Posted on 06/07/2010 2:13:11 PM PDT by NoLibZone
ROME — A Roman Catholic bishop was stabbed to death in eastern Turkey on Thursday, a day before he had planned to travel to Cyprus for the visit of Pope Benedict XVI.
The bishop, Luigi Padovese, 62, the apostolic vicar of Anatolia, or the Vatican’s representative to eastern Turkey, was found dead outside his home in the Mediterranean port of Iskenderun, officials said. The police arrested his driver, who officials said had psychological problems.
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Well, yes. He was a muslim.
Or maybe more to the point, muslims knew where he and his family live.
Obama didn’t cause Turkey’s slide into radical Islam, it was starting long before Obama came along.
It’s just the spirit of antichrist.. doin’ his thang.
True. But 0bama's influence has been making it slide faster.
Or is it the other way'round?
I hate it when I get stabbed in my turkey.
Maybe both. I suspect he felt like he needed to prove himself to Allah, or to his muslim neighbors. Or, maybe someone paid him a visit and demanded he prove himself to Allah and his muslim neighbors. Don't know. I wonder.
I thought it was FreeRep posting policy that when posting a link to a published article, one is not supposed to make up their own title for the article?
As much as I can blame Obama for many things, your self-chosen title on this story smacks of a mere reversal of the “blame Bush” mental syndrome.
Moderators?
Are you sure this wasn’t another one of those Amish assassins?
I have to agree with this, unfortunately.
The fall of Turkey didn’t start in January of 2009 but BO’s horrific handling of foregin policy is making a bad situation more dangerous.
Liberal 'officials' in Turkey too? The mental disease is worldwide.
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