Christian suicide bomber?

EliPledge | 12:34 Sat 08th May 2004 | News

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On Newsnight a couple of weeks ago, an Islamic academic said that the first suicide bomber of the current Intifada was a Christian. Has anybody any details of this?

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thewillow

I'm an atheist but even I know that a 'christian' could not be a suicide bomber. I think that the word is 'terrorist'.

EliPledge

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So, thewillow, you don't have any further details then?

nedflanders

have a nosey here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/32568
58.stm but there is no mention of a christian ??? I can't see why a christian would want to kill jews though ??? unless they were brainwashed like the rest of the "martyrs"

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Couldn't find details on the BBC, nedflander: but a (declining) minority of Palestinians are Christians e.g George Habash of the PFLP. I know there was a PFLP suicide bomber last year but not sure of his religious affiliation, and he certainly wasn't the first of the Intifada. "Brainwashed" - aren't we being a bit hard on the long-suffering Palestinian people? At least they have the honour to accept death on their mission - unlike the Israeli helicopter gunship pilots.

poadster

Whatever he(or she) was then, they sure won't be it now, so who cares.

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