“Christians have transformed this site into a brothel,” one of the attackers shouts in this video
This year, Christmas among Palestinians appears to have been a source of unusual animosity towards Christians. The aftereffect of Hamas’s memo about Christians in Gaza and the Christmas celebration was a social media anti-Christmas campaign that culminated with the burning of Christmas trees by Muslims in the city of Sakhnin in northern Israel.
Now this anti-Christian campaign has come to the West Bank, spearheaded by Muslims from East Jerusalem, against the Nabi Musa historic structure, a site which is situated seven miles south of Jericho and twelve miles east of Jerusalem in the Judean wilderness.
A dance party was held in one of the halls of the site, hosted by a renowned Palestinian DJ named Sama Abdul Hadi. Muslims from Jerusalem responded to their discovery of the party by organizing a convoy, drove to the site, and shut it down.
They began by launching an online campaign called “Hey guys, let us drive all to the shrine of the Prophet Moses, the Christians have turned it into a place for prostitution, drugs, and drunkenness.” They thought it was a Christmas celebration.
This Palestinian activist, in this Facebook video, hailed the Islamic movements and Fatah for taking action against the party, but also made it clear that the participants were “Muslims from the West Bank.” At the beginning of the video, he emphasized that they “were not Christians, but rather Muslims.”
In addition, he suggested that “families of the attendees take action against their children who have deviated from Islamic teachings and the national duty towards fighting against the Zionist occupiers.” (As part of the Palestinian discourse, it is always essential to blame Israel in the event that Christians demonstrate their innocence, as in this case.)
The organizers insisted that they had the required permit to hold such a party. Furthermore, the site, which belongs to the Islamic endowments, had been leased to a private Palestinian company to promote tourism. The main goal was to promote the archaeological sites of Palestine, and the ceremony was held outside the mosque with authorization from the [Palestinian] Ministry of Tourism.
This YouTube video shows how the DJ’s equipment was smashed, and the bedroom furniture was thrown into the main yard of the site.
The site is also used as a guesthouse with dozens of rooms, besides a mosque to commemorate Moses and his alleged burial site, as claimed by some Muslims. According to the Book of Deuteronomy, Moses descended Mount Nebo (in Jordan) to see the Land of Canaan, which God had told him he would not enter, before dying in Moab.
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh tried to defuse the anger among Palestinians by establishing a committee to investigate what really took place in the site, but asked people to have patience until the results of the investigation are made public. DJ Sama Abdul Hadi, one of the few female DJs among the Palestinians, was arrested on Saturday night.
A Christian activist who goes by the pseudonym “Richard Lion” expressed how Palestinian Christians felt about this incident. “They are sad and angry because Muslims accused Christians. These people were supposedly all Muslims (open-minded Muslims, non-religious) and were being hosted by a famous institution (Al Ard).”
Christian Palestinians, who have been facing serious challenges over being caught between the burgeoning Islamic movements and the inept Palestinian Authority, find themselves embroiled yet again in a dispute, despite the fact that the truth of the matter is totally in their favor.
Palestinian Christian activists have contacted this writer to draw attention to the story and to voice their anger because they feel intimidated by the Palestinian Authority and other terrorist groups. “If this [anti-Christian campaign] persists, the Holy Land will be empty of Christians in the near future,” Richard Lion added.
Samir A. Zedan is a former Senior Counter-Terrorism Analyst at the US Department of State, and a former Development Outreach and Communication Specialist at USAID/Iraq. He has contributed to hundreds of articles published in major media outlets with assignments in the Palestinian areas, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, and Europe.
somehistory says
Psychopaths always blame others for what they have done.
And moslims always blame their two favorite enemies…Christians and Jews…for whatever goes awry. Or whatever they believe has gone awry.
Self inspection is never done by moslims. Their insides could stand the scrutiny, but they know what is there…evil intent…and they like it that way. It’s the reason they arise in the morning and it’s what they think about all day and night.
How to mistreat, abuse and accuse those they hate.
The Bible makes clear that Jehovah God disposed of the body of Moses so he would not be made an object of worship. Only Jehovah knows where Moses’s remains are to this day. (Deut. 34)
James Lincoln says
somehistory says,
“It’s the reason they arise in the morning and it’s what they think about all day and night. How to mistreat, abuse and accuse those they hate.”
After cup of coffee, a cheese Danish, sliced fruit, eggs and home fries, the *very last* thing that I think of is how to “mistreat, abuse, and accuse” other people.
