In fact, Arab terrorists in Israel have started dozens of major forest fires over the years.
As far back as 1988, Israeli police caught more than a dozen Palestinian adults in the act of setting fires, while other Arabs confessed to arson after arrest. Some fires followed specific calls by underground Arab terrorists. A leaflet issued by the Palestinian uprising's underground leadership called for ''the destruction and burning of the enemy's properties, industry and agriculture.''
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said at the time: ''The need to set fires, which also leads to murders, is in my eyes worse than fundamentalism.''
But, he said, the vast majority of deliberate fires are started by Arabs with political motives.
Egypt arrests 22 converts from Islam to Christianity and searches for 80 more.
Washington D.C (10/23/03) – U.S. Copts Association received several phone calls from families and friends of over 20 Egyptian secret converts from Islam to Christianity who have been detained by the Egyptian police since October 20th.
The assault started with the arrest of a husband and wife who secretly converted from Islam to Christianity. Yousef Samuel Makari Suliman, whose former Muslim name was Muhammad Ahmad Imam al-Kurdi and his wife Mariam Girgis Makar formerly Saher El-Sayid Abd al-Kani and their two daughters, Sarah and Marina (formerly Sarah and Shaymaa) all had secretly converted to Christianity and had been living as Christians in hiding. ..... Lawyers who were able to visit the couple report that Mariam Girgis has been the subject of sexual assault and attempted rape by police officers. In addition, she and her husband were beaten and physically abused. .... ....Under sever torture; the police was able to extract the names of some 100 other converts who secured new ID cards with Christian names. Immediately, thereafter, 20 more converts were arrested in Alexandria alone....