The cover of "The Plot to Kill The Pope"
Posted on 11/24/2006 7:30:34 AM PST by presidio9
Sales of a controversial Turkish novel on a conspiracy to kill Pope Benedict XVI are on the rise ahead of the pontiff's historical visit to Turkey beginning next Wednesday - his first to an overwhelmingly Muslim nation. 'The Plot Against The Pope' is a highly speculative potboiler narrating how the conservative Roman Catholic society Opus Dei, a subversive masonic lodge and the CIA collude to make the pontiff's murder a pretext for a US attack against Iran.
Yuvel Kaya's book, which features Benedict XVI in front of a burning cross with a bearded gunman aiming a rocket launcher at him, is on sale at major Turkish bookstores such as D&R, Kabalci, Pandora.
Despite the absence of any promotional campaign - no billboards, posters or pamphlets at bookstores - sales are rapidly picking up, according to Lale Yilmaz from Kabalci, one the country's biggest book stores. However she told Adnkronos International (AKI) exact sales figures could not be released to the public.
"More copies of the book have been bought over the last 10 days than any other time," Zeynep Yaman an employee with Alfa Dagitim, one of the six companies distributing the books, told AKI.
To date some 10,000 copies of the book have been sold, a relatively modest figure by some international standards but for Turkey, "in its category, more than average," Yaman said.
The book, despite it fictional content, adds further unease to Benedcit XVI's visit to Turkey which comes just two months after a speech by the pontiff on Regensburg, Germany angered many in the Muslim world.
On Wednesday police used tear-gas to break up a protest against Benedict XVI by a group of ultra-nationalist Turks in Istanbul's symbolic Hagia Sophia. An ancient Eastern Orthodox Church, the Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque by the Ottoman Turks after they conquered Constantinople. In 1935 the building was turned into a museum but remains a focal point of sectarian rivalry in Turkey.
In February a Muslim teenage boy shot dead an Italian Roman Catholic priest in the northern city of Trabzon. The killing which appeared to be religiously motivated took place at the height of worldwide protests by Muslims againt cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed published in European newspapers.
The cover of "The Plot to Kill The Pope"
Butttttt, Islam is a PIECEFUL religion!
Here we see a further example of how Dan Brown's idiotic soccer mom soap opera was dangerous in its own way: Only one of its readers would possibly think to include Opus Dei in an assassination plot.
Unbelievable post. Thanks.
Say a prayer for him today. I am sure that you are aware of this, but the real purpose of Pope Benedict XVI's visit is not an outreach to Islam on the part of the Catholic Church. He is there to confer with Eastern Catholic Patriarch Bartholomew, whose Seat is in Istanbul.
Further clarification: The idea that the Pope was going to Turkey to build bridges with Islam is a construct of the clown car media. He's not visiting a Muslim nation for novelty's sake.
Turkey's existence explains the existence of nuclear wesapons
Opus Dei and the CIA??? Ha ha ha. That's too funny. This Pope will be safe. Fear not.
I bet you had no idea that Opus Dei and the CIA were chock full of Islamofacists.
Looks like the real battle in the world today is between non-violent ideologies (most religions) and violent, hate-filled, murderous killing ideologies (you know which one).
I wish President Bush understood what a moron he looks like every time he tries to pimp Islam as a peaceful loving religion on us.
It is neither peaceful nor loving nor a religion.
It is a death cult of hypocrisy.
The Pope has a free hand to be brutally honest about all subjects, because he is not running for anything. Politicians do not have that luxery.
All the more reason to expose mohamMAD and allah for what they are... Murderous, pedophilliac sons of satan.
And the pope never misses a chance to use that free hand either...as a life long Catholic...I have seen the church become more and more liberal and the anti-war trape is enough to make me feel like I have e-coli every Sunday morning.
Why? It's a work of fiction.
Is Opus Dei above reproach?
Vince Flynn wrote a book in which the bad guy was the POTUS!
Hold on just a second: This Pope is as anti-war as the last one. As a matter of fact, I'd be very comfortable with a Pope who didn't preach seeking every single alternative to war. The mistake that a lot of people make around here, especially non-Catholics, is mistaking adherence to Christ's directive of pasificism with the support of UBL or other terrorists.
We did what needed to be done, and are content to let God sort it out, but I don't believe that Christ would have ever directed us to go kill terrorists, and therefore the Pope shouldn't do it either. He doesn't waste a lot of breath these days saying "I told you not to do it."
Why don't you tell me how little you really know about Opus Dei, and I'll tell you why it's laughable to think that they'd be involved. BTW, I'm a lapsed member.
In any case, my point was really that nobody would even be familiar enough with them to include them in the plot unless they had read the book. And, of course narrow-minded muslims who read it would ignore the fact that it is fiction and in fact believe that it was mostly true. These are the same people who deny the Holocaust, after all.
It's just where I stand today. I have grown up a Catholic and still attend...however I really see where I differ with just about every issue they seem to stand in the public square other than Abortion and God being more involved in people's lives every day.
Example, when I heard the Pope say executing Saddam is wrong and shouldn't be done...is just insane to me. I have to look around once in a while at just who I am standing with and wonder...am I on the right team in God's church here? Because I really do subscribe to the eye for an eye concept.
Knowing what the Vatican turned their heads to in WW2 and what was happening with Jews..I mean there is only so much one can take hearing in the way of excuses and theology.
Don't get me wrong..I will never leave the church..EVER..however..I do not agree with a good 40-50% of what its spokespeople say.
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