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Gaza’s Christians under the Islamic gun


By Stan Goodenough
June 19, 2007

There are not very many of them, but Gaza’s Christians are already being singled out for special treatment in the newly-created “Hamastan” in Gaza.

The attacks began before Hamas even completed its takeover of the Strip last week, targeting a Roman Catholic school and church.

Reports of the atrocities only surfaced later because of the chaos in Gaza, according to a witness.

Masked “brave” warriors of Allah wielding guns ransacked and set fire to the Rosary Sisters School and church, according to Father Manual Musalam, as reported in The Jerusalem Post Monday.

“The masked gunmen used rocket-propelled grenades to storm the main entrances of the school and church,” he was quoted as saying.

“Then they destroyed almost everything inside, including the Cross, the Holy Book, computers and other equipment.”

A World Net Daily report Tuesday quoted an Islamic leader in Gaza as saying that Christians can only continue living safely in the Strip if they accept Islamic law, including a ban on alcohol and on women roaming publicly without proper head coverings.

Sheikh Abu Saqer warned that any Christians engaging in missionary activity will be “dealt with harshly.”

Muslim Arabs have a long history of desecrating Jewish and Christian sites and of persecuting adherents of both biblical faiths.

Despite their intolerance and the fact that Muslims are behind the vast majority of wars and terrorism on the planet, leaders of Judeo-Christian and post-Christian countries insist on calling Islam a “religion of peace.”

Recent months have seen a number of Christian institutions in the PA-controlled areas come under attack, among them a Christian bookstore belonging to The Bible Society in the Gaza Strip.

In a statement released on June 14 Open Doors, which describes itself as “one of the few Christian ministries still committed to working inside Gaza” detailed how Muslims “are creating a situation that verges on anarchy.

“They are targeting everything that is against their view of Islam. The group ‘The Sword of Islam’ has sent death threat letters to female broadcasters on Palestine [sic] television.”

The ministry quoted the Muslims as threatening to “cut throats, and from vein to vein, if needed, to protect the spirit and morals of this nation.”

It went on to describe “the firm grip of fear created by Muslim militants over the society.

Several sources “say that especially believers from a Muslim background are afraid to be discovered and killed… Not many have the courage to have contact with other Christians.

“Fear is trying to creep in everywhere.”

Only about 2000 of Gaza’s 1.4 million “Palestinians” are Christian.

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