Showing posts with label Conspiracy theories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conspiracy theories. Show all posts

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Ismet Recber, who "hates Jews", accused of plot to kill Patriarch Bartholomew I, global head of Orthodox Christians, & Jewish rabbis (linked to an alleged secularist plotter against Turkish Islamist governement)

Recber, a carpenter, resident of the eastern city of Kars, was arrested ... last June.

[The Anatolia news agency] says [he] was arrested after an anonymous letter was sent to authorities claiming that a suspect in a separate trial [involving an alleged secularist plot to bring down the Islam-oriented government] had chosen Recber to carry out the killings.



Source: AP with contribution from AFP and published at the Jerusalem Post web site.



Comments: Alleged secularist conspiracy against Islamists involved here in Turkey. Usually secularists, especially those in the West, are on the same side with the Islamists in trying to ban and erase any public signs of Christianity.

This must be one of the conspiracies the Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan, who also allegedly "hates" Jews, is scared of. Two Jew haters fighting each other, like the Sunnis and Shiites.



Some previous similar or related stories:

US House of Representatives may vote to recognize Armenian genocide – up to 1.5 million Christian Armenians killed by Muslim Ottoman Turks around World War One [Turkey denies the genocide]

Turkey hands back orphanage in Constantinople to Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople after being ordered by European Court of Human Rights

Turky's Islamist PM Erdogan 'hates' Israel on religious grounds, Foreign Minister Davutoglu wants influence in Balkans like in Ottoman empire days

Turkish ultra-nationalists and religious fanatics blamed for Bishop's murder and other killings

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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Christians in northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk cancel Christmas celebrations after threats by the 'worse than animals' Al-Qaeda affiliated Islamic State of Iraq

From AP,

Al-Qaeda threats against Christians have led to Christmas festivities being cancelled in the northern Iraqi oil hub of Kirkuk, its Chaldean Catholic archbishop said on Tuesday.

"The Christians of Kirkuk will not celebrate the feast of Christmas this year, except for masses, which will not be held at night but at 10 am, after myself and 10 other Christian personages received threats from the so-called Islamic State of Iraq," Monsignor Louis Sarko told AFP.

[Previous attack by Islamic State of Iraq: Worse than “animals” Muslim terrorists who took Baghdad church hostage left 51 Christians dead]

Less than two weeks after the church attack, a string of bombings targeting Christian homes and shops in Baghdad killed six more people.

[The Islamic terrorists demanded that Christians make effort to free women who allegedly converted to Islam from Christianity in Egypt but are being improsined by the Coptic church.


Source: AP


Comments: At lest this has nothing to do with Crusader-Zionist Western White invading occupiers. Left-wingers and Muslims who love this excuse for Islamic terrorism must be disappointed.

Islamic Stat of Iraq's thinking is infected by conspiracy theories and they suffer from delusions of persecution (they are the ones committing the crimes but think that they are the victims.).

This is common among Muslims, even among those in the West.

This also show their primitive childish double standard supremacist 'psychology' and 'morality'. They are so upset about a falsely alleged imprisonment of two converts to Islam, yet a relatively large number Muslims, even in the West, believe those who leave Islam should be killed and many who do are being threatened, killed or imprisoned.

Their primitive mind is no different from that of a child who only thinks of itself and can't think of anything else and cries or throw up a violent tantrum if it doesn't gets its way.

They know of no other way of dealing, other than through violence and savagery.


Some previous similar or related stories:

Worse than “animals” Muslim terrorists who took Baghdad church hostage left 51 Christians dead [Previous attack by Islamic State of Iraq]

The “Devil's hand” terrorists demanded priest convert to Islam before shooting his head during Baghdad church siege [A second report on the previous attack by the Islamic Stat of Iraq]

Christian convert from Islam, Nurta Mohamed Farah, 17, killed in Somalia. Her parents treated conversion as mental illness & tortured her [Muslims complain but this is what happen to Muslims who convert to Christianity]

Still no sign of Somali Christian convert girl kidnapped by al Shabaab [A real kidnap of an ex-Muslim who converted to Christianity]

Musa Sayed, 45, and Ahmad Shah, 50, awaiting trial and facing death penalty in Afghanistan for conversion to Christianity from Islam [Two real converts to Christianity from Islam.]

