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Israel-Palestine
Pig head named Muhammad thrown into mosque
2005-08-27
A pig's head thrown into a mosque with the words Suha Arafat "The Prophet Muhammad" written on it is stirring deep tensions here, with a popular extremist sheik today threatening an Arab revolt and Jewish Temple Mount activists calling on Arabs to be expelled from the country.

The pig's head, which was covered in a black-and-white checkered kaffiyeh, that is an Arab headdress, was thrown last week into the Hassen Bek Mosque of Jaffa, just outside Tel Aviv.

A Tel Aviv couple arrested today admitted to placing the pig in the mosque in hopes, they said, of instigating area Muslims to riot in order to derail the Gaza evacuation plan, which was at its height during the incident. Police found a second pig's head in the suspects' home refrigerator. The couple said they were planning to repeat the attack.

At riot instigation prayer services inside the Hassen Bek mosque today, Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic Movement, a Palestinian Temple Mount terrorist activist group, called on Arabs to revolt against the Israeli government.

"What's happening?"
"The Paleos are revolting!"
"Yes, I know that. But what's happening?

"Jewish terrorists carried out this act against Hassen Bek, but the Israeli establishment bears responsibility for the attack, and will bear responsibility for the fall out as well," said Salah.
So, Salah, will you accept the analogous: Moslem terrorists carried out this act against the World Trade Center, but the Moslem establishment bears responsibility for the attack, and will bear responsibility for the fall out as well.
"The establishment is trying to get rid of al-Aqsa. The Zionists won't rest until there is an ugly attack [against it]. That would be very dangerous."

Salah, who was recently released from prison, ...
For? Terrorism? Incitement to riot? Parking tickets?
... has been accused by Israel of receiving funds from organizations related to terror groups, including Hamas. He said Muslims must defend Al Aqsa from the religions that had a holy site there "evil Jewish designs."

David Haivri, chairman of Revava, a Temple Mount activist group regularly targeted by Salah's public comments, told WND, "Indeed, the Temple Mount should be returned to the control of the Jewish authorities, but it should not be done with any attacks or violence. The Mount is the holiest place for Jews. Muslim control of the site and restrictions on Jewish prayer is not acceptable. Jews should make a pilgrimage to the Temple Mount and show we want it back."

Haivri added, "I think now that [Israeli Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon conducted his first stage in a population exchange with the Gaza withdrawal, he should complete it by sending in the same military forces to get out the Muslims from our country. They have 22 other large Arab countries to live in."
No, they're Kennewickians, they can't live anywhere but Kennewick.
Reacting to Haivri's sentiment, Salah warned, "Anyone who thinks they can get us to leave our land had better prepare a million coffins for Palestinians in this country.
Can do.
We were born in this land, and we will die in this land. From here we will meet Allah."

Salah said his Islamic Movement will set up 24-hour-a-day terrorist guard units to secure Muslim holy sites in Jaffa, Ramleh and Lod, including at the Hassen Bek Mosque. Hassen Bek was the scene of Israeli-Arab violence at the start of the Palestinians' 2000 intifadah.

Anti-Muslim crimes in Israel involving pigs are usually punished severely. In 2001, an activist was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for placing a pig's head on the grave of a militant sheikh in a Muslim cemetery.
Posted by:Jackal

#5  Jackal:

I'll search tomorrow. I remember now because I suggested that it was Sheik Ahmed Yassin's head.
Posted by: The Angry Fliegerabwehrkanonen   2005-08-27 19:50  

#4  FLaK:
The story does say "last week." I did a search of the archives here, but didn't find anything.
Posted by: Jackal   2005-08-27 19:48  

#3  Isn't this an old story? I read of a similar incident about a week ago. Is this the same story or another pig's head in mosque incident?

I thought Arafat had only one head ... oops, there's a funny comeback to that statement ...LOL
Posted by: The Angry Fliegerabwehrkanonen   2005-08-27 16:50  

#2  I can just see the catapulting of pig heads into Al-Aqsa....
Posted by: Frank G   2005-08-27 15:48  

#1  Oh those Zany Zionists!
Posted by: tu3031   2005-08-27 13:37  

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