More god wars
A Greek Orthodox priest was shot Saturday while he was closing his church in the French city of Lyon, and authorities locked down part of the city to hunt for the assailant, authorities said.
The priest, a Greek citizen, is in a local hospital with life-threatening injuries after being shot twice in the abdomen, a police official told The Associated Press. The attacker was alone and fired from a hunting rifle, said the official, who was not authorized to be publicly named.
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The reason for the shooting was unclear. It happened two days after an Islamic extremist knife attack at a Catholic church in the French city of Nice that killed three people, and amid ongoing geopolitical tensions caricatures mocking the Muslim Prophet Muhammad published in satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
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Antoine Callot, the pastor at another Greek Orthodox church in Lyon, identified the wounded priest as Nikolas Kakavelakis, a 45-year-old father of two. Callot told The Associated Press that the Greek Orthodox community in Lyon has not received any threats, but said he immediately asked police for security protection at his church after the shooting. “We are anxious and anguished. It’s really horrible,” he said. “Now we need to hide and be careful.”
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Seeking to calm tensions and to explain France’s defense of the prophet cartoons, President Emmanuel Macron gave an interview broadcast Saturday on Arabic network Al-Jazeera. Macron also tweeted that “our country has no problem with any religion. They are all practiced here freely! No stigmatization: France is committed to peace and living together in harmony.”
Therefore bang bang.
“Religion of peace”™.
Muslims to their credit try to practice their creed as they would have preferred it to have been laid down by The Prophet (pbuh), without all the nasty bits. But the society that Islam seeks to create is one of entry-level fascism, with everyone submitting to the Prophet’s (pbuh again) spokesmen here on Earth, all self-appointed, as Islam has no pope or official hierarchy, and every mosque is an independent business.
The result is a Holy Schemozzle, with the odd randy wild man who can’t wait for his promised deal of 72 virgins.
Those virgins all have my sympathy: all 72 of ’em.
Early evidence seems to suggest that this wasn’t a terrorist attack but that there was some sort of personal conflict between the two men. Doesn’t make it OK, though, of course.
More recent evidence seems to confirm that is has nothing to do with Islamic terrorism, but it’s not certain yet.