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Here's news to brighten a progressives day. Can anyone believe that the "coup" was not staged?
TURKEY'S BACKLASH: Christians pay price as extreme Islam surges after attempted coup
A year earlier Father Andrea Santoro, a 61-year-old Roman Catholic priest, was murdered in the Santa Maria Church. Father Santoro was shot from behind while kneeling in prayer in the church. Witnesses heard the murderer, aged 16, shouting “Allahu Akbar”.
Turkey, which once boasted two million Christians, has barely 120,000 now, fewer even than Iran. But what shocked people most about July 15’s attacks was how much hatred still remains after almost 10 years.
Though it is nominally a secular republic there can be little doubt that the government and Turkey’s 117,000 Sunni imams work together.
Since the night of the failed coup, imams have been chanting the Selah prayer, usually reserved to announce a death, on a daily basis as a rally call.
TURKEY'S BACKLASH: Christians pay price as extreme Islam surges after attempted coup
A year earlier Father Andrea Santoro, a 61-year-old Roman Catholic priest, was murdered in the Santa Maria Church. Father Santoro was shot from behind while kneeling in prayer in the church. Witnesses heard the murderer, aged 16, shouting “Allahu Akbar”.
Turkey, which once boasted two million Christians, has barely 120,000 now, fewer even than Iran. But what shocked people most about July 15’s attacks was how much hatred still remains after almost 10 years.
Though it is nominally a secular republic there can be little doubt that the government and Turkey’s 117,000 Sunni imams work together.
Since the night of the failed coup, imams have been chanting the Selah prayer, usually reserved to announce a death, on a daily basis as a rally call.