WikiLeaked UK cable: Distorted Muslim view of life-world, blame game, double speak, 'moral equivalence' and, left-wing and media incite-excuse terrorism [Islamic State of Iraq terrorists too have distorted view of life and the world, and are action based on that distorted view.]

Conspiracy theories and blame games: South Sinai governor, Mohamed Abdul Fadil Shousha says Mossad could be behind Sharm el-Sheikh shark attacks [Islamic State of Iraq terrorists and many Egyptians, like many Muslims, believe in conspiracy theories and act or kill based on such false beliefs and paranoia.]

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Incoming US Homeland Security Committee chair Peter King condemns PC, media terror apologetics, Muslims acquiesce-ignoring terror, conspiracy theories, double standards & treachery

From an opinion piece in New York's Newsday, U.S. Rep. Peter King wrote

NOTE: Words in square brackets [] are comments by the author of this blog article and not by Peter King.
To some in the strata of political correctness, I'm a pretty bad guy. To be blunt, this crowd sees me as an anti-Muslim bigot. A spokesman for the Committee on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) denounced me last year for making "bigoted remarks . . . about Muslims and mosques”
[Labeling criticism of Islamic and Muslim problems and hate as 'hate', e.g. 'bigoted'. Its a blasphemy to make such criticism.]
from moralistic condemnation to sorrowful rebuke [by Newsday]
[Moralizing trick. Unfounded moral outrage at any criticism of Islam or Muslims while ignoring far worse wrongs and atrocities by Muslims.]
barely a month after those [9-11] attacks that killed so many hundreds of Long Islanders, prominent Long Island Muslim leaders were insisting there was no evidence that al-Qaida was responsible for the attacks - even saying it could have been the CIA, the FBI or the Zionists!
[A bit of psychology: distorted Muslim views of the world, conspiracy theories, 'Muslims can do no wrong so someone else must be responsible such evils', blame the victim blame game and anti-Semitism. Important to note that this is not a tiny minority of Muslims that have these problems. It's mainstream with even Muslim leaders holding such distorted views.]
Even more troubling is that to this day, no Muslim leader has denounced those vile remarks. Nor did Newsday say a word about these slanders - no moral outrage or condemnation. No demand for an apology or even an explanation.
[Double standards: Muslim and media silence when Muslims make hate remarks but loud outrage at even legitimate criticism of Islam. See hate-labeling above.]
As I became more immersed in attempting to unravel the radical Islamic threat to our nation and our civilization, it became more and more obvious to me that the moral myopia of Long Island's Muslim leaders and their apologists in the media was the rule - and that there were few exceptions.
[Islamism is a global existential threat. Distorted views and political correctness are the rule among Muslims and the media.]
Federal and local law enforcement officials throughout the country told me they received little or - in most cases - no cooperation from Muslim leaders and imams.
[Indirect support for terrorism. They may not be terrorists but they do nothing about terrorism in their mist.]
In the past 15 months we saw Najibullah Zazi, who was raised and educated in Queens, attempt to attack the New York City subway system with liquid explosives, using skills he learned in terrorist training camps in Afghanistan. We learned about Zazi by chance when his name came up on a wiretap. The case was almost compromised when a Queens imam - ostensibly cooperating with the New York City Police Department - tipped off Zazi.
[Treachery: Taqiyya by a hate preacher Imam helping terrorists. Despite claims by leftists social determinists and some Muslims that poverty causes terrorism, Zazi here is a terrorists despite being in the US and getting an education. He wasn't living in poverty in some third world slum.]
a Pew Poll showed that 15 percent of Muslim Americans between 18 and 29 say suicide bombing is justified. I also know of imams instructing members of their mosques not to cooperate with law enforcement officials investigating the recruiting of young men in their mosques as suicide bombers.
[Sympathy for terror is substantial and not restricted to a tiny fringe minority. And these people aren't living in some poor and backward third world Islamic country. They are in the US. These imams must know something about Islam and so must know that 'Islam has nothing to do with terrorism'. Why is it then that they aren't preaching these messages or are helping fight these allegedly un-Islamic terrorists.]
leaders who - for whatever reason - acquiesce in terror or ignore the threat.
[As before, they may not be terrorists themselves but many Muslims, including leaders do noting about it either, and so are in effect condoning or indirectly supporting terror. This is a common problem that also exists in places like Qatar, Pakistan and even in Britain.]

