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Showing posts with label Mosques. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mosques. Show all posts

Friday, May 07, 2010

Jewish Settlers: We’ll Burn You All!


While Jewish settlers were burning the mosque of the village of Yasuf near the city of Nablus in the West Bank and writing on the walls of the village “We’ll burn you all”, which is the phrase German Nazis used to write on Jewish homes in the 1930s, EU member states backed down from a resolution proposed by Sweden to recognize East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state after the interference – as a result of Israeli pressure – of France and Germany, two countries involved in building the Israeli nuclear arsenal.'

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Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Soldiers Level Mosque Near Rafah, Settlers Torch Mosque Near Nablus


Israeli soldiers invaded an area in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, leveled the Al Dahniyya mosque and uprooted farmlands on Tuesday at dawn. Local sources reported that the mosque was leveled to the ground after several armored military vehicles and bulldozers invaded Rafah.

Also on Tuesday at dawn, a group of fundamentalist settlers torched the main mosque of the Al Lubban Al Shariyya village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The settlers attacked the mosque approximately at 3 A.M., rounded up several copies of the Holy Koran in one place and set them ablaze. The fire caused excessive damage to the property of the mosque, including its ceiling, its fans and walls. Its 450 square meters of carpet and eight air conditioners were burnt also.'

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Friday, April 09, 2010

UK Troops Trained by Firing at ‘Replica Mosques’

A political and religious uproar has erupted in Great Britain over news that the British Army trained troops for the Afghanistan mission by having them fire on replica mosques.

A British Muslim group is demanding that the UK military immediately disband seven replica mosques built on an army firing range in northern England.

The flat cut-outs were appear to have been placed as the targets at the Bellerby firing range at the British Army's Catterick Garrison in the north of England.'

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Friday, November 13, 2009

US to Seize Mosques Over 'Ties With Iran'

US federal prosecutors have taken legal action to seize four mosques from a charity foundation, saying they are suspected of having ties with the Tehran government. The prosecutors are also planning to seize the non-profit group's 36-story building on Fifth Avenue in New York.

The seizure of the places of worship is seen as a blow to the very first amendment to the United States Constitution in which freedom of worship is enshrined and guaranteed as an inalienable right of all its citizens.'

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