Omniscient 404 Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 A mosque in a village near Bethlehem was set alight early Wednesday morning and anti-Arab graffiti was sprayed on it walls, the Palestinian Maan news agency reported. Worshipers arriving for prayers at the mosque in Jab’a, which lies to the west of Bethlehem, discovered the fire and quickly put it out. The carpeting inside and the walls of the building were damaged but there were no reports of injuries. Eyewitnesses said the offensive graffiti, written in Hebrew, called for revenge attacks against Arabs and Muslims. Local Palestinians believe the arson attack was the work of Jewish settlers. Right-wing extremists have in the past carried out numerous arson and graffiti attacks on Arab property in the West Bank and also Jerusalem under the “price tag†slogan However, the phrase “price tag†did not appear to have been used in the graffiti sprayed on the walls of the targeted mosque. Earlier this month a West Bank settler was sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of a racially motivated arson attack in a West Bank village in 2013. The Lod District Court ruled the incident a “price tag†hate crime and additionally sentenced Binyamin Richter to 12 months probation and ordered him to pay NIS 15,000 ($3,900) as compensation to the owners of the property that was damaged in the attack. Last month, over a dozen members of the extremist group Lehava were arrested in connection with a price tag arson attack on a bilingual Arabic-Hebrew school in November. While attacks targeting Palestinian property and holy sites are roundly condemned by Israeli politicians and religious leaders, security officials have often struggled to bring suspected perpetrators to trial. http://www.timesofisrael.com/mosque-torched-near-bethlehem-in-apparent-hate-crime/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImNana 954 Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 *sets to ignore* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abra 40,910 Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Luckily they managed to put it out. I hope the criminal gets caught. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Souloist 3,634 Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 oops I read "Mosque" as mosquito and was wondering why anyone would waste their time torching a mosquito Anyway, that's messed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bitchcraft 1,377 Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 nvm ~ And that's fucked up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenElizabeth 1,470 Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 I thought the Western media did not report on vandalism on mosques? I mean since the Charlie Hebdo massacre dozens of mosques in Western Europe have been vandalized and the only thing the media reports on is how synagogues and Jewish schools are being heavily safe-guarded...I mean sure, if there's a threat, protection is important...but how many synagogues have been vandalized lately...none...how many mosques?...dozens, apparently...how many mosques have the military outside to protect them...none... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omniscient 404 Posted February 25, 2015 Author Share Posted February 25, 2015 I thought the Western media did not report on vandalism on mosques? I mean since the Charlie Hebdo massacre dozens of mosques in Western Europe have been vandalized and the only thing the media reports on is how synagogues and Jewish schools are being heavily safe-guarded...I mean sure, if there's a threat, protection is important...but how many synagogues have been vandalized lately...none...how many mosques?...dozens, apparently...how many mosques have the military outside to protect them...none...the source is Israeli media not Western Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenElizabeth 1,470 Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 the source is Israeli media not Western After years of Israel desperately trying to be part of the Western world, they can't suddenly become non-Western when it fits their agenda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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