21 November 2006
Lebanese Christian Leader Assassinated
CBNNews.com -- BEIRUT, Lebanon - Prominent anti-Syrian Christian politician Pierre Gemayel was assassinated in a suburb of Beirut on
Tuesday, his Phalange Party radio station and Lebanon's official news agency reported.
The slaying will certainly heighten political tensions in Lebanon, where the leading Muslim Shiite party Hezbollah has threatened to topple the government if it does not get a bigger say in Cabinet decision-making.
Gemayel was shot in his car in Jdeideh, a Christian neighborhood, his constituency on the northern edge of Beirut, witnesses said. A car rammed his vehicle from behind and then a gunman stepped out and shot him at point-blank range, they said.
Gemayel was rushed to a nearby hospital, according to the Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. and the Voice of Lebanon, the Phalange Party mouthpiece. The party radio later said he was dead, as did the National News Agency.
In Washington, the State Department denounced the assassination as terrorism and an attempt to intimidate the governing coalition in Beirut.
Saad Hariri, leader of the anti-Syrian parliamentary majority, broke off a televised news conference after hearing Gemayel had been shot.
In an interview with CNN, Hariri praised him as "a friend, a brother to all of us" and appeared to break down after saying: "We will bring justice to all those who killed him."
Gemayel, the minister of industry and son of former President Amin Gemayel, was a supporter of the anti-Syrian parliamentary majority, which is locked in a power struggle with pro-Syrian factions led by Hezbollah.
Gemayel is the third prominent figure in Lebanon to be assassinated in the past two years. Former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Saad Hariri's father, was killed in a car bombing in February 2005, and lawmaker and newspaper manager Gibran Tueni was killed in a car bombing in December 2005.
Gemayel was first elected to parliament in 2005 and was believed to be the youngest lawmaker in the body, where anti-Syrian groups dominate.
He hailed from a prominent family of politicians. His father, Amin, served as president between 1982 and 1988. His grandfather, the late Pierre Gemayel, led the right-wing Christian Phalange Party that fielded the largest Christian militia during the 1975-90 civil war between Christians and Muslims.
Amin Gemayel was elected by parliament after the assassination of his brother, Bashir, who was chosen president but was killed a few days before he was to take office.
The Phalange Party dominated Christian politics for decades after Lebanon's independence from France in 1943, and Amin Gemayel is its current leader.
Pierre was a rising star in the party and expected to carry the mantle of the political family.
During the civil war, the Phalange had the largest Christian militia that fought Muslim forces and Palestinian guerrillas. The death of the senior Pierre Gemayel in 1983, the shrinking Christian community, and internal dissent have seriously weakened the party, which could not get its own leader elected to parliament in 2000.
Copyright 2006 The Associated Press
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Conflicts between Christians and non-Christians have at times resulted in the persecution by Christians of non-Christians. Christians have also persecuted each other when conflicts arose between different Christian denominations. Such persecutions have extended to a wide variety of religious and social minorities within predominantly Christian countries.
Such persecution has included unwarranted arrest, war, inquisition, imprisonment, beating, rape, torture, execution or ethnic cleansing. It also may refer to the confiscation or destruction of property, or incitement to hate non-Christians. In some cases such persecution has been visited upon those who consider themselves Christian, but are regarded as non-Christians by members of the dominant Christian denomination, such as Catholic Christians in majority Protestant areas, vice versa, and so forth.
Posted by: Bill Marcus | 22 November 2006
yeah unfortunately, Muslims want to kill us all and are doing it not "at times" but constantly. planes crashing into buildings, suicide bombings, huge riots, foaming at the mouth over cartoons. These people are the worst Ive ever seen.
Qur’an:9:29 “Fight those who do not believe until they all surrender, paying the protective tax in submission.”
Posted by: Bob | 28 November 2006
Come to jihad watch to see the ongoing battle Islam has with the free world. I dont see Christians do all the stuff Islam is doing. Anyway that is irrelevant because its muslims who have thousands of organized terror cels all over the world ("ireland" thats a laugh!)
www.jihadwatch.org
Posted by: Bob | 28 November 2006
[Quran: 7:199] ......You shall resort to pardon, advocate tolerance, and disregard the ignorant.
What does bible say:.....[Murdering Children?????]
