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2004-08-27 Europe

Greek Orthodox Church Bombed In Northern Cyprus

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Posted by TS(vice girl) 2004-08-27 8:51:35 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 One should drown the fanatic arshole who did that in the Mediteranean sea, I hope he'll be catched.

Posted by Murat 2004-08-27 9:36:39 AM|| 2004-08-27 9:36:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 For once I agree with Murat. Shock.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-08-27 9:54:54 AM|| 2004-08-27 9:54:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 So Murat, how does it feel to know that you and all your family were once Greek, forced to change your language and religion by the invading Turks?

Posted by mary 2004-08-27 9:59:28 AM|| 2004-08-27 9:59:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Murat,

I would have said, "Many should drown the fanatic...." (and "catch" is an irregular verb, so the the past tense is "caught" -- today seems to be Good Grammar Day here at R.U.), but otherwise I, too, agree completely.

Posted by trailing wife 2004-08-27 9:59:30 AM|| 2004-08-27 9:59:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 arshole? Clue #46 this isn't the same MuRAT

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-27 10:09:28 AM|| 2004-08-27 10:09:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I'll believe "Murat" on this when he applies the same ire to terrorism in Iraq. For some reason, he celebrates it, even when the targets are similar.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-08-27 10:12:51 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-08-27 10:12:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Mary, I have friends from Eritrea who are Catholic, thanks to the Italian invasion, but who can remember being forced at swordpoint to convert from Judaism by Constantine. So what? History happened a long time ago. If we hold on to such long-ago grudges, the whole world would turn into Yugoslavia!

Posted by trailing wife 2004-08-27 10:20:48 AM|| 2004-08-27 10:20:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Clue #Frank Gabble, I am the one and only.

Comparing this with Iraq needs some irony (a lot).

Trailing Wife, tanks for the grammar course, next time I read my hastily typed comments.:)

Posted by Murat 2004-08-27 10:22:05 AM|| 2004-08-27 10:22:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Comparing this with Iraq needs some irony (a lot).

Really?

Is your memory so poor as to be unable to stretch back less than a month?

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-08-27 10:46:58 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-08-27 10:46:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 And just for giggles, I went back through Rantburg's archives, and in the articles dealing with the church bombings in Iraq, I couldn't find a single quote from the 'Rat! Was it beneath his notice? I find that hard to believe -- FOUR churches were bombed on August 1st, killing around a dozen people, and Murat makes no comment. I'm sure he condemned it somewhere, if only in his own mind.

Then again, maybe not. Murat (or his doppelganger) has been quite the cheerleader for the "resistance" in Iraq.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-08-27 11:01:34 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-08-27 11:01:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 he's pro-terrorist, and above all, anti-american. Turkish penis-envy

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-27 11:09:15 AM|| 2004-08-27 11:09:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 C'mon folks, let's be nice, Murat isn't a terrorist sympathezier. I appreciate the fact that he'd drown whoever did this in the Med. I would only add some Chicago-style concrete shoes to that person before heaving him overboard, but otherwise Murat is right on.

Murat isn't the problem in the Middle East, he just has a differernt point of view. That's rather, um, American.

Posted by Steve White 2004-08-27 11:16:50 AM|| 2004-08-27 11:16:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 respectfully disagree, Steve - basing my opinion on more than his (yes, I agree with him on this one) comment above - see, for example: 90%+ of his previous comments

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-27 11:20:13 AM|| 2004-08-27 11:20:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 ...just when I'm ready to write Murat off as a hopeless troll, but Frank G makes the point - next time Americans are killed he'll go back to stomping around and waving his loincloth.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-08-27 11:39:52 AM|| 2004-08-27 11:39:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 Murat isn't a terrorist sympathezier.

His recent comments could have fooled me.

Can we at least say his outrage is extremely selective?

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-08-27 12:35:02 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-08-27 12:35:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Could this be the original Murat? I would have sworn he was knocked off by the dread bedwettian or Robert Crawford.

Posted by Shipman 2004-08-27 5:00:53 PM|| 2004-08-27 5:00:53 PM|| Front Page Top

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