[mhking]

[ChicagoRepublican]

And they wanted us to hold off on Ramadan attacks...

[dwills]

should be "TRENT LOTT ALERT"--bigots displaying their ignorance by slandering more than a billion ordinary people for the acts of a few that hijack their religion and a few hundred million that sympathize with them and should be considered separately from the rest

[FourPeas]

Story Here

[FourPeas]

Grenade Hurled at Christian Church in Pakistan Kills One on Christmas Day

Wednesday, December 25, 2002

LAHORE, Pakistan — Assailants tossed at least one grenade at a Christian church in a central Pakistani town on Christmas Day, killing one person and injuring at least seven others, police said.

The attack against the Protestant Christian church in Daska, a town about 40 miles northwest of Lahore, was under investigation, the provincial police said in a statement.

No one claimed responsibility for the attack.

The attack came the same day that police announced they had found explosives and ammunition near a heavily guarded church in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. Church officials feared they had been the intended target of an attack, but went ahead with yuletide services.

Pakistani security officials said they found a shopping bag in bushes containing two handmade grenades and 20 shell casings about 100 yards from the St. Thomas's Protestant Church.

Brig. Javed Cheema, of the Interior Ministry, said the motive for leaving the weapons was not certain.

Since Pakistan lent its support to the U.S.-led military campaign to overthrow Afghanistan's hard-line Taliban, attacks on Christians by suspected Islamic militants have killed about 30 people and injured at least 100. The United States is widely identified as a Christian country.

There have been four deadly attacks on Christians in Pakistan this year. The last was on Sept. 25, when gunmen entered the offices of a Christian welfare organization in Karachi, tied seven employees to their chairs and shot each in the head, execution style.

On March 17, a grenade attack on Protestant church in Islamabad killed five people, including a U.S. Embassy employee and her 17-year-old daughter.

On Aug. 5, assailants raided a Christian school filled with foreign children in Murree, 40 miles east of Islamabad. Six Pakistanis were killed, including guards and non-teaching staff.

And on Aug. 9, attackers hurled grenades at worshippers at a church on the grounds of a Presbyterian hospital in Taxila, about 25 miles west of Islamabad, killing four people.

Radical Islamic groups have been blamed for the attacks aimed at attacking President Pervez Musharraf for his support of the global coalition's war on terror in neighboring Afghanistan.

[swarthyguy]

Body count rising....

AP[ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2002 12:41:55 AM ]

LAHORE: A grenade tossed into a church in Daska, about 70 km from Lahore, on Christmas Day, killed three people and injured at least seven others, police said.

The attack against the Protestant church was under investigation, according to a written statement from the Punjab provincial police in Lahore.

No one has so far taken responsibility, but security in Pakistan had been stepped up ahead of Christmas celebrations.

The attack came the same day that police announced they had found explosives and ammunition near a heavily guarded church in Pakistan's capital of Islamabad. Church officials feared they had been the intended target of an attack, but went ahead with yuletide services.

Since Pakistan lent its support to the US-led military campaign to overthrow Afghanistan's hard-line Taliban, attacks on Christians by suspected Islamic militants have killed about 30 people and injured at least 100.

"So who bears the brunt of Muslim anger and retaliation? We Christians do," said Shabaz Bhatti, a leader in Pakistan's Christian community. "We're the ones who paid the price of America's attacks on Afghanistan."

[VOA]

Hand grenade attack in Pakistan kills one in a church. (RELIGION OF PEACE ALERT)

"Hey, it's what we do!"
(generic truthful news quote by Islamic terrorists)

[uplandgame]

While we all are concerned with even one church being damaged by the "religion of peace", let's not forget about our Christian brothers, orthodox Serbs.
Orthodox Church in Kosovo first suffered in the 1999 NATO campaign. Stray bombs from NATO planes hit indiscriminately at either old churches or monasteries. The arrival of the KFOR international force did nothing to preserve the Serbs' cultural heritage. Albanian terrorists in Kosovo have demolished more than 120 Orthodox churches.
The Serbian Orthodox Church repeatedly turned to the United Nations for protection for religious monuments, many of which date back to the 14th - 16th centuries. It is important to safeguard the shrines from explosions or arson and from acts of vandalism and looting. In an attempt to clear Kosovo of Serb culture and religion, Albanian extremists are getting at Orthodox monasteries destroying murals, crumpling worship structures and stealing whatever they lay their eyes on.
As a result, many priceless icons, holy vessels and church books have been smuggled out of Yugoslavia and are now spotted on the "black markets" in European countries, such as Germany and Greece.
Such barbaric attitude towards religious, architectural and historical monuments in Kosovo have to be stopped. The Serbian Orthodox Church also needs assistance from the international community in construction and restoration work. At the moment it's still possible to save unique murals on the walls of semi-destroyed churches and provide shelter for icons and church items. The centuries-old legacy has to be preserved for the generations to come.

Even BBC put it's own spin on the situation:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/monitoring/media_reports/1717349.stm

[neutrino]

Tut, tut. It's the religion of peace AND love! However could you have forgotten?

[knighthawk]

Assailants tossed at least one grenade at a Christian church in a central Pakistani town on Christmas Day, killing one person and injuring at least seven others, police said.

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