Posted on 01/31/2005 12:35:01 PM PST by Alouette
A 10-year-old Arab girl was killed Monday by celebratory gunfire as PA Arabs departed for their pilgrimage to Mecca. Her death was initially blamed on the IDF by PA and UN officials.
The girl was shot as she stood outside a UN-sponsored school in Rafiah, in Gaza. Suspicion surrounded the initial claims that the IDF was responsible for the girl's death due to the fact that no IDF activity had taken place anywhere near the school.
It was later revealed by the Ynet news agency that hundreds of shots had been fired into the air by Muslims celebrating the departure of friends and family on the Hajj, a once-in-a-lifetime visit to Islam's holy cities, Mecca and Medina - incumbent upon every Muslim.
The girl was killed when one of the bullets struck her in the head.
Give them a couple dozen GE mini-guns to fire off in the air...there will be fewer of these reports...
I'm sorry, Mohammed says quite clearly in the Quran that what goes up to Allah, stays with Allah. /sarcasm
Someone needs to teach these imbeciles to fire their RPGs up in the air.
have seen footage of those looney, towel-heads shooting automatic weapons and am surprised that only now has there been a report of someone being killed.
Gravity is an Infidel plot!
Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt. (May they perish who have expressed our bright ideas before us.)
I was just about to post that cases like this could be awarded the Darwin By Proxy prize.
What goes up, must come down. Do the Palestinians believe they are immune to the laws of gravity?
It will be nice when those idiots learn about gravity, as in, "what goes up, comes down".
But now the Hajj season has started again, oh joy. Remember a few years ago before the "Stoning of the Devil" rock throwing contest near Mecca when a bunch of Muslim pilgrims were trampled/suffocated to death on the narrow bridge leading to the site? That was probably the IDF's fault also, somehow causing all those Muslims to stampede.< /sarcasm>
Or New Year's in Detroit.
I know...all the first stories I read blamed the IDF unequivecally.
If that curse worked, Freepers would be perishing all over the place.:)
They have the "Stoning of the Devil" ritual every year. This year only about a dozen "martyrs" were trampled, as opposed to 250 a year ago.
They would try to blame that on the IDF, or on Bush, even though no Jews or christians are allowed to tread the "sacred soil" of Mecca.
The Arab world gave up on progress in scientific knowledge after Islam took over in the 6th and 7th centuries. Before that they named the visible stars, created the numbering system used globally today (as opposed to hieroglyphics or roman numerals), and were the greatest mathematicians and mapmakers in the world.
Now they are still stuck in the middle ages.
What happened, did the IDF slack off or did the Saudis finally learn to build a bigger bridge?
I reread the article, and it seems to have morphed into a somewhat more balanced account. Still, they retain the passage "The death is the second such fatality in the area in two days. Israeli troops shot and killed a 65-year-old man who was walking near an army post on Sunday.", clearly implying their perception of who is at fault in this case.
No real surprise there!
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