Posted on 04/18/2007 11:16:39 AM PDT by Cornpone
Ankara, 18 April (AKI) - Three people on Wednesday died from knife wounds at a publishing house that distributed Bibles in the eastern central Turkish city of Malatya in an attack that appeared aimed at Turkey's tiny Christian minority. Initial reports said that those killed had their throats slit and their hands and legs bound when they were found at the Zirve publishing house. The German Embassy said one victim was German.
"I am shocked that a German citizen is among the victims. Even if the exact circumstances of the crime are not yet known, I most strongly condemn this brutal crime," German Ambassador Eckart Cuntz said in a statement.
Another of the victims was Turkish while the nationality of the third person killed was not immediately clear.
Police detained several suspects, and were investigating whether the man who jumped from the window could have been one of the attackers, according to reports. Police were expected to release information about the attack later Wednesday.
Malatya is the hometown of Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, and is known as a hotbed of radical nationalist politics
According to a report by the Dogan news agecny, the Zirve publishing house has been the site of previous protests by nationalists accusing it of proselytising in Turkey where the population is 99 per cent Muslim.
Christians have been targeted in several attacks in over the last year in Turkey. In February 2006, a Turkish teenager shot an Italian Catholic priest dead as he prayed in his church, and two other Catholic priests were attacked later that year. Earlier this year, a suspected nationalist killed Armenian Christian editor Hrant Dink.
A visit last November by Pope Benedict XVI prompted several protests but no violence.
Sounds like a familiar MO to me.
Surely you’re not suggesting that the Religion of Peace had something to do with it?
Instant Jihad Syndrome. God forbid anyone should criticize a muslim.
Nah, nothing like that./sarc
If this story was about a koran found with bacon bits in it, it would be front page news. But it’s only three Christians so it’s no big deal.
This is just the Islamic culture of murder, not the gun culture of America. Nothing to see here, move along....
Islam is a religion of peace. How do I know this is true? George W. Bush told me so.
There is a serious "passion gap" between the West and Islam, to go with the tremendous variance in birth rate. Together, they spell big trouble for us.
The bottom line is that the West is giving up its crucial geographical "Zones of Dominance" while our enemies and likely enemies (Islamists, Mexicans, Chinese, etc.) are retaining theirs.
The Turks have a long and varied history of murdering Christians and trying to crush Christianity. Much to their credit, the Bosnian Serbs never forgot the Turkish Muslim occupation of their country. Too bad NATO and the U.S. stomped on Serbia for trying to expel the remaining invaders.
Great post! You hit a home run! Your insights need to be repeated until people wake up to reality.
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