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Jaffa mosque daubed with 'Mohammed is a pig,' 'Death to Arabs'
By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Israel News, Jaffa mosque 

Extremists spray-painted "Mohammed is a pig" and "Death to Arabs" early Sunday on the walls and doors of the Sea Mosque in Jaffa, sparking the fury of the Islamic Movement in the mixed Arab-Jewish city.

The hate slogans also included "Kahane was right," a reference to the slain Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the outlawed anti-Arab Kach movement, and "No peace without the House of Peace," alluding to the Hebron structure from which dozens of far-right activists were evicted earlier this month.

Two Stars of David were painted on the entrance to the mosque.
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Worshippers discovered the graffiti when they arrived for early morning prayers on Sunday. Sheikh Ahmed Abu Ajweh, head of the Islamic Movement in Jaffa, condemned the acts. He blamed settlers for the graffiti, saying that similar offenses had been committed in the West Bank.

"This is an outgrowth of lessened sentences for those Jews who have been proven to have attacked our holy sites, he said, noting the hurling of a pig's head in 2005 at the Hassan Beck mosque on the border with neighboring Tel Aviv, opposite the site of the Dolphinarium terror bombing that killed 21 people four years before.

The man who threw the head, an act which coincided with the disengagement from Gaza, was later sentenced to nine months in jail.

While Israel strongly protests desecration of Jewish cemeteries in Europe, there is incitement within Israel against everything Muslim, Sheikh Abu Ajweh said.


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      2.   Not only an Israeli phenomena...... 13:28  |  Swiss (Dino) 21/12/08
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      6.   THIS IS A 2ND TIME SINCE THE LAST MONTH 14:30  |  indrajaya 21/12/08
      7.   do Muslims protest Hamas`s teachings that jews are pigs? 14:40  |  Richard S 21/12/08
      8.   Next time I hear 14:42  |  Chris Linthwaite 21/12/08
      9.   #8 Chris Linthwaite 14:49  |  Joe W 21/12/08
      10.   #9 Joe W really? 15:13  |  Chris Linthwaite 21/12/08
      11.   Christ Linthwaite 15:15  |  Nephtaly 21/12/08
      12.   Proud Muslim 15:22  |  Proud Muslim 21/12/08
      13.   a sad day 15:23  |  Jonathan 21/12/08
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      15.   Sad 16:18  |  Anthony 21/12/08
      16.   #3 16:19  |  Anthony 21/12/08
      17.   #2 Swiss......since Europe doesn`t believe 16:28  |  Lynn 21/12/08
      18.   Additionally, To Demonstrate How Ignorant... 16:29  |  Yosemite 21/12/08
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      23.   # 4 pamela 17:21  |  Axel 21/12/08
      24.   swiss dino-spare us the righteous self-indignation 17:42  |  Arie 21/12/08
      25.   re: Yosemite 18:28  |  UsedToPostHere 21/12/08
      26.   Lynn what a silly thing to say...EU is mutiethnic 18:58  |  so is USA 21/12/08
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      29.   #3 Proud Jew `Muslims are shooting rockets...` 19:29  |  Colin Wright 21/12/08
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      34.   Dino`s ridiculous questions 20:11  |  SDHD 21/12/08
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      41.   This abominable behavior 22:48  |  Elihu 21/12/08
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