ITALY: CATHOLIC WEBSITE ALLEGEDLY SHUT DOWN BY MUSLIM HACKERS

aki ^ | 5/18/7

[NativeNewYorker]

Rome, 17 May (AKI) - A conservative Catholic website claims it has been brought down by Muslim hackers residing in Turkey. Www.totustuus.it - the apostolic motto of late pope John Paul II, "totally yours" - was hacked last Thursday night and remained blocked this week in what its editors believe is a religiously-motivated attack. "In the past two months we had already suffered 70 attacks," the president of the Totus tuus network David Botti told Adnkronos. "Islamic hackers carried out 80 percent of the attacks and of those 25 percent were by Turks belonging to Turkhacks.com," he claimed.

Botti said that "hackers, like all terrorists, have their own signature, for example a propaganda message with which they replace the original text. The most frequent is the Islamic crescent symbol with words offending the Holy Father."

The president of the network believes the hackers are Islamists who wish to strike a well known target: "We believe that more than for our contents which are decidedly pro [pope] Benedict XVI and [president of the Italian Bishops' Conference Angelo] Bagnasco, we are hacked because we are more visible than others. In the hacker's psychology, the more important the website they hack, the more talented they appear in the eyes of people of the same religion or companions."

However, since Botti believes the visitors of his website cannot stop "what for a Muslim is a normal propaganda activity," prayer, rather than technological protection systems against hacking is the key. Readers, he said, need to pray "for our Europe."

(Rak/Aki)

[Running On Empty]

ping

[chopperman]

Its time somebody with the capabilities return the favor to turkhacks.com.

[adiaireton8]

I think that a few weeks ago the Pontificator's site was brought down by Turkish hackers too, for a couple days.

-A8

[NYer]

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[Rome2000]

There isn’t much to do in Turkey for fun.

[the invisib1e hand]

this is the 21st century equivalent of toilet-papering someone’s trees.

[Lewite]

What would really be great, is to drop a couple dozen of those bombs that destroy electrical circuits and equipment all around the area that are in Turkey doing this rot. A few months of suffering and no electricity would make some rag head basturds think twice.

[tob2]

You would hope so. However, Islamic fanatics are bound and determined to destroy anything and everything non-Muslim. Take away one avenue for them to do so and they find another. What a waste of emotions and effort on their part.

[tioga]

Is this an example of a moderate muslim? —one who is busy destroying websites not beheading infidels?

[tob2]

Could be.

[mckenzie7]

Is this an example of a moderate muslim? —one who is busy destroying websites not beheading infidels?

We could only hope and pray!

[Coleus]

.

[LadyDoc]

hmmm...michael O’brien’s site was also take off line by islamic hackers.