Excerpt from an article in today's edition of Ha'aretz:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/763141.html Gaza church blast causes minor damage.
Also Friday, a small explosion caused minor damage in a courtyard outside a Greek Orthodox church in Gaza City, church workers said. The early morning blast appeared to have been caused by a small, homemade explosive device, which damaged a door and caused minor damage to the floor and walls, church workers said. No one was wounded.
A second explosion hit the church hours later and a concussion grenade was thrown near the church in the afternoon.
Neither of those blasts caused major damage, but church officials worried that the attacks were retaliation for remarks that Pope Benedict XVI made Tuesday that angered Muslims.
"This is the first time this has ever happened to our church," said the church's priest, Rev. Artinious Alexious. "We don't know why they have done this. We are Greek Orthodox and have no relation to the Pope."
Hossam Taweel, a Christian lawmaker and representative of Gaza's Christians, said there was no firm link between the attacks and the controversy over the Pope. "We deal with this incident as a criminal activity and not as a sectarian act," he said.
As for the lawmakers observations in the last paragraph - Yeah, right. :rolleyes:
Seems to me that the multiple bombing of any religious site is not only a criminal act (duh!) but by definition a terrorist / sectarian attack as well.
~Isaac