[Caution: Peter King also said he isn't anti-Muslim. He points out that he supported Balkan Muslims including those in Bosnia, Macedonia and Kosovo against Serbian Christians [including Clinton's 1995 and 1998 military offensives], and supported Pakistan on Kashmir against India.]


Source: Newsday (New York) [Thought not referenced, see also the World Net Daily report on this story.]


Comments: The Albanian KLA that the US promoted was a terrorist organization and based on numerous concrete reports, some of their members allegedly killed Christian Serbs and their Albanian rivals to harvest their organs.

This is the norm with many Muslims. If their opponent is stronger than them, they provoke the opponent and play the victim card, even thought they are no different or far worse.

This should always be remembered whenever Muslims in position of weakness play victim card. They may be publicly playing victims while killing people and harvesting their organs or doing something similar.

Click on the tags to read about other stories of Muslim treachery, hate campaign against those telling the truth about Islam and Muslims, media bias and terror excuses.


Some previous similar or related stories:

US backed 'ex-terrorist' KLA allegedly killed and harvested organs of Serb civilians but nothing done - justice sacrificed for short-term stability [These KLA terrorists are who Peter King supported against the Christian Serbs. Look what happens and see what those allegedly pitiful oppressed Muslim victims do.]

WikiLeaked UK cable: Distorted Muslim view of life-world, blame game, double speak, 'moral equivalence' and, left-wing and media incite-excuse terrorism [Muslim delusions and media inciting and excusing terror.]

Ex-Guyana MP Abdul Kadir sentenced to life for JFK airport terror plot to kill thousands - spied for Iran, claims Islam forbid killing “innocent” people [Treachery.]

Finally some PROOF: German studies find religious and cultural roots to Muslim propensity to violence, PC excuses can't explain all – like so DUH!!! [Politically correct false taboos about Islam and Muslims exposed and refuted.]

Imam warned to be "different" when reporter visited hate mosque, says Ex-Muslim [Lying hate preaching Imam and (willingly) manipulated media]

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Monday, December 13, 2010

Indonesian Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir charged with terror offenses, including “inciting” terrorism, in relation to Ache terror camp

[Bashir is] charged with founding and financing a terrorist cell uncovered in the Indonesian province of Aceh (The Sydney Morning Herald)

[The terror cell was] discovered in February, where a military-style training camp had been set up (The Sydney Morning Herald)

[Militants at the camp] allegedly were planning terror attacks in Indonesia similar to those that took place in Mumbai, India, in 2008 (CNN)

allegations centre on the substantial funding Bashir's Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid [JAT] organisation gave to the terrorist cell. (The Sydney Morning Herald)

"He is suspected with illegal possession of weapons, sheltering wanted terrorist suspects and concealing information about known terrorists." (CNN)

"The harshest allegation is inciting others to commit crimes of terrorism," [said Muhammad Yusuf, the head of the South Jakarta Prosecutor's Office] (CNN)

Officials said Bashir knew about that camp, helped fund it and appointed religious teachers to provide the militants with spiritual guidance. Bashir allegedly appointed an extremist fugitive known as Dulmatin [now dead after being killed in a police raid] as the field commander. (CNN)

Bashir, 71, is of Yemeni origin and was a founding member of the Jemaah Islamiah organisation that was behind both Bali bombings and other attacks across Indonesia. (The Sydney Morning Herald)

the 2002 bombing of Indonesia's Bali resort nightclubs ... left more than 200 dead, including 88 vacationing Australians. (UPI)

[Jemaah Islamiah or JI] allegedly has ties with al-Qaida. JI, whose goals at one time included the formation of a single Islamic south Asian state, continues to be a major security concern for several other regional countries, notably Malaysia and Singapore and parts of the southern Philippines and southern Thailand. (UPI)

In 2008 he claimed that the first bomb set off in Bali was very small. "At most it shattered glass and didn't wound people, or at most wounded them a little," he said. The main explosion was what he called "a micro-nuclear bomb, not a regular bomb ... The bomb was made by the CIA, it could be no one else."(UPI)


Source: CNN, The Sydney Morning Herald, UPI


Comments: It is good that the Indonesians are charging Bashir, but the chief of Indonesian police General Timur Pradopo was the founding member of stick-wielding Islamic extremist vigilante group Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) and there is also the problem of West Papua where 100,000 or 20 percent of the population has died under Indonesian occupation.

