German pastor's suicide seen as 'cry against Islam'

[struggle4progress]

Country feeling unease between religious groups
By Brian Murphy
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sunday, November 19, 2006

ERFURT, Germany — ...

In his last sermon in late September — he had been called from retirement to fill in for an absent minister — Weisselberg said Christians in Europe must unite or risk being overrun by Islam in generations to come ...

Weisselberg pulled out a canister of gasoline hidden under his coat. An instant later, he was ablaze. Witnesses told authorities he cried two words: "Jesus" and "Oskar," considered a reference to the Rev. Oskar Bruesewitz, who set himself on fire in 1976 as an apparent protest against the communist East German regime.

Weisselberg died the next day. No formal suicide note was found. But his widow — who has refused to speak publicly — told a church official that her husband left behind a letter describing his angst over Islam's rising power in Europe.

Within hours, Weisselberg's story was being told and retold as an act of self-martyrdom ...

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/world/11/19/19germanpastor.html

[Ecumenist]

1. Okay, this poor man seems to have to had a mental problem

Noone can tell me that this was the act of a balanced man. There were issues that went over and above anything that had to do with his fear of Islam.. I'm a Christian and I've never heard of anything that sanctions this type of action.

[DRoseDARs]

2. If only more religiophobes and homophobes killed themselves out of fear...

...the world would be a better place. Stupid is as stupid does. :eyes:

[southerncrone]

3. Right on!

:applause:

[struggle4progress]

4. Yes, this is psychotic behavior. And the xenophobes politicized it immediately