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sundubuman
Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Location: seoul
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:13 am Post subject: Catholic Priests Being Targeted in Turkey... |
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Creative Thinking Idiotarian Award for anyone who can blame these violent attacks against Catholic Priests in Turkey on America, Jews, Israelis, or Jewish Israeli-Americans.........or any combo therein...
Or of course you could try the Islamophobia angle....fear of/discrimination against Islam in the west is directly responsible for these attacks...
anything is okay as long as you generally absolve the Muslim fanatics and blame something Western.
Catholic priest knifed in Turkey
Father Pierre Brunissen
Father Brunissen was admitted to hospital after the knife attack
A French Roman Catholic priest has been stabbed by a knife-carrying attacker in the Turkish Black Sea port of Samsun.
The attack on Father Pierre Brunissen, 74, is the third assault on a Catholic priest in Turkey in recent months.
Fr Brunissen was stabbed in the hip and leg and rushed to hospital, but a church official said his condition was not life-threatening.
Police detained an unnamed 47-year-old man who they described as suffering from mental illness.
Priests 'targeted'
The man had allegedly made complaints about Fr Brunissen trying to convert people to his faith.
Reports said he was attacked in a busy street about 1km from his church.
"I hope this has nothing to with Islamic fundamentalism," Monsignor Luigi Padovese, the apostolic vicar for Anatolia, told the Associated Press news agency .
"The climate has changed... it is the Catholic priests that are being targeted."
Father Andrea Santoro, an Italian, was shot dead in his church in the northern town of Trabzon in February.
A 16-year-old boy has been charged with the 60-year-old priest's death. Witnesses said the youth yelled "God is great" in Arabic before firing two bullets into Santoro's back.
Another priest, a Slovenian, was grabbed by the throat, thrown into a garden and received death threats during an attack in the port of Izmir, AP said. |
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dogbert

Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Location: Killbox 90210
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:28 am Post subject: |
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That's nothing.
The Pope was once _shot_ by a Turk.
Those swarthy f*ckers have had a hard on for papists for centuries, if not millennia. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:56 am Post subject: |
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Creative Thinking Idiotarian Award for anyone who can blame these violent attacks against Catholic Priests in Turkey on America, Jews, Israelis, or Jewish Israeli-Americans.........or any combo therein...
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I'd be interested to read your list of Dave's posters who you think would normally be inclined to blame such random violence on those groups. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 5:34 am Post subject: |
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Martyrdom should be its own reward. |
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