Turkish authorities are investigating a Catholic priest who baptized a Muslim who later turned on him. According to the news organization Zenit, Turkish authorities have seized the Capuchin’s passport. It sounds like the monk was set up. The report says the 26-year-old Muslim insistently asked for baptism, and when the 70-year-old missionary gave it to him, the Muslim turned the old priest in to authorities. One of the monk’s brother priests asks, “Why does Turkey call itself a secular state and put a friar under investigation who baptized a converted Muslim?” Good question. The Corner reader who passed this story along says, “Whenever I hear someone call Turkey a ’secular democracy’ and complain about its exclusion from the European Union, stories like this come to mind.” Can anybody imagine the government of any historically Christian EU member state putting an imam under investigation for receiving a Christian into the Muslim faith?