And this from a previous report
Human rights groups accuse the Indonesian military of killings, murder, torture and abuse of Papua's ethnic Melanesian majority and separatists in the Maluku islands.

In the latest incident, soldiers were caught on video torturing Papuan civilians earlier this year but no one has been held responsible.
Bashir apparently (he doesn't really but is just making it up to fool paranoid gullible Muslims who like blaming anything bad on non-Muslims) believes the CIA set off a micro-nuclear bomb in Bali, and what this shows is the presence of conspiracy theories throughout the Muslim world.

Just the other day, Egypt's South Sinai governor, Mohamed Abdul Fadil Shousha was suggesting that Mossad could be behind shark attacks at Sharm el-Sheikh.

And a few days before that US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks showed that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamist foreign policy advisor Ahmet Davutogluwas were susceptible to Islamist conspiracy theories - some of them pulled from the web.

Also a few days ago, Anis Saputra, 24, and Kiki Hanafilia, 17, both married, were caned under Islamic sharia law for kissing each other in Aceh.

Could there be a link between the fact that Ache is a staunch Islamic province which implements Sharia law and that a terror camp was found in that sharia province?


Some previous similar or related stories:

Anis Saputra, 24, and Kiki Hanafilia, 17, both married, caned under Islamic sharia law for kissing each other in Aceh province, Indonesia

Video shows barbaric torture of Black Papuans by Indonesian occupiers in West Papua where genocide has already killed a fifth of the population

A burnt Koran among torched Ahmadiyah mosque and houses in Indonesia

Nominee for Chief of Indonesian police reportedly a founding member of extremist Islamist group [He has now been appointed.]

Jihad warriors attack shadow puppet shows in Indonesia

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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Conspiracy theories and blame games: South Sinai governor, Mohamed Abdul Fadil Shousha says Mossad could be behind Sharm el-Sheikh shark attacks

Last week, 'oceanic white tip sharks mauled three Russians and a Ukrainian tourist'2 'off the coast of Sharm el-Sheikh.'2 'In one of those attacks, a shark bit off an elderly woman's hand and tore off another woman's leg.'2

After those attacks authorities hunted down two sharks and reopened the beach deeming it safe.1

'However, an Egyptian NGO warned on Saturday that at least one of the sharks behind the attacks was still at large.'1

On Sunday an elderly3 German woman tourist snorkeler died after a shark 'mauled her thigh and arm'.1

According to AFP, 'South Sinai governor Mohammed Shosha has said the sharks could have turned frenzied after a ship transporting livestock dumped dead sheep into the sea, while marine experts said overfishing may have forced them closer to shore.'1

'Environmentalists warned that the string of recent attacks is likely a result of the Red Sea's declining ecosystem. Gabar, the head of the CDWS [Chamber of Diving and Water Sports], said he's seen a jump in the number of sharks off Egypt's Red Sea coast, which he said could be caused by overfishing, which could force sharks to swim closer to shore in search of food.'2

BBC reports that,
Conspiracy theories are always popular in the Middle East, with unlikely suggestions often made that troubles in Arab countries could be caused by Mossad agents.3

Rumours had circulated in Egypt that there could be an Israeli connection to this unusual spate of Red Sea shark attacks.3
An official Egyptian news site reported South Sinai governor, Mohamed Abdul Fadil Shousha, as saying3 
"What is being said about the Mossad throwing the deadly shark [in the sea] to hit tourism in Egypt is not out of the question, but it needs time to confirm"3

Sources: 1. AFP, 2. AP, 3. BBC


Comments: Conspiracy theories and blame games in the Muslim world are nothing new and reaches up to the highest levels of society.

