America’s 10 worst terror attacks by Christian fundamentalists and far-right extremists

[kpete]

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1. Wisconsin Sikh Temple massacre, Aug. 5, 2012. The virulent, neocon-fueled Islamophobia that has plagued post-9/11 America has not only posed a threat to Muslims, it has had deadly consequences for people of other faiths, including Sikhs. Sikhs are not Muslims; the traditional Sikh attire, including their turbans, is different from traditional Sunni, Shiite or Sufi attire. But to a racist, a bearded Sikh looks like a Muslim. Only four days after 9/11, Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh immigrant from India who owned a gas station in Mesa, Arizona, was murdered by Frank Silva Roque, a racist who obviously mistook him for a Muslim.

2. The murder of Dr. George Tiller, May 31, 2009. Imagine that a physician had been the victim of an attempted assassination by an Islamic jihadist in 1993, and received numerous death threats from al-Qaeda after that, before being murdered by an al-Qaeda member. Neocons, Fox News and the Christian Right would have had a field day. A physician was the victim of a terrorist killing that day, but neither the terrorist nor the people who inflamed the terrorist were Muslims. Dr. George Tiller, who was shot and killed by anti-abortion terrorist Scott Roeder on May 31, 2009, was a victim of Christian Right terrorism, not al-Qaeda.

3. Knoxville Unitarian Universalist Church shooting, July 27, 2008. On July 27, 2008, Christian Right sympathizer Jim David Adkisson walked into the Knoxville Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee during a children’s play and began shooting people at random. Two were killed, while seven others were injured but survived. Adkisson said he was motivated by a hatred of liberals, Democrats and gays, and he considered neocon Bernard Goldberg’s book, 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America, his political manifesto. Adkisson (who pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and is now serving life in prison without parole) was vehemently anti-abortion, but apparently committing an act of terrorism during a children’s play was good ol’ Republican family values. While Adkisson’s act of terrorism was reported on Fox News, it didn’t get the round-the-clock coverage an act of Islamic terrorism would have garnered.

4. The murder of Dr. John Britton, July 29, 1994. To hear the Christian Right tell it, there is no such thing as Christian terrorism. Tell that to the victims of the Army of God, a loose network of radical Christianists with a long history of terrorist attacks on abortion providers. One Christian Right terrorist with ties to the Army of God was Paul Jennings Hill, who was executed by lethal injection on Sept. 3, 2003 for the murders of abortion doctor John Britton and his bodyguard James Barrett. Hill shot both of them in cold blood and expressed no remorse whatsoever; he insisted he was doing’s God’s work and has been exalted as a martyr by the Army of God.

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mho, these are NOT Christians
i respect those who see Jesus, not as a god
BUT as a role-model and live their lives that way

i am a 63 year old artist/activist & i am entitled to my own opinion
especially today.

peace,
kp

[riqster]

1. Kick and rec.

[phantom power]

2. recommend

[roguevalley]

15. I agree, KP. Thanks for the list. I wanted one for some time now.

You have no idea how much fun it is to remind everyone that Timothy McVey was one and what he did. They have nothing to say.

[riversedge]

3. Wisconsin listed. Glad it was included. thanks

[hlthe2b]

4. I think you can just short circuit to: Oklahoma City....

Tim McVeigh is the poster child that the far right refuses to acknowledge.

[Nye Bevan]

6. "Why I Bombed the Murrah Federal Building" by Timothy McVeigh

http://www.outpost-of-freedom.com/mcveigh/okcwhy.htm

Hint: you will not find the word "Christian" here, or indeed, any mention of religion.

[hlthe2b]

7. The subject is: America’s 10 worst terror attacks by Christian fundies AND FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISTS

(per the actual title of the OP). Are you somehow denying this decrepit white supremacist anti-government POS was a FAR RIGHT EXTREMIST?

[Nye Bevan]

5. Some of those are just ridiculous.

Joseph Stack, for example, never mentioned any Christian motivation. He had been bankrupted by taxes, was being audited, and flew a plane into an IRS building because he was pissed at the IRS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Austin_suicide_attack

Also, Timothy McVeigh never expressed any Christian motivation for the OK bombing, despite extensive interviews. I guess that's why this attack is slipped into the list at #10, as opposed to the #1 slot it would obviously get if it was a genuine Christian terror attack.

[hlthe2b]

8. Once again, you seem to have failed to even read the title of this thread.

Geebus. If you'd actually read the OP or the linked article, you would see the issue is that non-Muslim terror is not as rare an event as the RW would want us to believe. Why you feel the need to deny that, I can not imagine.

[840high]

9. Correct.

[cascadiance]

10. It's interesting to see Christianity Today rationalizing that Eric Rudolph wasn't "Christian"...

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/juneweb-only/6-2-22.0.html

[ileus]

19. A handful of nuts on acting their own...

does not a Christian terrorist movement make...if you're a reasonable person that's easy to understand.

To some 7 or 8 < 20 million

[uppityperson]

20. Christian fundamentalists and far-right extremists

[Enthusiast]

11. Kicked

and recommended a whole bunch!

[LongTomH]

12. Haven't there been a number of attacks on Unitarian/Universalist churches?

Rightwingers seem to reserve a special hatred for U/U churches.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

13. KICK KICK KICK

Rec rec rec!


Terrorism is FUNDAMENTAL.

[VA_Jill]

14. You may claim that they are not Christians

but many of them claimed ties to Christianity, just as many of the Islamists claim to be Muslims, even though a great many mainstream Muslims would say they do NOT live according to the teachings of the Prophet. So there is some serious hair-splitting going on, both sides.

[MisterP]

16. intriguingly, these incidents are uniformly associated with white supremacism

we have a Nazi theology problem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Identity

[Duppers]

21. thanks for this link

[MisterP]

22. that's true even for the ones who bombed "The Last Temptation of Christ"

they were a bunch of LePenists and official heretics

many of them don't even say any pope's been legitimate since '58: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedevacantism

it's not *important* to know the background of what's being talked about (completeness for completeness's sake) it's *crucial*--likewise with Paris: without thinking about violence in general, without actually knowing what was in the magazine, without considering AQ's nihilism and very rocky history with Washington, then conversation is flying completely blind, just maundering and speaking in generalities

[Ferd Berfel]

17. Christianists = Non Christian bible cult memeber pretending to be christian

probably for the tax breaks.

Most people I meet these days, who call themselves 'Christians', are racist, anti-Semitic, sociopathic, paranoid, and hate-full. And pompous about it.

I was raised Lutheran 60 years ago. I rarely meet 'Christians' today who actually understand they are under a New Covenant and actually follow the teachings and life-example of the guy they are supposedly following. Apparently they do not teach that part in their churches anymore.

The day after Ferguson went south I had to listen to one 'kristian' I work with pompously state "ever notice white people never riot..." I will have to work with him again on Monday. I'll have this article to hand him

[Dreamer Tatum]

18. Gee, when you put it THAT way, those radical Islamists are downright cuddly. nt

[niyad]

23. missed this the first time, so thanks for bringing it up.