Monday, July 13, 2009

And then the imam's house blew up

This one comes courtesy of Jihad Watch reader "Dumbledoresarmy," who observes: "Here is a Muslim cleric's house, also 'used as a makeshift [Islamic] school', which suddenly goes ka-booom, creating an enormous crater, and flattening neighbouring houses. Now - can anyone imagine a newspaper report in which 'the rabbi's house blew up' or 'the priest's house blew up' or 'the guru's house blew up' because they were being used as an ammo dump?"

In fact, yes. I can imagine such a newspaper report. So can lots of other people. And they imagine such reports all the time. They imagine them in order to reinforce the false moral equivalence they have embraced, and to avoid facing the hard facts of the doctrines of jihad and Islamic supremacism. But that's all they are -- imaginings. This one is real.

At least nine people have been killed and more than 50 injured in a blast at the home of a Muslim cleric in Pakistan.

Dozens of houses were flattened by the blast east of the city of Multan in Punjab province.

The house was often used as a makeshift religious school and some reports said seven children were among the dead.

The blast left a crater 12 metres wide and more than 20 nearby houses collapsed.
Witnesses say the ground shook like an earthquake.

The cause of the explosion is unknown but police found rocket launchers at the scene and suspect there may have been an ammunition dump at the cleric's house....

Go figure, an ammo dump in a muslims house used for religious school. What do you think was being taught in that house? Hmmm, jihad maybe?

The wicked Zionists "destroyed" a Gaza hospital! Just one little detail: it, uh, never existed

Palestinian media manipulation and demonization of Israel update: "Israel ‘Destroyed’ Gaza Hospital that Never Existed," by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu for Israel National News, July 13 (thanks to Sr. Soph):

Another anti-Israeli campaign, this time charging that the IDF destroyed a Christian hospital in Gaza earlier this year, has gone up in smoke following an investigation by the Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA). One question remains: what was supposed to happen with the $1.67 million raised for “rebuilding” the hospital?

Several months ago a fundraising campaign was conducted in Greece, with a star-studded telethon for the hospitals that Israel allegedly “destroyed with their bombs” during the Operation Cast Lead counterterrorist campaign from last December through mid-January.

The JTA revealed that the supposed hospital was not on United Nations and Red Crescent Society lists of damaged structures. Officials of non-government groups (NGOs) in Gaza told the American Jewish news network that only one Christian hospital was used during the campaign and that it did not sustain any damage....