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Turkish Catholic leader beheaded
news24.com ^ | June 8, 2010

Posted on 06/11/2010 8:51:32 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Rome - The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Turkey, killed last week by his driver, was decapitated in a "ritual Muslim sacrifice," the head of a missionary news agency said on Tuesday.

After the murder of Luigi Padovese, the driver reportedly shouted from the roof of the victim's house that he had killed the "great Satan," adding Allah akbar ("God Is Great"), a Turkish journalist told AsiaNews.

The news agency for overseas missionaries said Padovese "was stabbed in his home, and managed to leave his home to ask for help," AsiaNews director Bernardo Cervellera told Italy's Sky TG24 all-news television channel.

Vatican spokesperson Federico Lombardi, contacted by the religious news agency I-media, said he was awaiting clarification of the reports but would neither deny nor confirm them.

Turkish news reports said the 26-year-old alleged killer, Murat Altun, had been released from a psychiatric ward a few days before the murder.

He told police he had had a "divine revelation," the reports said.

Local authorities have ruled out a political motive in the killing, and Altun's lawyer and mother both said he had psychological problems.

The 63-year-old Italian bishop, Vicar Apostolic of Anatolia since 2004, was killed at his summer house in a Mediterranean seaside town near Iskenderun, close to the Syrian border in southern Turkey.

Pope Benedict XVI said shortly after the murder that it was "certainly not a political or religious murder but rather a personal affair".


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KEYWORDS: beheading; murataltun; padovese; suddenjihadsyndrome
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1 posted on 06/11/2010 8:51:32 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

......and the Mayor and City Fathers are going to allow a Mosque to be built where?


2 posted on 06/11/2010 8:54:57 AM PDT by yoe (The "N" word stands for NO...as in NO MORE VOTES FOR IRRESPONSIBLE CONGRESSMEN OR SENATORS.The new)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The religion of peace. How long until Americans who are also known as “The Great Satan” start being beheaded?


3 posted on 06/11/2010 8:56:22 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective

Not too long say about 5 to 10 years.


4 posted on 06/11/2010 8:58:04 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: detective
The religion of peace. How long until Americans who are also known as “The Great Satan” start being beheaded? <.i>

Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was an American journalist who was kidnapped and murdered by Militant Islamic terrorists. At the time of his kidnapping, Pearl served as the South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, and was based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He went to Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between Richard Reid (the "shoe bomber") and Al-Qaeda. He was subsequently beheaded by his captors.

5 posted on 06/11/2010 8:59:47 AM PDT by RedMDer (Throw them all out in 2010... Forward with Confidence! Forward!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

What spirtual war?

Pray for America


6 posted on 06/11/2010 9:03:45 AM PDT by bray (Throw the Bums out starting w/McCain)
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To: bray

You know, there’s a world wide need for parking lots.

Too, we need to do strategic weapons integration tests...


7 posted on 06/11/2010 9:07:43 AM PDT by benewton (Life sucks, then you die)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"Pope Benedict XVI said shortly after the murder that it was "certainly not a political or religious murder but rather a personal affair".

How foolish.

8 posted on 06/11/2010 9:08:39 AM PDT by americanophile (November can't come fast enough....)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
A few gems from "The Religion of Pieces"

Sura (4:76) - "Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah…"

Sura (5:33) - "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement"

Sura (8:12) - "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them"

Sura (8:39) - "And fight with them until there is no more persecution and religion should be only for Allah"

9 posted on 06/11/2010 9:08:53 AM PDT by FatherofFive (0bama is dangerous and must be stopped.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Moslems are unfit fof civilization, or civilized exchanges.

What a few dupes call ‘good’ Muslims, real Muslims call heretics.

A vile cult.

The last large human sacrifice cult.


10 posted on 06/11/2010 9:12:55 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Let me be clear. The voluntary pancipation of Cinco de Quatro is mandated in all 57 states.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Allah (aka Satan) demanded another bloody sacrifice. It should be clear to anyone that this is a bloody satanic death cult.


11 posted on 06/11/2010 9:13:35 AM PDT by crusadersoldier
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To: americanophile

“Pope Benedict XVI said shortly after the murder that it was “certainly not a political or religious murder but rather a personal affair”.

How foolish.

___________________

‘Fool’ was my initial thought as well.


12 posted on 06/11/2010 9:14:35 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Let me be clear. The voluntary pancipation of Cinco de Quatro is mandated in all 57 states.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Notice.... no screeching protests in the streets to condemn this.


13 posted on 06/11/2010 9:14:43 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: detective
The religion of peace. How long until Americans who are also known as “The Great Satan” start being beheaded?

If the mosque does get built, I'd love to see NYC get one of these studies done, with an emphasis on beheadings:
San Francisco Crime, Mapped in 3-D

14 posted on 06/11/2010 9:16:17 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (....just doing the job(s) that Catholics refuse to do....)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Ummmm, the Pope chooses not to make a big deal of this?

But he does choose to expound on our healthcare legislation, immigration policy, our war with the Islamics, Israel's war with the Islamics.....

Things are becoming very clear, which is a good thing in the end.

It is good to know whom you can count on in a battle.

15 posted on 06/11/2010 9:22:06 AM PDT by roses of sharon (I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Where do they find these journalists? That’s one really misleading headline!


16 posted on 06/11/2010 9:28:30 AM PDT by MayfairFly ("Your total ignorance of that which you profess to teach merits the death penalty.")
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To: americanophile

Yep. When I read that, pardon me but I thought “WTF?”. The Pope shouldn’t have said anything at all instead of making such an obvious politically correct comment. What ever happened to calling a spade a spade? It’s obvious this was an act of jihad or whatever BS these people believe in.


17 posted on 06/11/2010 9:31:04 AM PDT by surroundedbyblue
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To: RedMDer
I knew about Daniel Pearl. I was thinking about Americans being beheaded by Muslims within the United States. The murders by Major Hasan were clearly a terrorist act and a Muslim Ritual killing. I am thinking it will not be long until other Soldiers of Allah begin killing Americans in the U.S.
18 posted on 06/11/2010 9:31:32 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective
I am thinking it will not be long until other Soldiers of Allah begin killing Americans in the U.S.

It will happen. Will DoD wake up then?

19 posted on 06/11/2010 9:35:02 AM PDT by RedMDer (Throw them all out in 2010... Forward with Confidence! Forward!)
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