ruveyn wrote:
When was the last time a group of fanatical Christians hijacked a commercial air flight and crashed the plane into a tall building?
How many Christian I.E.D. s went off last year.
How many Christian "martyrs" slaughtered innocent folk killing themselves in the process?
If you come up with an answer greater than 0, you have made an error.
ruveyn
Don't get me wrong, I don't think the majority of Christians are terrorists or proponents of violent extremism, but I don't think the majority of Muslims are either.
If you still seriously believe that there aren't Christian terrorists out there right now, here are few tidbits for you:
A brochure published by Aryan Nations includes this statement in their creed of faith (their motto is "Violence Solves Everything"):
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"We BELIEVE there is a battle being fought this day between the children of darkness (today known as Jews) and the children of Light (God), the Aryan race, the true Israel of the Bible."
From religious tolerance.org:
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Violence by extremist Christians in the United States has been responsible for attacks on Jewish centers, attempts to poison municipal water supplies, bombing of abortion clinics, and shooting of abortion providers. Timothy McVeigh’s bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City during 1995 killed 168 people, including 19 children.
The Order (a.k.a. the Silent Brotherhood, or Holy Order of Aryan Warriors) brought together militant racists from Christian Identity, some Odinists, and people of conventional neo-Nazi backgrounds.
There are striking parallels between the white supremacists and the religiously motivated Islamic Shi’a fanatics in the Middle East. Both groups transform abstract political ideologies and objectives into a religious imperative. Violence is not only sanctioned, it is divinely decreed. Hence, the killing of persons described as 'infidels' by extremist Shi’a or as ‘children of Satan’ by the white supremacists thus becomes a sacramental act.
From Wikipedia:
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They were explicitly Christian terrorist in ideology, basing their beliefs on a "religious foundation" in Christianity.[65] The goals of the KKK included, from an early time on, an intent to "reestablish Protestant Christian values in America by any means possible," and believe that "Jesus was the first Klansman."[66] Their cross-burnings were conducted not only to intimidate targets, but to demonstrate their respect and reverence for Jesus Christ, and the lighting ritual was steeped in Christian symbolism, including the saying of prayers and singing of Christian hymns.[67] Many modern Klan organizations, such as the Knights Party, USA, continue to focus on the Christian supremacist message, asserting that there is a "war" on to destroy "western Christian civilization."
During the twentieth century, members of extremist groups such as the Army of God began executing attacks against abortion clinics and doctors across the United States.[68][69][70] A number of terrorist attacks were attributed to individuals and groups with ties to the Christian Identity and Christian Patriot movements, including the Lambs of Christ.[71] A group called Concerned Christians were deported from Israel on suspicion of planning to attack holy sites in Jerusalem at the end of 1999, believing that their deaths would "lead them to heaven."[72][73]
Terrorism scholar Aref M. Al-Khattar has listed The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord, Defensive Action, The Freemen Community, and some "Christian militia" as groups that "can be placed under the category of far-right-wing terrorism" that "has a religious (Christian) component".
In 1985 Michael Bray was convicted for destroying eight women's health care clinics and other properties in the Washington DC area. He says Christianity justifies acts of terrorism.
Nine members of a Christian militia group, Hutaree, were chargedwith plotting to kill a police officer and slaughter scores more with homemade bombs. According to the indictment, the actions were done in hopes of igniting an uprising against the U.S. government.
Cody Crawford, a self-proclaimed 'Christian warrior' was accused of firebombing a mosque. Court documents show that three weeks after the mosque firebombing, in unrelated encounters with police, Crawford ranted about Muslims, and said Christians are capable of jihad and told an officer he resembled President Barack Obama.
a court document quotes Crawford as telling a McMinnville officer, "You look like Obama. You are a Muslim like him. Jihad goes both ways. Christians can jihad too."
George Tiller was murdered
in church by Scott Roeder over abortion (an act praised by the Army of God).
How about Eric Rodolph, Shelley Shannon, Paul Jennings, Paul Hill, and John Brockhoeft?
And that is just in the US. You can find plenty more examples of modern day Christian terrorism in like The Lord's Resistance Army of Uganda, In Assam, the Manmasi National Christian Army (MNCA) in Assam, The National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) operating in Tripura (North-East India), National Socialist Council of Nagaland (also India), in Nigeria Christian rioters armed with machetes slaughtered more than 200 people including a 4-day-old infant in a reprisal attack (most of the victims were Muslims).
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08 Aug 2013, 9:55 am
