Posted on 05/19/2006 3:45:32 PM PDT by cchandler
The tragedy didn't send shockwaves across the world, but the reaction to it might.
I'm talking about the news that Islamic extremists in Turkey brutally attacked judges at their top administrative court. The terrorist's aim was to undermine the Turkish government's strong tradition of secularism, hoping to impose sharia law on the Turks by fear of murder.
Here is how a Turkish Press article described the scene:
A senior judge was killed and four others wounded when a man shouting "I am a soldier of Allah" stormed into the court and sprayed bullets on judges who were in the middle of a legal session, officials said.Court members described the attack as retaliation for rulings confirming a ban on Islamic headscarves in public institutions and universities in Turkey.
The attack raised tensions as the Islamist-rooted government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which is critical of the headscarf ban and court rulings upholding it, faced accusations of failing to defend the republic's secular principles.<.blockquote>....
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Religion of Peace murders innocent life again.
All in the name of Allah.
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