by 1800, it means they mustn't have meant, or tried, to wipe them out' ...GARBAGE).
The records unearthed by Bat Yeor, Andrew Bostom, S Goitein, Fregosi, Trifkovic, and, in India, Sita Ram Goel and K S Lal, to name only a few, say you are a liar.
The souls of one million Armenian Christians cold-bloodedly and with mind-bending refinements of cruelty mass-murdered by Turkish Muslims say that you are a liar.
The souls of the estimated two hundred and seventy million non-Muslims of all descriptions - Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, Hindus, Buddhists, and African animists - who were mass-murdered by Muslim jihadis in the name of Islam, in the course of jihad warfare, together the souls of the millions who were enslaved, raped (women) or castrated (men), and forcibly removed from their families forever, and those driven from their homelands into exile, or scooped up and deported hither and thither, like pawns on a chessboard, cry out against you and say that you are a liar.
The souls of nine thousand Yemeni Jews who in the 17th century were driven by Msulims from their homes, into the barren desert, and died there, leaving only one thousand people alive behind them, out of a community originally numbering ten thousand, cry out against you and say that you are a damnable liar.
Dhimmis did not 'live'. They survived, barely, living under a Sword of Damocles that might at any moment fall upon them and destroy their lives and their communities. They were forced, by Muslims, (and in many places, such as Pakistan, and Iraq, and Egypt, non-Muslims are still so forced) to endure a state of permanent humiliation, degradation, and physical insecurity.
Is treating people like THAT anything to be proud of?
For a scathing denunciation of the classic Muslim attitude toward Infidels, and dhimmis, and some of the practices it produced, I cannot better the words of Mr Hugh Fitzgerald at this very website (I QUOTE):
" I find appalling the hatred expressed throughout the Qur’an, the hadith, and the sira for Infidels -- all Infidels.
"I find nauseating the imposition of the jizya on Infidels, the requirement that they wear identifying marks on their clothes and dwellings, that they not be able to build or repair houses of worship without the permission of Muslim authorities, that they must ride donkeys sidesaddle and dismount in the presence of Muslims, that they have no legal recourse against Muslims for they are not equal at law -- and a hundred other things, designed to insure their permanent, as the canonical texts say, “humiliation.”
"I find the mass murder of 60-70 million Hindus, over 250 years of Mughal rule, and the destruction of tens of thousands of artifacts and Hindu (and Buddhist) temples, some of the Hindu ones listed in works by Sita Ram Goel, appalling.
" I find the 1300-year history of the persecution of the Zoroastrians, some of it continuing to this day, according the great scholar of Zoroastrianism, Mary Boyce, which has led to their reduction to a mere 150,000, something to deplore. There are piquant details in her works, including the deliberate torture and killing of dogs (which are revered by Zoroastrians), even by small Muslim children who are taught to so behave."
The more I read about all the horrible ways in which Muslims, all over the Islamosphere, for 1400 years, treated non-Muslims unlucky enough to be living under their boot, the angrier I get.
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at June 8, 2008 2:58 AM
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