Kill Sons of Sinners
Make ready to slaughter his sons for the guilt of their fathers; Lest they rise and posses the earth, and fill the breadth of the world with tyrants. (Isaiah 14:21 NAB)
Posted by: Does the Quran teach terrorism? | 28 November 2006
May. 26 (CWNews.com) - An investigator working for the Catholic archdiocese of Melbourne, Australia, has acknowledged that a priest there may have participated in satanic ritual murders, according to Australian media reports
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=44405
Posted by: Australian priest accused of ritual murders | 28 November 2006
Qur’an:4:95 “Not equal are those believers who sit at home and
receive no injurious hurt, and those who strive hard, fighting
Jihad in Allah’s Cause with their wealth and lives. Allah has
granted a rank higher to those who strive hard, fighting Jihad
with their wealth AND BODIES to those who sit (at home). Unto each
has Allah promised good, but He prefers Jihadists who strive hard
and fight above those who sit home. He has distinguished his
fighters with a huge reward.”
I invite all muslims to come to
http://inshallahshaheed.wordpress.com/
where true Islam is respected and followed.
exchristian you are not a real muslim but a christian pretending
to be one I invite you to Islam and we will be brothers. Come to
the site
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Posted by: shamir | 28 November 2006
Many of you seem to be very frightened and surprised by the fact that I openly preach Jihad for the sake of Allah, as it is ordained in our Religion. Keep in mind, I only preach that which is in the Qur’an and Sunnah; and those who tell you that preaching from these two sources is not necessary, do not listen to them; even if they call themselves Muslim since Allah says,
يٰأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ آمَنُوۤاْ أَطِيعُواْ ٱللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَلاَ تَوَلَّوْا عَنْهُ وَأَنْتُمْ تَسْمَعُونَ
وَلاَ تَكُونُواْ كَالَّذِينَ قَالُوا سَمِعْنَا وَهُمْ لاَ يَسْمَعُونَ
إِنَّ شَرَّ ٱلدَّوَابِّ عِندَ ٱللَّهِ ٱلصُّمُّ ٱلْبُكْمُ ٱلَّذِينَ لاَ يَعْقِلُونَ
O ye who believe! Obey Allah and His Messenger, and turn not away from him when ye hear (him speak). And be not like those who said, ‘We hear’, and they did not obey. For the worst of creatures in the sight of Allah are the deaf and the dumb; they are those who understand not. (al-Anfaal: 20-22)
If this disturbs you come and discuss it with samir (I am Shamir a different person and a humble servant only )
Posted by: Shamir | 28 November 2006
"Indeed, we came from Allah, and unto Him we shall return; this is the Journey to the Mercy of Allah."
InshAllahShaheed
http://inshallahshaheed.wordpress.com
I invite you to Islam and the blessings of Allah will be upon you
Posted by: Shamir | 28 November 2006
Grand Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi of the Al-Azhar mosque of Cairo - which is seen as the highest authority in Sunni Islam - said groups which carried out suicide bombings were the enemies of Islam.
Posted by: SDFddg7t6543 | 28 November 2006
8:46 And obey Allah and His Messenger. and fall into no disputes, lest ye lose heart and your power depart; and be patient and persevering: For Allah is with those who patiently persevere: - English
Topics discussed in this Verse:
[Allah:obey Him] [Muhammad:obey him] [Obediance to Allah and His messenger] [Patience] [Warfare rules of]
WaateeAAoo Allaha warasoolahu wala tanazaAAoo fatafshaloo watathhaba reehukum waisbiroo inna Allaha maAAa alssabireena
وَأَطِيعُواْ اللّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَلاَ تَنَازَعُواْ فَتَفْشَلُواْ وَتَذْهَبَ رِيحُكُمْ وَاصْبِرُواْ إِنَّ اللّهَ مَعَ الصَّابِرِينَ
Posted by: straight Quran | 28 November 2006
Jihad does not mean "holy war." Literally, jihad in Arabic means to strive, struggle and exert effort. It is a central and broad Islamic concept that includes struggle against evil inclinations within oneself, struggle to improve the quality of life in society, struggle in the battlefield for self-defense or fighting against tyranny or oppression.
If someone kills another person—unless it is in retaliation for someone else or for causing corruption in the earth—it is as if he had murdered all mankind. And if anyone gives life to another person, it is as if he had given life to all mankind. Our Messengers came to them with Clear Signs, but even after that, many of them committed outrages in the earth. (Qur’an, 5:32)
Posted by: Jihad does not mean "holy war | 28 November 2006
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