And as usual, such beliefs are followed by further beliefs of being persecuted (victim-card) and visions of the grandeur and supremacy of Islam.

This problem is made worse by politically correct censors who censor any attempt to expose it, while feeding the fire with politically correct lies that praise those in the wrong as being good, right and wonderful, and condemn legitimate criticisms as 'hate', 'bigotry' and 'Islamophobia' (worse things said and done by the other side are ignored). 

A few days ago this site reported the revelation from US embassy cables leaked by WikiLeaks that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was susceptible to Islamist conspiracy theories - some of them pulled from the web. The following quote is from that story.

AFP reports other cables as saying,
Erdogan lacks "vision" and "analytic depth", reads "minimally", ignores foreign ministry expertise and is guided by an "iron ring of sycophantic (but contemptuous) advisors... which partially explains... his susceptibility to Islamist theories."

He is said to rely on "his charisma, instincts, and the filterings of advisors who pull conspiracy theories off the Web or are lost in neo-Ottoman Islamist fantasies, e.g., Islamist foreign policy advisor... Ahmet Davutoglu."

A cable signed by the US ambassador in January 2010 says Davutoglu wants to reassert on the Balkans the influence the Ottoman empire used to exert on the region.
As for the blame game, here are some quotes from two previous articles which can be found here and here.

Walter Rodgers, a former senior international correspondent for CNN said,
Bernard Lewis, the renowned Princeton scholar of Islam, has called attention to the Arab tendency to play “the blame game.”

He notes Arabs traditionally blamed the Mongols, the Ottoman Turks, the colonial powers, and now the Jews and the Americans for everything that has gone awry
And Political science teacher Houchang Hassan-yari, of Canada's Royal Military College said,
it is Tehran's standard practice to finger "outside forces and outside enemies for everything bad that goes on inside the country."

Some previous similar or related stories:

Turky's Islamist PM Erdogan 'hates' Israel on religious grounds, Foreign Minister Davutoglu wants influence in Balkans like in Ottoman empire days

Deadly dysfunctional Muslim culture, past, present, future, and why democracy and modernization fail

(Bad) Muslim psychology: The blame game

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Turky's Islamist PM Erdogan 'hates' Israel on religious grounds, Foreign Minister Davutoglu wants influence in Balkans like in Ottoman empire days

US embassy cables leaked by WikiLeak say that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan "simply hates Israel" on religious grounds.

A cable reports Israeli ambassador to Turkey, Gabby Levy, as saying "He's a fundamentalist. He hates us religiously and his hatred is spreading."

It said, "Our discussions with contacts both inside and outside of the Turkish government... tend to confirm Levy's thesis that Erdogan simply hates Israel".

AFP reports other cables as saying,

Erdogan lacks "vision" and "analytic depth", reads "minimally", ignores foreign ministry expertise and is guided by an "iron ring of sycophantic (but contemptuous) advisors... which partially explains... his susceptibility to Islamist theories."

He is said to rely on "his charisma, instincts, and the filterings of advisors who pull conspiracy theories off the Web or are lost in neo-Ottoman Islamist fantasies, e.g., Islamist foreign policy advisor... Ahmet Davutoglu."

A cable signed by the US ambassador in January 2010 says Davutoglu wants to reassert on the Balkans the influence the Ottoman empire used to exert on the region.

Sources: AFP


Comment: This is nothing surprising. Conspiracy theories are rife in the Muslim world, as is expected where lack of freedom hinders rational inquiry and honest debate. In Turkey, questioning the Armenian genocide is discouraged and even persecuted, and in Iran, over five million web sites are blocked (although IranNazi.ir site wasn't) and university courses have been censored to confirm with Islam.

Terrorists and extremists want a global caliphate and are continuing the unfinished conquests with the jihads started 1,400 years ago by Mohammed himself.A bit unfair that they are saying very un-PC things like "sycophantic (but contemptuous)" while everyone else is prevented from being as frank and honest by the PC censors.

Would be very interesting to see what the Turkish and the rest really think too in reality. What kind of conspiracy theories they believe and what fantasies they have.

This also shows clearly once again that Islamists and terrorists simply hates for religious reasons and not for this or that issue, as they always say to excuse their hate, and as is always believed by naive wishful thinkers and fueled by PC fascists with agendas.

