 [Al Arabiya Latest] Hundreds of Jewish settlers angry at reduced settlement building burned pages of Islam's holy book in an attack on a West Bank mosque as Palestinian Christians called for sanctions on "evil" Israel and rejected Christian Zionism, press reports said Saturday.
Burned pages of the Quran lay scattered on the mosque's torched carpet as Israelis from the settlement of Tappuah spray painted in large Hebrew letters "Get ready to pay the price," a statement referring to a recent government decision to curb settlement building, only in the West Bank and for only 10 months.
| A lovely report from Al Arabiya. What odds it's anything remotely like true? I've never heard of anything like this before. |
| 1:34 pm ET: The police are looking into the incident, according to the Jerusalem Post. Nonetheless, a group of Israeli rabbis have popped by the village to give the elders copies of the Quran to replace those burnt, and to condemn the unknowns who acted so badly. |
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