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| 2005-07-15 |
| From Compass Direct A Protestant pastor in the Turkish industrial city of Izmit woke up yesterday morning to find a huge red swastika painted on his apartment door, with a handwritten hate letter shoved underneath. In high-school-level Turkish, the writer threatened the safety of Wolfgang Hade and his family unless they left the country within a month. A German citizen, Hade is married to a Turkish national of Christian background. The hate letter questioned whether Hade was really serving Christianity or being âusedâ to attack Turkish values. .... Together with his wife and small daughter, Hade has lived for the past three and one-half years in Izmit, near the epicenter of Turkeyâs disastrous 1999 earthquake in western Turkey. Their small congregation of 15 to 20 Turkish Protestants worship in a two-story building purchased through the foundation of their parent church in Istanbul. The Izmit Protestant Church was targeted in a violent attack the night after Christmas last year, when someone started a fire next to the outside wall of the building. .... The string of Izmit attacks are not isolated cases. Over the past six months, vigilante groups in at least four other Turkish cities have also threatened Protestant church workers and attacked their places of worship. Simultaneously, the Turkish media has fanned intense criticism of Christian missionary activity. Even government ministers have spoken out, claiming that foreign missionaries had political motives aimed at âdamaging the social peace and unity of Turkey.â .... |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #8 Mike Sylwester never proposes answers, only critiques otehrs and throws rhetorical questions. Nothing to add, never has, never will. My answer is that if Turkey wants to stay in NATO, have a whisper of hope in joining the EU or whatever, they need to crack down on this shit. Otherwise - they can recede back to the 7th century |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-07-15 22:30 |
| #7 Pappy: Re. double posts: I have only been clicking once on the Submit button. This happened when I borrowed an Apple computer (AKA: piece of junk). Sorry for the annoyance. |
| Posted by: Vlad the Muslim Impaler 2005-07-15 21:40 |
| #6 Inflicting $10,000 in damages, the Molotov cocktails heaved into the church could have burned the entire church down if one of the fire bombs had not run out of fuel, said officials who described the attack as âamateurish.â "Yes, yes, true mooselimbs know how to throw and fuel their Molotov Cocktails. These amateur jihadis are to in no way reflect the fine acts of murder by real jihadis" the officials added. |
| Posted by: BA 2005-07-15 14:06 |
| #5 Care for some "sassier" muslim turks (don't have many from other faiths in stock at the moment ... wonder why that is) seething with traditional religious hate with your EU anybody? |
| Posted by: Tkat 2005-07-15 08:58 |
| #4 No proselytizing allowed, Joseph. And the "People of the Book" (Jews and Christians) have to pay extra taxes, are legally inferior to Muslims, and orphaned children are to be taken to be reared as Muslims. I'm pretty sure that isn't the case in Turkey, but it certainly still is in Jordan, where a couple of recent cases have been reported here at Rantburg. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-07-15 08:00 |
| #3 What do you suggest? That you figure a way to stop multiple posts? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2005-07-15 01:47 |
| #2 Okay, don't numerous Western books andor Muslim Activists like to make the point that as long as non-Muslims pay certain fees to the local Muslim authorities/govts., the non-Muslims will be left alone, with limited acts of proselytizing tolerated or allowed!? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2005-07-15 01:32 |
| #1 As we open our arms and wallets to Muslim vermin, Christians (and Hindus and Buddhists, etc) are being ethnically cleansed from the Muslim tyrannies. What do you suggest? |
| Posted by: Vlad the Muslim Impaler 2005-07-15 01:30 |