Previous similar or related stories:

Kosovo national, Ilir Rrecaj, accused of involvement in killing Serbs to harvest human organs, indicted by EU for unrelated human kidney trafficking [Turkish doctor Yusuf Sonmez was involved]

Muslim violence and discrimination causing Christians exodus from Middle East to be discussed at Vatican synod [Turkey was mentioned]

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Worse than “animals” Muslim terrorists who took Baghdad church hostage left 51 Christians dead

   Jihad terrorists from Al-Qaeda aligned Islamic State of Iraq attacked Our Lady of Salvation,6 a Syrian Catholic church in Baghdad,4 during Sunday evening service12 attended by 120.10

   The Muslim terrorists killed some worshipers and held the rest hostage while demanding the release of al-Qaeda in Iraq members in Egypt and Iraq.10 The terrorist who made the demands appeared to be a foreigner as he did not have an Iraqi accent.10

   The terrorists also said they were avenging "the burning of the Qur'ans and the jailing of Muslim women in Egypt."6 The Qur'an burning probably referred to the threatened but later canceled Qur'an burning event by Reverend Terry Jones to protesting an Islamic cultural center being built near Ground Zero.9

   The Muslim women allegedly jailed in Egypt were Wafaa Constantine and Camilia Shehata, who Muslims falsely claim, had been abducted and held in Egypt's Coptic Christian monasteries for converting to Islam from Christianity.7 These claims had been rejected even by the Sunni authorities of Al Azhar,4 the leading Islamic institution in Egypt.7

    The church was stormed after 9 p.m. by Iraqi Special Operations troops10 after learning that some hostages had been executed earlier.11 51 worshipers, including two priests, at least 8 women, 5 children, and 7 troops were killed during the rescue operation and nearly 60 others were injured.10 Five of the attackers were also killed and eight of them arrested.10

   Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said the attack was an attempt to [ethnically and religious cleanse and] drive more Christians out of Iraq.2 Chaldean Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly claims over a million have already fled the country since the fall of Saddam Hussein.2

   In an internet message claiming responsibility for the attack, Islamic State of Iraq called the church "the dirty den of idolatry"8 [although Muslims consider the Kaaba, a black rock in Mecca, as the most sacred site and pray facing it and walk around it during the Hajj] and/or a "den of polytheism".10

  The Chaldean bishop of Baghdad, Shlimoune Wardouni, condemned the attacks saying, "It's a great sorrow, because this was an inhuman act. Even animals are not doing this to each other".1


  Some descriptions of the worst than animal behavior


  This from CNN

   Mass was in progress when attackers stormed in5

   Silvana Maro said

“They said if anyone lifts their head we will shoot. My cousin moved slightly. They shot him, his brains exploded all over”.5
  Anna Hannow held her aunt’s bloodied purse, the stench of death still fresh. Her aunt was eighty years old.5
“They shot her in the face, there was nothing left of her face” She told us.5


  This report from the Guradian

At sunset yesterday, Raghada al-Wafi walked excitedly to mass with news for the priest who married her a month ago. Tonight, exactly 24 hours later, she returned to the Our Lady of Salvation church – this time carried by her family in a coffin that also contained her unborn child.6

Today the priest who blessed her marriage and pregnancy minutes before he was killed will also be buried, as will several dozen other members of his congregation – all of them slain by terrorists6


  This report from AP

They ordered the priest to call the Vatican to demand the release of Muslim women who they claimed were being held captive by the Coptic church in Egypt. When the priest said he could not do that, the gunmen shot him and turned their guns on the congregation, killing most of those in the front pew.3

One woman told investigators she survived only because her father wrapped himself around her body in a shield that ultimately killed him.3


Sources: 1. AFP, 2. 3.* AP, 4. AsiaNew.it, 5. CNN, 6. Guardian, 7. National Review, 8. Reuters, 9. The Christian Century, 10. 11. The Washing Post, 12. UPI


Note: The AP report written by Barbara Surk for source number 3 was orignally posted at The San Francisco Chonicle at this link but it has recently been replaced with another story. The original story can still be view at the link given in the sources section, at the time of writing this story.