The kidnapping and killing of Rami Ayyad, manager of the Gaza Strip's only Christian bookstore, sent shudders through the Palestinian coastal enclave's tiny Christian community.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071025/wl_mideast_afp/mideastgazachristiansislam_071025163108;_ylt=AtYiCvtp0frXxA1_WsALUeoUewgF
2007-10-25 06:57:33 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Africa & Middle East ➔ Israel
Hi Malka D. I honestly didn't have time to read the whole article but I read more than half of it. According to the article, no one admited killing Rami Ayyad. I don't know whom Rami's brother mean by "more extreme than Hamas". Among Muslims in Israel, Hamas is the most extreme I guess. However, I don't think they would simply go and kill Ayyad just for being an active Christian. Muslims don't have anything against either Christains or Jews. The Issuess between Muslims and Christians or Jews are more political than religious. We do have problems with atheist or those who carry religions other than the Abrahamic religions but we don't have anything against the people of the book as the media always tends to show us. If we are able to seperate politics from religion we will all be able to see this fact but unfortunately the media is a big bias.
Peace
2007-10-25 13:59:06 · answer #1 · answered by Mimi 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Over the years, a considerable numbers of Christians have emigrated, mainly to Latin America, the United States, and Canada. The difference between Christians' and Muslims' rate of emigration may be explained in various ways, but one likely factor is that Christian emigrants find it easier to be accepted in historically Christian Western countries than do Muslim emigrants.
Other reasons for the disparity are hotly contested. Charges of extremist Muslim elements among Palestinian Muslims and feeling threatened or pressured to conform to that agenda have been cited as reasons for emigrating. The Palestinian Authority administration was designed as a democratic government and included Christians on many levels, but it was also marked by corruption, which partially allowed anti-Christian activities to go unpunished. Some emigration since the al-Aqsa Intifada is also blamed on the general state of conflict and hardship in the area, which was especially felt by the Christian community due to its economic involvement in tourism infrastructure.
2007-11-01 08:51:40 · answer #2 · answered by Duke of Tudor 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Anything more extreme than Hamas and we would all be dead. Any person or thing like Hamas that kills its own blood is worse than a leach sucking blood on a dead fish.
2007-10-25 14:36:59 · answer #3 · answered by Janice 4 · 5⤊ 4⤋
hamas is a resistant organization that was created to resist israel. it is the one who will give palestine the freedom
2007-10-25 22:20:05 · answer #4 · answered by OK123 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
they fear the israelis more than they fear hamas
2007-10-25 14:12:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 5⤋