LAST JUNE, Luigi Padovese, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Turkish port city of Iskenderun, was murdered in his home by a 26-year-old Muslim who stabbed him eight times in the heart and then severed his head while shouting “Allah is the greatest.” He was one of many priests murdered in Turkey since 2008.

Here are words of appropriate outrage from Europe.  Austrian MP Ewald Stadler, in a speech addressed to the Turkish ambassador last week, decries the Islamification of the West and the “romance of tolerance and human rights.”

“Your devotion to freedom of religion is pure hypocrisy,” Stadler says to members of parliament who accuse him of being overdramatic.  His words could justifiably be addressed to the Catholic Church as well. This is a stunning speech.

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