Muslim Fired Rocket at School Bus, One Child Critically Injuried

It seems no care if a Jew suffers, but when someone burns a Koran, it remains as headline news for days. Everybody seems to be a bunch of pansies when Islam gets mentioned. Why? Are up afraid of getting beheaded?

Jerusalem (AP) — An anti-tank missile fired from the Gaza Strip struck a school bus in southern Israel Thursday, wounding two people, including one child critically, Israeli officials said.

Israel’s defense minister, Ehud Barak, ordered the army to respond quickly and said he held the Hamas militant group, which rules Gaza, responsible for the violence. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack.

Israeli medical services said the bus was nearly empty after dropping off school children and was carrying only the driver and a lone passenger at the time of the attack. Paramedics were trying to resuscitate a 16-year-old boy with a serious head wound at the scene. The driver was moderately wounded.

TV footage showed a yellow bus with its windows blown out and its rear charred. Police said it was struck by an anti-tank missile.

Freedom Is Not Having a Modesty Police In Egypt

I thought Egypt wanted Democracy after they force Mubarak out of office. The Egyptian people are moving from a dictatorship to a radical Islamic state. I have talked from this from time to time. Regime change doesn't work. The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Now, the only organization strong enough to impose Sharia Law and radical Islam is the Muslim Brotherhood. They are working with the Egyptian military to impose their Islamic views to the Egyptian people. The virtue or modesty police is one example of forcing Sharia Law to the people of Egypt. This is not freedom. Next, it will be discriminating Christians that live in Egypt because Islam and Christianity doesn't mix. If the Muslim Brotherhood wins the fall elections, I would expect Egypt provoking Israel into an ugly war.

(FavStocks) Muslim Brotherhood officials must be confident in their chances in this fall’s Egyptian parliamentary elections. David Miller of Media Line picked up an Egyptian newspaper report citing a member of the Brotherhood’s governing board calling for a squad of virtue police created to act against “those who commit immoral acts.”

Issam Durbala’s vision aims to protect public virtue and modesty with “limited authorities,” Miller reports, which means something short of Saudi Arabia’s vice police. [Note: Miller identifies Durbala as a Brotherhood official, other sourcesplace him in the Gama'a Al-Islamiya, or Islamic Group].

Moderates and secularists in Egypt are alarmed by the growing influence of religious conservatives in Egypt. They’ll have to scramble to compete in the fall elections against the larger, better organized Brotherhood.

It was the Birth of Christ that brought a Truce between Muslims and Jews for a Day

Imagine if it was Christmas everyday in Bethlehem.........

(News Max) BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — The traditional birthplace of Jesus is celebrating its merriest Christmas in years, as tens of thousands of tourists thronged Bethlehem on Friday for the annual holiday festivities in this biblical West Bank town.

Officials said the turnout was shaping up to be the largest since 2000. Unseasonably mild weather, a virtual halt in Israeli-Palestinian violence and a burgeoning economic revival in the West Bank all added to the holiday cheer.

By nightfall, a packed Manger Square was awash in red, blue, green and yellow Christmas lights.

Merrymakers blasted horns, bands sang traditional Christmas carols in Arabic, boy scout marching bands performed and Palestinian policemen deployed around the town to keep the peace.

Bethlehem used to attract tens of thousands of tourists from around the world for Christmas celebrations, but attendance dropped sharply following the outbreak of the second Palestinian uprising in 2000.

As the fighting tapered off over the last five years, attendance steadily climbed. The town's 2,750 hotel rooms were booked solid for Christmas week, and town officials say more hotels are under construction.

Israeli officials have said they expect about 90,000 visitors in Bethlehem during the current two-week holiday season, up from 70,000 last year.

But the bloodshed has left its mark. Visitors entering the town must cross through a massive metal gate in the separation barrier Israel built between Jerusalem and Bethlehem during a wave of Palestinian attacks last decade.