Another Attack in Gaza – By Muslims Against Christians
The YMCA in Gaza was attacked:
A band of 14 masked gunmen forced its way into YMCA offices in the Gaza Strip and exploded a library there, Israel Radio reported Friday.
Thousands of books were reportedly burnt in the ensuing fire. The YMCA in Gaza also operates a gym and a wedding hall.
The gunmen laid a second explosive device near a computer in the library but it failed to detonate. Two security guards on the scene were not able to block the intruders; they were taken by them from the YMCA and later released in the northern Gaza Strip.
The latest incident is another link in an ongoing chain of attacks against Palestinian Christians which has worsened since Hamas took power of the Gaza Strip last June.
Notice their target – the library. Any knowledge that is not Islamic is “haram” for the Islamists, so much so that they want to destroy it everywhere.
What they fear most, apparently, is the possibility that any other points of view might be more valid than theirs. Which says a lot about their confidence in their own beliefs.
(cross-posted at Elder of Ziyon)
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[...] to be your flock, in Gaza? I wonder if anyone has managed to point the bearded oik to this bit of anti-Christian news out of [...]
From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7246454.stm
“Some have spoken of intimidation, but correspondents say Hamas itself has not shown hostility towards Christians since it threw its Fatah party rivals out of the coastal territory in June.”
Would that be the Hamas Press Office correspondents the BBC rely upon for their unbiased coverage?
Didn’t the Romans burn the library of Egypt, before Rome collapsed?
just asking…..
Jeffrey Nihart