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| The '''Christian bookstore, Gaza''' also called '''The Teacher's Bookshop''' was operated by the ] and located in ]. It was the sole Christian bookstore in Gaza.<ref name=Alford/><ref name=Klein/><ref name='JP 2007-10-07'> {{cite news | title = Palestinian Christian activist found dead in Gaza City | date = 2007-10-07 | url = http://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=77449 | work = The Jerusalem Post | accessdate = 2010-09-20}}</ref><ref name='AP 2007-12-23'> {{cite news | title = After murder, Gaza’s Christians keep low profile | date = 2007-12-23 | publisher = ] | url = http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22380080/ | work = Associated Press | accessdate = 2010-09-20}}</ref> | |||
| ==Store== | |||
| The store, established in 1998, sold Bibles and Christian books, contained an ] and offered computer classes.<ref name=Ormestad/><ref name=Alford/><ref name=abpnews/> According to the ], some Palestinian Christians who prefer to maintain a low profile in predominantly Muslim Gaza were uncomfortable with Ayyad's bookstore because of its high-visibility work and because of its connections with foreign Protestants.<ref name=KuwaitTimes/> | |||
| ==Islamization== | |||
| The ] under Hamas has put increasing pressure on the tiny Christian minority.<ref name=Ormestad/> Following the Hamas takeover of Gaza in 2007, Sheik ], leader of ], an Islamic outreach movement that announced the founding of a "military wing" to enforce ] in Gaza, said: "I expect our Christian neighbors to understand the new Hamas rule means real changes. They must be ready for Islamic rule if they want to live in peace in Gaza." <ref></ref> Sheik Saqer has asserted that there is "no need" for Christians in Gaza to maintain Christian institutions and demanded that Hamas "must work to impose an Islamic rule or it will lose the authority it has and the will of the people."<ref name=Klein/> | |||
| ==Bombings== | |||
| The store, located in the center of Gaza City, was bombed on February 3, 2006, and, with more severe damage, on April 15, 2007.<ref name=Alford/><ref name=abpnews> ABP Staff, April 20, 2007, Associated Baptist Press.</ref><ref name=Vu> Michelle Vu, April 17, 2007, The Christian Post.</ref><ref name=alMughrabi> Nidal al-Mughrabi, April 15, 2007, Reuters.</ref> Following the 2006 attack, the store employees received a note demanding that they close the store.<ref name=abpnews/> The armed gunmen who set the 2007 bomb abducted the security guard, beat him and left him outside the city. He recovered from his injuries.<ref name=abpnews/> | |||
| ==Murder of bookseller== | |||
| Bookshop manager Rami Ayyad, 26, was kidnapped, and found after he had been beaten, stabbed and shot to death in October, 2007.<ref name=Belz/><ref name=Klein/><ref name=Ormestad> Catrin Ormestad, November 1, 2007, Haaretz.</ref><ref name=KuwaitTimes> October 08, 2007, Kuwait Times.</ref> Ayyad, who was active in the ], left a pregnant wife and two young children.<ref name=Alford> Deann Alford, 10/08/2007, Christianity Today.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/palestinian-christian-activist-stabbed-to-death-in-gaza-1.230592 | |||
| |title=Palestinian Christian activist stabbed to death in Gaza|date=07.10.07|publisher=Associated Press|accessdate=22.08.10}}</ref><ref name=Silver> Eric Silver, 8 October 2007, The Independent.</ref> "Muslim extremists" were suspected in the killing.<ref name=Silver/> Witnesses claim to have seen 3 armed men, 2 of whom wore masks, beating Ayyad rwith the butts of their guns and with clubs as they accused him of working to spread Christianity in Gaza.<ref name=Klein>[http://www.nysun.com/foreign/christian-bookstore-owner-was-tortured-before-his/64354/ "Christian Bookstore Owner Was Tortured Before His Death," Aaron Klein, October 11, 2007, New York Sun.</ref> | |||
| According to '']'', this was one in a series of attacks on the Christian store by what were "assumed to be radical Islamic groups."<ref name=Ormestad/> The store had received an unsigned letter demanding that it close.<ref name=Ormestad/> According Ayad's widow, Pauline, 2 months before her husband was murdered, a man had entered the store and demanded to know why Ayad was not a Muslim. When Ayad responded that he believed in Jesus, the man had said, "I know how to make you become a Muslim."<ref name=Ormestad/> | |||
| A Palestinian Christian in Gaza who requested anonymity told an AP reporter that Ayyal, "paid his life for his faith, for his dignity, and the dignity of the Bible and Jesus Christ."<ref name=Alford/> | |||
| Ayyad's widow and 3 children moved to the ] and the store closed.<ref name=Belz> Mindy Belz, May 8, 2010, World Magazine.</ref> | |||
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