Reuters: Israel confirms H5N1, culls poultry

With a thousand birds dead, Israel quite sensibly put its containment measures in place.

Well, we learned from Israel about how to keep an airline secure. Now we shall learn from them how to contain the avian flu.

Meanwhile, on the Jihad Watch, a Palestinian cleric offered a rather disgusting "prayer" during Friday services. I quote:

Praise Allah the bird flu has hit the Jews. It came because of their sins against the Palestinians; because they are the most cruel enemy of humanity; because they are themselves the enemy of humanity; because they don't believe in Allah; because they falsify the book of Allah; because they cheated the prophet Muhammed; and because they cheated Allah and even their own prophet, Moses.

This bird flu will be the beginning of diseases which will hit the nonbelievers. Please Allah keep hitting the enemy with more diseases. This is no doubt the beginning of the end of the Israelis. Like [late Hamas spiritual leader] Sheikh Yassin said, 2025 will be the end of Jews. This [bird flu] is the sign.

All these quotes come from WorldNetDaily, who got it from someone who was at the service. (The Sheikh Yassin referred to in the quote was someone who calculated the end of the Jews by 2025, using Koranic references--similar to someone trying to set a date for a biblical prophecy.)

Now I ask you: how would the world react to a Christian who called such a doom on a Muslim population? Well, we know how they would react. But I predict that these quotes will be exclusive to WorldNetDaily, and perhaps to Sean Hannity and John Batchelor's radio programs. I especially will be curious to see whether anyone will quote that cleric praying that Allah "dry out the sexual organs of the Jews with a disease so they won't be able to reproduce anymore."