Young man, there's no need to feel down.
I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground.
I said, young man, 'cause you're in a new town
There's no need to be unhappy.

Young man, there's a place you can go.
I said, young man, when you're short on your dough.
You can stay there, and I'm sure you will find
Many ways to have a good time.

It's fun to stay at the y-m-c-a.
It's fun to stay at the y-m-c-a.

But not in the Palestinian territories...

The leadership of a West Bank Palestinian city now controlled by Hamas has warned a local Young Men's Christian Association to close its offices and leave town or face likely Muslim violence, WorldNetDaily has learned.

The move highlighted long-standing fears Hamas would use its win in last January's Palestinian parliamentary elections to impose an anti-Christian, anti-Jewish hard-line Islamist regime in the West Bank and Gaza.

"The face of the new Hamas government is coming to the forefront now that they finally took over and have a lot more confidence. They want to create a territory free of Christians and Jews," said a Christian leader associated with the YMCA in Qalqiliya, a West Bank town under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority.

They don't want no stinking Christians! Ah, the Religion of Peace(tm) is making friends with local businesses. That's nice. Their reasons (other than being stark raving mad) are that they don't want a Christian organization attempting to convert Muslims to Christianity. I used to hang at the Y when I was a teenager, and I assure you, they never bothered with all that. It was a place to go swimming, and nothing more. My theory is that they are worried that a place with running water might give the Abduls and Muhammeds a chance to take a damn shower.

"There was a coordination among the mosques to speak about the YMCA Friday night. One major imam, for example, warned if the YMCA doesn't close down it will lead to 'acts that no one would like to see,'" said one political source.

Acts that no one would like to see... yes, that's what happened in America, too. The YMCA opened, and the next thing you knew, we had the Village People. I guess the Muftis are worried about a new act that might spring up: The Umma People.