In the same city that was the site of the first attack. "Capuchin Priest Attacked in Turkey," from Zenit, with thanks to Tara:
ANKARA, Turkey, MARCH 12, 2006 (Zenit.org).- For the second time in the last two months a priest in the southern Turkish city of Mersin has been attacked.Early Saturday evening a young man with a knife entered the parish of Capuchin Father Hanri Leylek, saying that he wanted to speak with a priest.
Aid to the Church in Need told ZENIT that young Turk insulted the priest and then threatened him with an 80-centimeter (31-inch) Kebab knife.
The priest was able to repel the aggressor, and that same evening the police arrested a suspect, a young Turk.
Bishop Luigi Padovese, the apostolic vicar of Anatolia, reported that this was the second time, in the last two months, that an attempt was made to kill a Catholic clergyman in the parish of Mersin, where 700 Catholics reside.
I'm very thankful that the priest is okay, and hope that none of his community come to harm.
Now perhaps if Turkey's Muslims worked against the spreading of anti-Christian and anti-Jewish hate....
I've sent this to my friend at the UN in Brussels so that he can bring it up the next time Turkey protests that they should be a part of the EU. No way José! Or rather, No way Akhbar!
The Muslim Cofraternities strike again.
Naseen and friends have to do their part and LIE for Islam. It shouldn't suprise you. They are brainwashed to "think" the way they do. It's not really thinking, but merely repeating what they've been told. It's all they were taught, to repeat, chant, and chant some more until they pass out and feel "carried away" by Allah. They've been brainwashed this way from early childhood.
Read Peter Balakian's "The Burning Tigris." Balakian does an excellent job pinpointing the varied causes of the Armenian tragedy. The ulema (religious leadership) lent its support to the most monstrous examples of depravity in recorded history.
If I'm reading this correctly, that would make three attacks, of which one was fatal. The recent killing of a Catholic priest in Turkey occurred in or near Trabzon, in the north, along the Black Sea coast. This article refers to the attacks on two priests in Mersin, in the south, along the Mediterranean.
My grandfather lived through the Hamid Massacres of Armenians in the late 1800's (was 96 when he died in 1986). He witnessed the killing of an Armenian priest who had been tied to a tree and burnt alive on the grounds of his parish. The Mohammedans were killing Christian Armenians in Turkey for a long time. The genocide began in earnest in 1915, leaving 1.5 million Armenians dead. As the previous post notes religious leaders leant their support to the butchery. Turkish citizens have been taught that these events never happened. Only recently, fears of Turkish entry into the EU have sparked interest in the Genocide. Germany, an ally of Turkey at the time, now recognizes the events of 1915 and has admonished the Turkish government to acknowledge the atrocity. Other EU countries have formally recognized the Armenian massacres as genocidal in their scope.
These recent sad events are inevitable.
The Turkish government not only does NOT admit that the genocide happened, it insists that the Armenians attacked the Turks and brought the disaster upon themselves. Here we have an interesting case of Orwellian Newspeak which one often witnesses among Muslims and Arabs in particular: "The carnage never happened; but the victims brought it upon themselves." Interesting.
When I have spoken about this with Turks, they
have insisted that the Armenians commited atrocities against the Turks. This did in fact happen, BUT ONLY after 1.5 million Armenians had perished and ONLY as part of self-defense actions carried on when forces of the Turkish Republic invaded the newly proclaimed Republic of Armenia, which existed roughly only on the territory of the present country of Armenia. The Turks had already extinguished the entire populations of the six large Armenian majority "villaayets" of what is presently Turkey.
The newly born Turkish republic actually tried the main characters behind the atrocities; but then the outcome was covered up and the official policy became "It did not happen, and if it did happen, the Armenians did it." Sound familiar?
What followed has been eighty-plus years of denial and active persecution of anyone trying to change the official line. The Turkish government has gone as far as passing "defamation of Turkish identity" laws that make any mention of this illegal. Ankara has gone so far as to use its leverage in Washington to shut down a Hollywood production of German Jew Franz Werfel's "Forty Days of Musa Dagh."
France was able to ignore Turkish threats and commemorate the crime in special announcements and observances; but our own government has not.
I'm not Armenian. But I went to school with a bunch in Chicago. My question is how on g-d's green earth can the Turks deny this? How is it possible? Denial of The Shoah's grim reaping in Europe is denied, but I wonder about the folks who deny? They know denial is bs, but they do it to flaim passions, deligitimize Israel, ect . . . but how can these mf'ers deny this. 1.5 million dead Armenians. Judging the few that I knew, I'm sure they were the cream of the Turkish society . . . doctors, artisans ect. I've recently read an account of the Armenian slaughter by a wonderful writer with the last name of Baghdadsarian. How can it be a f$%@ing question to be admitted to the EU? First join the freaking human race; then worry about the EU. Sheesh, what a joke. Then the leader's wife goes to an antismetic film about US atrocities in Iraq? Hey, ok, a few GI's with screw loose badger and mistreat a few Iraqis! How about 1.5 million dead Armenians? With their heads cut off? I've got an idea how Bush could redeem himself. How about a screening of that Armenian film Aarat? He can say how moved he was about the treatment of the Armenian dhimmas and how the plight of the infedal moved him so.
Don't worry. Once those new Young Turks, not the old-style Young Turks, but this time the Reformers of Islam rather than of the shaky governors in Dolmabahce Palace, have their way --such as Mustafa Akyol, with his business of throwing out the Hadith and Sira (yes, that should be easy to do), leaving only the kinder, gentler Qur'an as "sola scriptura" (how he loves that phrase), then Infidels won't have to worry. Not even those priests in rural Turkey. Not at all. It will be roses, roses, roses, all the way. In all the pashaliks of Turkey, all the khanates of Persia. One uninterrupted Gulistan. And the bulbuls will sing without stopping, and all things shall be well, all manner of things shall be well.
That priest must have done something to incite that poor, poor Turk. Like maybe preaching about love and forgiveness. Shame on him.
To demonstrate their distance from Islam, the Young Turks originally placed Ataturk's coffin turned away from Mecca. Nowadays, however, the republic's founder's coffin has been turned 180 degrees to FACE Mecca. Ataturk would be rolling in his grave to know that his keepers have changed his "kible." This is the way it is with the myths we create to justify how we want perceptions to change.