And if I somehow, strangely, think of it, I immediately dismiss it…
tim gallagher says
That’s Islam isn’t it, James. When i read parts of the Koran, my main impression was of the obsessive hatred towards non-believers. Islam just has a nasty and hate-filled attitude at its core. Christianity tells us to try to love other people and treat them well. As a Christian, I, at least, try to behave well towards people and to dislike people less. Buddhism seems to teach its adherents to be tolerant towards others, but islam seems to me to very clearly encourage the worst in people and encourages a very bad attitude towards any non-Muslims. I agree with what you say, somehistory, self inspection doesn’t seem to exist for Muslims. I suppose that, since they are told that they are the “best of people” (talk about being deluded), they think they don’t need to go in for self inspection.
somehistory says
When I was in my teens, with no car, I had to walk everywhere and sometimes, through less-than-safe areas of town. I would try to prepare my mind for what I would do if someone jumped out from an alley or bush to attack me.
It was difficult to think of ways I could protect myself because I knew I would probably have to hurt the attacker to avoid being hurt.
One thing I learned to do was to make the fire station a part of the route of wherever I had to go because I could get help from the guys there if the need arose.
I just am so glad not to be moslim. It wouldn’t suit at all.
Greg Beetham says
That’s the impression I have as well, besides the self delusion (the misplaced delusions of grandeur) the cult of Satan encourages, and even promotes lying and deceit as well as hate for anyone who isn’t a Muslim and the worst part of it is they don’t retain even a basic moral compass.
somehistory says
The very first thing I think of when my brain is fully awake, is to say a prayer of thanks to my God for all that He has given me that day.
When one is attempting to serve the God that is Love, it’s difficult to even imagine thinking…even a last thought…of hurting another person.
The minds of moslims are hotwired to concentrate on murder and mayhem; how they can, when they can, and to whom they can, commit crimes of terror.
I seem to recall that it was the Apostle Paul who defined the difference in the “spiritual man and the physical man.”
What would he and Peter, John, James and the others write about islam? They would define it as straight from satan the devil, the enemy of God and humankind.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comments, somehistory and Greg. I agree with what you have said. islam is the perfect ideology for a person who wants to get around doing harm to people, especially to non-members of the evil cult and yet have a sick version of what god is supposed to be like approve of the evil actions of the person. I have come across Muslims who seemed to be OK (I didn’t know them well and I must say that I didn’t trust them) but, despite this, Islam surely is a disgusting ideology which inculcates a very nasty attitude in its members. It poisons people’s minds and, as you say, somehistory, hotwires them for murder and mayhem. Greg, as you say, Islam’s idea of morality (killing non-Muslims and those who try to ditch islam, marrying off young girls, honour killings, etc) is barbaric crap.
Crusades Were Right says
Since Armenian Christians were (and very possibly still are being) murdered, tortured and abused by Azerbaijani/Turkish (and other) Mohammedans on European soil with no serious objections from the “international community”, then I’m not surprised that Mohammedans in the Holy Land feel emboldened to attack Christians there without fearing any serious repercussions either.
In other words, they got the “memo”.
Lion heart says
Crusades were right : as a Canadian Christian guy myself originally from Iraq, I wanna say that the bastard Saddam Hussein used to give to the family of each Palestinian Islamic terrorist who blew himself up among the Israelis 25,000 Euro while his petiole were suffering horribly and after he had fallen ( good riddance to him ) the Palestinian in Iraq especially in a very famous neighbourhood in Baghdad called “ Haifa street “ were given special privileges to Iraqis ( money , homes etc.. ) Palestinians were committing terrorist attack against the Americans and Iraqi security forces on daily basis and many of them blew themselves up in Iraq ! One worst people of Arab Muslims are the Palestinians .
gravenimage says
A dance party in the West Bank becomes the latest episode of Muslim oppression of Christians
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Just horrible–there is no joy in Islam, and they don’t want anyone else to have any fun, either.
somehistory says
“there is no joy in Islam,” reminds me of the line, “There is no joy in Muddville. Mighty Casey has struck out.”
the fake prophet of islam “struck out,” when he tried to force the Jews and the Christians to let him in and both groups recognized his filthy, evil slime of character and said ‘no.’
“Joy ” is a fruit of God’s Holy Spirit. Just proves, once again, that moslims don’t worship the Holy God of the Bible.
Mojdeh says
It is Muslim intentionally do not like dance or musics and be happy. How ever many Muslims which just are Muslims by name only are different like dancing do not bother any one and themselves escaped from enemy of their country. So those Harami , Harmazadeha , they are in PLO and hate Christianism celebrate Christmas indeed. Of course stupid Mullahs they have make them more axx of them selves. When ever IAF bomb the hell of them pretty much got revenges back from Muslims dummy that harass Christians.
Islam is Parasite of World. Again we taking about fundamentalism. Politically right.
seabird says
Why wouldn’t they be insulted and offended by the repugnant message of Christians with their “Peace on Earth, goodwill towards men” rantings and obscene songs and dances of joy?
We should go after Islam’s tax exempt status in the US on the grounds of discrimination and incitement of violence.
Is that too much to ask?