Possible link of the cartoon rage with a murder of a priest in Turkey

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This is a story i heard on the news on tv here. I tried looking for it online, on an english source, but couldnt, so i will post the link to a cypriot online mag (i couldnt find it anywhere else, however it was also on state tv in Greece) and the piece about it there, and then translate it:


Link:
http://www.typos.com.cy/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=59473

The story, in greek: ---Συνελήφθη ο ύποπτος της δολοφονίας του ιερέα ---

Έναν 16χρονο που θεωρείται ύποπτος για τη δολοφονία του 60χρονου ιταλού καθολικού ιερέα Αντρέα Σαντόρο στην Τραπεζούντα συνέλαβε η τουρκική αστυνομία. Η αστυνομία εντόπισε και συνέλαβε τον ύποπτο με τη βοήθεια βιντεοταινίας από κάμερα ασφαλείας καταστήματος, που βρισκόταν δίπλα από την εκκλησία όπου έγινε το έγκλημα.

Ο 16χρονος θα οδηγηθεί ενώπιον της δικαιοσύνης ενώ άγνωστο παραμένει αν η δολοφονία του ιερέα συνδέεται με τις εκδηλώσεις διαμαρτυρίας στον μουσουλμανικό κόσμο για τα σκίτσα του Μωάμεθ.

My translation:

--- The suspect of the murder of the priest has been arrested ---

A 16yearold who is considered a suspect for the murder of the 60year old italian catholic priest Andrea Santoro, in Trebizond, was arrested by the turkish police. The police found and arrested the suspect with the help of the footage from a security camera in a store, which was next to the church where the murder took place.

The 16year old will be brought to justice, while it remains unknown whther the murder of the priest is linked with the mass protests in the muslim worlds against the cartoons of Mohammad.

(end of the translation)

On the news it was also mentioned that the 16year old claims that indeed the murder (which he confessed doing) was triggered by the anti-islamic cartoons.
Ofcourse this may not be the real reason for it, however that was his own claim.
 
After some more searches i managed to find also an english webpage with the story:

http://watch.windsofchange.net/

"Teenager arrested over priest murder in Turkey" (Sibel Utku Bila, AFP/Middle East Times, 2006/02/07)
The Danish cartoon affair IX: "ANKARA -- A teenage boy was arrested on Tuesday in Trabzon for the weekend murder of a Catholic priest that coincided with anger in the Muslim world over the publication in Europe of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
"The 16-year-old is in police custody and is talking about what he did," said Burhan Cobanoglu, chief prosecutor of Trabzon, on Turkey's Black Sea coast, the Anatolia news agency reported.
Police seized a 9 mm pistol from the high school student when they captured him in a pre-dawn raid on a house in the city center, he said.
The NTV news channel reported the boy telling police that he killed the priest because he was angered by the cartoons of Mohammed published in European newspapers, but no official confirmation was available.
Andrea Santoro, a 61-year-old Italian priest, was shot dead on Sunday while praying in the Santa Maria Catholic Church in the northern city.
The gunman fired two shots and shouted "Allahu Akhbar" or "God Is Great" according to witnesses." (See also: "Catholic priest shot dead in church in Turkey" (Reuters, 2006/02/05))
 
Read about it in the papers. very sad. 2 lives gone because of this. The priest and the killer kid. He probably saw the cartoon publication as some kind of "Christianity/West against Islam" thing and the priest (probably in his priestly robe), represented that image to him.
 
Until the Muslims learned to value human life, they are not to be treated like humans.
 
That's generalising it. Murders happen all over the world for any number of reasons by people all over the world, regardless of religious faith. As a catholic, I was naturally sad when i read a priest got murdered, but i know i can't blame anyone else but the kid for it. Like I wrote earlier, i feel sad for the kid too, wasting his own life like that. 16yrs old, probably very immature, uneducated and very ignorant.
 
Imaginos said:
Read about it in the papers. very sad. 2 lives gone because of this. The priest and the killer kid. He probably saw the cartoon publication as some kind of "Christianity/West against Islam" thing and the priest (probably in his priestly robe), represented that image to him.
Certanly I fear that the 11th crusade is comming up :eek:.

Imaginos said:
As a catholic, I was naturally sad when i read a priest got murdered, but i know i can't blame anyone else but the kid for it. Like I wrote earlier, i feel sad for the kid too, wasting his own life like that. 16yrs old, probably very immature, uneducated and very ignorant.
I agree. I feel that the kid wasted his life on taking another person's life
 
There were 9 then? i thought there were only 4?
Anyway, thats irrational "world going to end soon" fear-mongering. The crusades occured were the Pope and Catholic european kingdoms declaring war on the muslims. I don't see that happening anytime soon. :)
 
Riesstiu IV said:
Did I miss something? When did Crusades numbers 10 - 12 occur?
Ment to say 11th Crusade. The 10th Crusade is in referance to the US war on terrorism. Wiki Entry
 
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