Just Another Day In The "Religion Of Peace"
Three Protestants at a Christian publishing house in Turkey were horribly tortured before they were killed, reportedly by members of a cell of nationalist-Islamist fanatics. A doctor and hospital spokesman describes one of the victims:

"He had scores of knife cuts on his thighs, his testicles, his rectum and his back," Ugras said. "His fingers were sliced to the bone. It is obvious that these wounds had been inflicted to torture him," he said.

The two others who were killed, Necati Aydin, pastor of Malatya's tiny Protestant community, and German Tilmann Geske, a Malatya resident with his wife and three children since 2003, were also tortured, press reports said.

The abuse lasted for three hours as the five men detained at the crime scene interrogated the three on their missionary activities, they said.

"We tied their hands and feet and later gagged them," the mass daily Sabah quoted one of the suspects as telling police.

"Emre slit their throats," said the youth, who was not identified, referring to Emre Gunaydin, the alleged leader of the gang, who is at the same hospital in serious condition after jumping out of the publishers' third floor office in a bid to flee police.

Gunaydin, 19, had reportedly made several visits beforehand to the publishing house to gain the confidence of the people working there, papers said.

The daily Radikal said the German was the first to die and the two Turks were slaughtered only when police arrived at the door after receiving a call from a member of the Protestant community who grew suspicious when he found the office door locked.

Proselytizing is not banned in Muslim, secular Turkey, but is generally viewed with suspicion.

via JihadWatch