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lady luck said:No, it's not unexpected... but still it hurts.
The Turkish police found the young murderer, and he said he did it because of the cartoon.
What a nutjob.
lady luck said:No, it's not unexpected... but still it hurts.
The Turkish police found the young murderer, and he said he did it because of the cartoon.
Harry Vest said:Great point. On another matter - where is all the Muslim "outrage" at suicide bombers that target innocent people????
bcrt2000 said:2) Most people still have respect for Jesus
Keep in mind that there are 1.4 billion Muslims in the world, and most of the thousands of protests which have taken place have been completely peaceful. It's the ugly stuff which makes the news. That doesn't mean peaceful protesters aren't also angry and offended, or that they don't also suspect that this is all part of a larger plan by Western powers to retain military and political dominance and control over the rest of the world. Much of this anger has a lot more to do with the latter than with reverence for Muhammad. That's an added insult, and one which provides a convenient focus for feelings of righteous indignation.fly so high! said:I hate to admit it! But i'm i think i am becoming "Islamaphobic", not to the point where i want to run off and cause destruction and death, but i'm very,very wary!
But so is God's. And generally speaking, I'm inclined to hear that as a thoroughly decontextualized, casual, non-religiously-loaded way of emphasizing the feelings underlying the profanity. Though I don't do it myself.Originally posted by nbcrusader
Even though His name is used as an explitive on a daily basis....
Priest hit 'ordered over web'
09/02/2006
South Africa News 24
ANKARA - The teenage suspect being held for allegedly shooting an Italian Roman Catholic priest in Turkey received orders to kill him through an internet webcam, the suspect's father said, according to the leading Hurriyet newspaper on Thursday.
The suspect's father, Hikmet, was quoted by the paper as saying that his 16-year-old son was excited and nervous on Sunday night, hours after he allegedly killed Santoro. "Look at television, the priest was shot," Hikmet quoted his son as saying in an interview with Hurriyet.
The father became suspicious and pressed his son about why the priest might have been killed. Finally, the boy said: "I shot him. If I did not shoot him, they would shoot you," the father quoted his son as saying. "He did not reveal the details, he just said he was told by someone through a webcam," Hikmet said.
The paper did not provide the father's surname to protect the suspect, who is a minor. Neither the father nor the boy's lawyer was immediately available for comment.
The semiofficial Anatolia news agency reported that the boy was scheduled to appear in court on Thursday where he will likely be arraigned.
posted by a-mole
And it does not matter whether we do not get offended by christian cartoons. People have different opinions on what is important or not all the time, and it is common knowledge that there are indeed many people who are VERY sensitive about their prophets (and religion in general). So why not just NOT provoke... for once.
melon said:Had the tides turned in a different direction at the turn of the last millennium, imagery of important Christian figures might have been taboo too. But, thankfully, the Byzantine Empire was just kind of a long-running joke in its last centuries before oblivion, and the Catholic Church turned into a patron of the arts in the Middle Ages.
Last, but not least, thankfully Reformation-era fanatics ultimately lost in the long run:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconoclasm
Melon