Priest shot by Muslim cartoon protester

[tocqueville]

Thousands Pay Respects to Slain Priest 1 hour, 51 minutes ago

ROME - Thousands of mourners filed past the coffin of an Italian priest shot to death in Turkey, allegedly by a Muslim teenager angered by the Prophet Muhammad drawings.

As many as 10,000 people paid their last respects Thursday to Rev. Andrea Santoro, whose body lay in the Rome church of Santi Fabiano e Venanzio where he once worked. His funeral was to be held Friday in Rome's main basilica, St. John Lateran.

Santoro, 60, was shot twice in the back Sunday while praying in his church on the Black Sea coast. Witnesses say the killer screamed "Allahu Akbar," Arabic for "God is great."

The shooting shocked Italians, coming amid widespread protests against the caricatures of Muhammad, the central figure in the Muslim faith

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060210/ap_on_re_eu/italy_priest_killed

[Oversea Visitor]

1. Hatred so easy to spread

Love so hard to build
Trust, respect all damn hard to earn

Hatred wins again and again
So damn sad
All mighty big fool
Puppets on string control by hatred.
What is right and what is wrong
All argue talk big time FReedom Liberty blah blah
Hatred Ugly head very big
Him big winner.

Fine fine freedom of press
Damn shit now even man of god get kill
What use is freedom when all we get is hate from it.
Lets all have some respect for the power of the pen
And its enormous capacity to do good or evil
And to allow that enormous capacity to run riot is a danger to our society.
It can inflame and shatter this precious peace of our life.
How many people death for all this.
The fact is how was this freedom use.
Was it with evil intention or good.
Or was it just a work of mentally retarded people who do not realise that it can do untold damage.

[Ecumenist]

2. Oh my God

I have to wonder what's really behind the spread of these cartoons. It's just seems a bit too contrived and something other than a natural progression of these things is keeping the flames fanned. I was listening to a radio show the other day and heard that apparently there were text messages sent out all over the region. A wee bit too convenient, starting to smell more and more like a Psyops.

[Karenina]

3. It's been STINKING like Psyops

from the git go.

[newyawker99]

8. Hi Ecumenist!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[EFerrari]

4. I've been concerned for a long time that Cheney would

set the world on fire when he had nothing left to lose. And, I'm not sure we haven't reached that point.

[Hubert Flottz]

5. "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."

For it is writt...

Newton's Third Law

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/newtlaws/u2l4a.html

I'll try and put Newton's Third Law, in SIMPLE terms, that even a Freeper Moran, can understand...

"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." = "Don't start any shit and there won't be any shit."

[FreedomAngel82]

6. This is really getting out of hand

:( RIP.

[Cobalt Violet]

7. The stunning overwhelming peacefulness.

Words just do the peacefulness justice.

:sarcasm: