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Turkey: Man attempts to burn down Istanbul church, blames Christianity ‘for spread of coronavirus’

May 24, 2020 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

“The individual known by the initials M.K. is said to suffer from mental problems.”

Of course. It is astonishing how often we hear that violent Muslims are suffering from mental problems. It’s striking how comparatively seldom we hear about mentally ill Christians behaving violently toward Muslims. Might there be another factor that makes this kind of “mental illness” more common among Muslims than among others? Could it have something to do with the exhortations to violence against unbelievers in the Qur’an and Sunnah? Or is even simply asking that question “Islamophobic”?

“Man attempts to burn down Istanbul church, blames Christianity ‘for spread of coronavirus,’” Duvar English, May 9, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Istanbul police have detained a man for attempting to burn the entrance door of Dzınunt Surp Asdvadzadzni Armenian Orthodox Church in the Bakırköy district, daily Sözü reported on May 9.

“I burned it because they brought the coronavirus [onto Turkey],” the man was quoted as saying in his testimony to the police.

On May 8, an identified individual set the church’s door on fire. The fire was quickly extinguished and the Bakırköy police initiated an investigation into the incident.

The police found out the identity of the suspect from the security cameras and detained him. The individual known by the initials M.K. is said to suffer from mental problems….

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  1. PRCS says

    May 24, 2020 at 3:58 pm

    Of course, his imam will say he didn’t realize ‘the man’ had been ‘radicalized’ or who ‘radicalized’ him.

  2. Martin says

    May 24, 2020 at 4:10 pm

    Erdogan sent a message for U.S. Muslims on Eid al-Fitr

    • GreekEmpress says

      May 24, 2020 at 6:42 pm

      Martin,
      Thank you for posting the video.
      This man is one of the most dangerous men on the planet.

    • Aunty Podes says

      May 25, 2020 at 6:39 am

      What a clown! These idiots ought to get their thick heads together and decide which song sheet they are wailing from.
      One minute it was Allah who created COVID 19 to kill off infidels and Muslims will be unaffected.
      The next it is an American weapon of war against Muslims.
      Make up your minds, you imbeciles!

    • Giacomo Latta says

      May 25, 2020 at 8:21 am

      ”The individual known by the initials M.K. is said to suffer from mental problems”
      Actually, his initials are R. T. E..

  3. DHazard says

    May 24, 2020 at 4:13 pm

    Which came first, Islam or the mental problems?

    • Aunty Podes says

      May 25, 2020 at 6:31 am

      A rather difficult question to answer …
      Perhaps the madness comes first because you have to be demented to follow the Islamic “way of life” which places the value of death (Including your own) above your very life.
      But then, if you adopt Islam the very irrationality of it will inevitable drive you mad.

  4. elee says

    May 24, 2020 at 4:21 pm

    He suffers from a mental problem afflicting a billion and a quarter halfwits in today’s world. Symptoms include violent behaviours and psychotic delusions.

    • nicu says

      May 24, 2020 at 5:45 pm

      He is Turkish Hitler – looks even like him and he always admired him ! and Merkel pampers him and his Muzzies !

  5. Wellington says

    May 24, 2020 at 4:34 pm

    Does he have a PhD in Islamic Studies?

  6. nicu says

    May 24, 2020 at 5:44 pm

    A man who burnt a door of a mosque here in germany got 8 years ! If Muslims kill us – they get away with it – but still idiot Germans travel to Turkey !

  7. mortimer says

    May 24, 2020 at 7:12 pm

    Of course, the alleged ‘mental illness’ prevalent among Muslims might be related to 50 generations of first-cousin marriages and uncle-niece marriages. However, many recent Anglo-Celtic converts to Islam also acquire the exact same illness. So the ‘mental’ theory doesn’t work.

    Islam is a supremacist ideology that requires its warriors to commit beheadings, tortures, ambushes and persecutions against disbelievers. Yeah, that’s a more likely explanation, isn’t it?

  8. mortimer says

    May 24, 2020 at 7:17 pm

    A number of mullahs have claimed that DIRTY KUFAAR are behind covid-19 and developed it to target Muslims … this is the result.

  9. gravenimage says

    May 24, 2020 at 9:18 pm

    Turkey: Man attempts to burn down Istanbul church, blames Christianity ‘for spread of coronavirus’
    ……………….

    “Mental illness”, huh? Ignore the fact that Erdogan is ginning up hatred against the few surviving Christians and other non-Muslims in Turkey.

  10. Uma Maheswar Nakka says

    May 24, 2020 at 11:16 pm

    How come so many mental among Muslims, something fishy..

  11. Lookmann says

    May 25, 2020 at 1:15 am

    ‘It’s striking how comparatively seldom we hear about mentally ill Christians behaving violently toward Muslims. Might there be another factor that makes this kind of “mental illness” more common among Muslims than among others?’

    They are suffering from ‘ Koran Virus ‘ [ Kovad 700] from 7th century AD.

    Genetically transmitted & boosted by near by ‘mosques’

  12. OLD GUY says

    May 25, 2020 at 11:30 am

    Everything that goes wrong in the world is the Christians fault, what a simple minded approach to the world and what takes place in it. Muslims and Islamic followers need to take a close look at their own house and its many faults before throwing stones. It seems that Islam is really good at stoning people to death for various reasons, along with child rape marriages, Honor killing of women who don’t obey, Rape gangs, and terrorist actions against non-followers.

    Turkey Man must think that China is a Christian nation.

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