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Monday, February 06, 2006

This is a Martyr

Via Mark Krikorian at The Corner:

Washington Post: Catholic Priest Shot to Death in Turkey---

ANKARA, Turkey -- A teenage boy shot and killed the Italian Roman Catholic priest of a church in the Black Sea port city of Trabzon on Sunday, shouting "God is great" as he escaped, according to police and witnesses.
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The police official would not say if the attack might be linked to the printing in European newspapers of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, which has caused anger in Muslim countries. Earlier Sunday, hundreds of Turks protested in Istanbul against the cartoons.

"Whether the killing is linked to the caricatures will emerge when the culprit has been caught," Trabzon's Gov. Huseyin Yavuzdemir said.

The priest, 60-year-old Andrea Santoro, was shot hours after Mass at Santa Maria Church.

A woman who answered the telephone at the church said the priest was inside when he was attacked, and prosecutor Burhan Cobanoglu said he was shot twice from behind, with bullets ripping through his heart and liver.

Pope Benedict XVI's envoy in Turkey, Monsignor Antonio Lucibello, said he had spoken by telephone with a witness who said she saw the attacker fleeing and "heard the young man shout 'Allah Akbar' (God is Great).'"

Lucibello declined to speculate on the motive for the killing, but said there were "no elements" to link the attack with the protests over the newspaper cartoons.
Father Andrea Santoro is a martyr. He was murdered for his Faith.

Cowardly men who blow themselves, and innocents others, up are not martyrs. They are wicked, pathetic "men," who aren't brave enough to live life and allow others freedom.

This is how a martyr dies, not by wearing a dynamite vest or hijacking a plane full of innocent victims and plowing it into a building.

Father Andrea Santoro is a martyr. He was murdered for his Faith. He didn't kill anyone for it. There is a huge difference.