Witnesses: Prominent Palestinian Christian Slain for Spreading Christianity
By Eric Young
Christian Post Reporter
Thu, Oct. 11 2007

A prominent Palestinian Christian found dead this past weekend on a Gaza City street was publicly beaten by Islamic gunmen who accused him of spreading Christianity, witnesses and Palestinian Arab security officials have reported.

And although no group has yet taken responsibility for the attack on 32-year-old Rami Khader Ayyad, at least one group says such attacks will persist if “missionary activity” continues to take place now that Hamas has seized complete control of the Gaza Strip.

Since the Islamic group came to power in June, "the situation has changed 180 degrees in Gaza," Islamic leader Sheik Abu Saqer told the New York Sun for a report that appeared Thursday. Saquer’s Islamic outreach movement, Jihadia Salafiya, recently formed a military wing to enforce Muslim law in Gaza. the rest