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The mosque in the Bedouin village of Tuba-Zangariyee was set on fire in a suspected "price tag" attack by settlers angry at Israeli policy. The entire interior of the mosque went up in flames, causing heavy damage, and holy books inside the mosque were burned. Graffiti with the words “price tag” was found on the wall of the mosque.
Flying Dutchman wrote:Of course its condemnable. People saying the Galil is in Palestine cannot be taken seriously though and show their ignorance and hatred. What next? Berlin is the capital of France?
Flying Dutchman wrote:Of course its condemnable. People saying the Galil is in Palestine cannot be taken seriously though and show their ignorance and hatred. What next? Berlin is the capital of France?
Flying Dutchman wrote:Of course its condemnable. People saying the Galil is in Palestine cannot be taken seriously though and show their ignorance and hatred. What next? Berlin is the capital of France?
Next time I'll consult a map. )shafique wrote:This thread is about a place of worship being burnt by Jewish extremists in a vindictive attack.
Calling me anti-semitic is a belief, but just another usual tactic.
shafique wrote:This thread is about a place of worship being burnt by Jewish extremists in a vindictive attack.
shafique wrote:Fanbois - you guys need to be consistent. You can claim that borders haven't been agreed yet, and therefore any part of pre-1948 Palestine (as clearly defined in numerous maps and reports) may be under Palestinian Arab control, or agree which borders you recognise as not Israel and therefore Palestine.
Umm al Fahm is a place within Israel, primarily inhabited by Arab Israelis. Why wouldn't Arab Israelis be happy to remain in their homes in Israel?
However, the episode does highlight the difference between fanbois and ordinary people. Ordinary people would condemn the crime first and foremost.
(And note, I did say I deserve the criticism - especially given eh's lie in his title thread was exposed)shafique wrote:FD - I note you didn't quote my mea culpa, but I assumed you read it. Why is that?
shafique wrote:RC - how is equating geography with anti-semitism my tactic?
shafique wrote:Ordinary people would condemn the crime first and foremost.
shafique wrote:RC - how does the location of the mosque change the crime? The perpetrators and their motives are the same, the atrocity is the same.
If anything, the fact that colonists are now attacking mosques within Israel is more worrying, rather than less - isn't it?
Red Chief wrote:Shafique, the "mistake" in the head line totaly changed the content of the supportive article ..
Bora Bora wrote:http://gulfnews.com/news/region/palestinian-territories/outrage-as-colonists-torch-upper-galilee-mosque-
1.884339Ramallah: Colonists torched a mosque in an Arab village in northern Israel early yesterday, triggering protests and clashes with police. Graffiti "price tag" was also spray-painted on the mosque's walls.
The residents of the village in the Upper Galilee were shocked in the wee hours of yesterday to see heavy smoke emerging from the mosque and rushed to the scene.
Several copies of the Quran were also burnt by the colonists.
Hundreds of residents from the village of Tuba Zangaria clashed with Israeli forces which had sealed the area and initiated an investigation into the incident.
The residents of the village protested and hurled stones at the Israeli forces who responded in turn with tear gas and rubber-coated bullets.
The residents were to hold a major demonstration in the afternoon, where many people from the surrounding villages and Palestinians in 1948 areas were to join. Schools and government departments were boycotted.
Israeli daily Haaretz quoted the Northern Police Commander Major-General Rone Atia as saying "the burning of the mosque is very serious in the context of ‘price tag' attacks."
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement instructing the Israeli Shin Bet to quickly locate those responsible for the attack.
"The Prime Minister was furious when he saw the pictures. The pictures of the burnt mosque are horrifying," the statement said.
Opposition leader Tzipi Livni said that such serious incidents required Jews to conduct a self-examination. She stressed that the burning of the mosque was an action that must be condemned.
Dr Mahmoud Al Habash, the Palestinian Minister of Islamic Affairs and Awqaf, condemned the attack, urging Jewish religious figures to distance themselves from such deplorable attacks on religious places.
Dr Al Habash said that nothing has been heard so far from Jewish religious leaders on the repeated attacks of the Israeli colonists on the sacred places.
"It is just time for them to come up with their views on the attacks of the extremist colonists on the mosques and worship places," he said.
He warned against waging a religious war in the region, stressing that during the Palestinian struggle against the Israeli occupation, not even a single Jewish religious site was damaged by Palestinians.
"The last thing the Palestinians want is a religious war in the region, but the Israeli colonists are working hard to initiate it," he said. Yousuf Edais, who heads the Palestinian Higher Judicial Council, said that burning of the mosque and the Quran was a cowardly act of terror that is condemned at all levels.
"We hold the Israeli government, which provides the extremist colonists all the necessary cover and protection, responsible for the incident," he said in an official statement commenting on the attacks.
"Attacking holy places like the mosques fully contradicts all the religions and all the international conventions and agreements," he added.
"There is a serious conspiracy carefully plotted against all Islamic sacred shrines and worship places. Those areas are under a comprehensive religious war by the Israeli colonists," he said, calling on international human rights organisations and mainly the Unesco to follow up with the crimes of the Israeli colonists and help prevent them in the future.
The mosque arson attack in Tuba Zangariya of Upper Galilee will shortly be discussed by the 1948 Areas Higher Follow Up Committee.
Why is Nettie surprised by this? Aren't the colonists doing the very thing that was expected of them? Wasn't that the purpose of settling them there? Israel is going to "look" for those responsible? How hard is to to find them?
shafique wrote:Lying about the guy being an apostate changed the motives for the attack.
event horizon wrote:Writing poetry about Jewish suffering prompted his alienation and eventual attack by the local Muslim community in Missouri.
desertdudeshj wrote:So the matter of greatest concern in this thread is not that some criminals burned down a mosque but all sorts of other what aboutery. Riiight
event horizon wrote:desertdudeshj wrote:So the matter of greatest concern in this thread is not that some criminals burned down a mosque but all sorts of other what aboutery. Riiight
Yes, that's what it means to point out holes of logic in another person's post (of course that argument couldn't have been applied to shafique as RC explained above....).
Dubai's got quite the brain trust.
Red Chief wrote:Shafique, the "mistake" in the head line totaly changed the content of the supportive article ..
It sounds dodgy for me. What's the sence to cross half a country to do that when they are surrounded by mosques in the West Bank?
eh - you tried to cover up your mistake and it took a few pages for you to confirm you got your info (mistakenly) from a loon blog.
shafique wrote:So - care to explain or retract your quote above?