Gunmen Storm EU Office in Gaza

From the AP with a hat tip to The Religion of Peace.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Masked gunmen on Monday briefly took over a European Union office to protest a Danish newspaper's publication of cartoons deemed insulting to Islam's Prophet Muhammad, the latest in a wave of violent denunciations of the caricatures across the Islamic world.

The gunmen demanded an apology from Denmark and Norway, and said citizens of the two countries would be prevented from entering the Gaza Strip.

"We are calling on the citizens of the two countries to take this threat seriously because our cells are ready to implement this all over Gaza," one militant said.

Today there are probably hundreds of thousands of Scandinavians trying to trade in their Gaza travel tour junkets. Though no doubt disappointed that they will miss the color and pageantry of an all-out rock, rocket and rifle riot on the bomb-pocked streets of Gaza, a gentle drive to the fjords might have to suffice.