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Militants bomb Gaza YMCA library

February 19, 2008 - 9:54am — Blake

Gunmen have attacked the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in Gaza City and blown up its library, burning thousands of books, its director says.
Eissa Saba said 14 men overpowered the centre's two security guards before placing bombs in the library and main office. The latter did not explode.

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February 19, 2008 - 1:17pm — Florida Librarian (not verified)

Reality

How about this headline "Radical Islamic Fascists bomb Gaza YMCA library". Let's not be too PC with who we are dealing with here.

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February 19, 2008 - 6:11pm — Chuck

not far enough

I don't think that sends the proper message. I would have gone with:

"Radical, Fanatical, Islamo-Wahahbbo-Muslo-totalitarian, America-hating, white-women-leering, freedom-on-spitting, John Kerry supporting, Jane Fonda loving, copy of "9 to 5" owning" fascists bomb YMCA Gaza library"

That will let them know we are serious.

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February 19, 2008 - 4:57pm — Lee Hadden

Libraries Frequent Targets

Libraries are a frequent target in Palestine. Hamas knocked out an al Fatah university library last summer, after Al Fatah forces burned out a Hamas backed library. The frequent cry of "He hit me back first!" is heard daily. The march to ignorance and religious intolerance continues apace.
Poor Allah. There is a lot of evil and sin commited in His name by vicious brutes.
The best way to fight this, of course, is to digitize as many Arabic books and magazines as possible, and make them available for free on the Internet, rather than house real paper books in a real library. The Alexandria Library project in Egypt is attempting to do this, but is moving too slowly, and is having too much difficulty with censorship and funding.
Meanwhile, a famine of self-imposed intellectual stimulation is infecting Gaza. As in Soviet Russia, Communist china and Facist Germany, the powers in Gaza want to control the thinking of thier citizens, and to reduce outside influences that might lead them to question authority. There is nothing to do there but feed upon each other, until they wise up and become, once more, "People of the Book".

R. Lee Hadden (These are my own opinions!)

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