Saturday, January 2, 2016

Giving Credit to Christian Terrorists

UNLESS I'M DREAMING, the phrase is "Islamo-terrorism". To omit the word "Islamo", it would seem, is to exonerate the Islamic faith of culpability, which, according to the Americano-conservtive community, simply won't do.When we mention an act of terrorism perpetrated by someone professing to a Moslem, all billion and a half Moslems merit mention. Our conservative colleagues apply an entirely different standard to acts of terrorism perpetrated by people professing to be christians. The lynchings carried out by the KKK have, to my knowledge, never been ascribed to "Christiano-terrorism", and make no mistake; the KKK consists, and always has consisted, entirely of Christians, if only because they claim to be Christian. Terrorists who bomb abortion clinics and murder abortion providers? Christian terrorists, one and all. There was once, in the great Christian state of Arkansas, an organization called "The Covenant, the Sword, and The Arm of the Lord". All the members were devout Christians, so they said. Their purpose was to eliminate all African Americans, homosexuals, and non Christians in general from the face of the Earth, and to establish what they considered to be God's kingdom on Earth. After a few shoot outs and stand offs with federal agents, the group broke up, unless unbeknownst to me they have rallied anew. And last but assuredly not least, we must never forget the "Branch Davidians", under David Koresh, who read from the Bible each and every day; a group of devout christians who stockpiled weapons and all died in a self inflicted blaze of glory. Give credit where credit is due; Moslems and Christians both can be quite competent in committing acts of terrorism.

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