Why ignore Christian terrorists? The Christian Terrorist Movement No One Wants To Talk About BY JACK JENKINS Last Friday, Larry McQuilliams was shot and k**led by police after...

Kevyn

The Christian Terrorist Movement No One Wants To Talk About
BY JACK JENKINS

Last Friday, Larry McQuilliams was shot and k**led by police after unleashing a campaign of violence in Austin, Texas, firing more than 100 rounds in the downtown area before making a failed attempt to burn down the Mexican Consulate. The only casualty was McQuilliams himself, who was felled by officers when he entered police headquarters, but the death toll could have been far greater: McQuilliams, who was called a terrorist by Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo, had several weapons, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and a map pinpointing 34 other buildings as possible targets including several churches.
While the impetus for McQuilliams onslaught remains unclear, local authorities recently announced that he may have been motivated by religion but not the one you might think. According to the Associated Press, police officers who searched McQuilliams van found a copy of Vigilantes of Christendom, a book connected with the Phineas Priesthood, an American w***e s*********t movement that claims Christian inspiration and opposes interracial intercourse, racial integration, homosexuality, and a******n. Phineas priests take their name from the biblical figure Phinehas in the book of Numbers, who is described as brutally murdering an Israelite man for having sex with a foreign woman, who he also k**ls. Members of the Phineas Priesthood which people join simply by adopting the views of the movement are notoriously violent, and some adherents have been convicted of bank robberies, bombing a******n clinics, and planning to blow up government buildings. Although McQuilliams didnt leave a letter explaining the reason for his attack, a handwritten note inside the book described him as a priest in the fight against anti-God people.
McQuilliams possible ties to the Phineas Priesthood may sound strange, but its actually unsettlingly common. In fact, his association with the h**eful religious group highlights a very real but often under-reported issue: terrorism enacted in the name of Christ.
To be sure, violent extremism carried out by people claiming to be Muslim has garnered heaps of media attention in recent years, with conservative pundits such as Greta Van Susteren of Fox News often insisting that Muslim leaders publicly condemn any acts of violence perpetrated in the name of Islam (even though many already have).
But there is a long history of terrorist attacks resembling McQuilliams rampage across Austin where violence is carried out in the name of Christianity in the United States and abroad. In America, the Ku Klux Klan is well-known for over a century of gruesome crimes against African Americans, Catholics, Jews, and others all while ascribing to what they say is a Christian theology. But recent decades have also given rise to several Christian Identity groups, loose organizations united by a h**eful understanding of faith whose members spout scripture while engaging in horrifying acts of violence. For example, various members of The Order, a militant group of largely professed Mormons whose motto was a verse from the book of Jeremiah, were convicted for murdering Jewish talk show host Alan Berg in 1984; the Army of God, which justifies their actions using the Bible, is responsible for bombings at several a******n clinics, attacks on gay and lesbian nightclubs, and the explosion at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia; and Scott Roeder cited the Christian faith as his motivation for k*****g George Tiller a doctor who performed late-term a******ns in 2009, shooting the physician in the head at point-blank range while he was ushering at church.
These incidents have been bolstered by a more general spike in homegrown American extremism over the past decade and a half. Between 2000 and 2008, the number of h**e groups in America rose 54 percent according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, and white-s*********t groups including many with Christian roots saw an explosion in recruitment after Barack Obama was elected the countrys first African-American president in 2008. In fact, the growth of this and other homegrown terrorist threats has become so great that it spurred then-Attorney General Eric Holder to revive the Domestic Terror Task Force in June of this year.
Christian extremism has ravaged other parts of the world as well. Northern Ireland and Northern India both have rich histories of Christian-on-Christian violence, as does Western Africa, where the Lords Resistance Army claims a Christian message while forcibly recruiting child soldiers to terrorize local villages. Even Europe, a supposed bastion of secularism, has endured attacks from people who say they follow the teachings of Jesus. In 2011, Anders Behring Breivik launched a horrific assault on innocent people in and around Oslo, Norway, using guns and bombs to k**l 77 many of them teenagers and wound hundreds more. Breivik said his actions were an attempt to combat Islam and preserve Christian Europe, and while he rejected a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, he nonetheless championed Christianity as a cultural, social, identity and moral platform and claimed the faith as the forming framework for his personal identity.
Chillingly, experts warn that something like Breiviks attack could easily happen in the United States. Daryl Johnson, a former Department of Homeland Security analyst, said in a 2010 interview that the Hutaree, an extremist m*****a group in Michigan that touts Christian inspiration, possessed a cache of weapons larger than all the Muslims charged with terrorism the United States since the September 11 attacks combined.
Yet unlike the accusatory responses to domestic jihadist incidents such as the Fort Hood massacre, news of McQuilliams possible ties to the Christian Identity movement has yet to produce a reaction among prominent conservative Christians. Greta Van Susteren, for instance, has not asked Christian leaders such as Pope Francis, Rick Warren, or Billy Graham onto her show to speak out against violence committed in name of Christ. Rather, the religious affiliation of McQuilliams, like the faith of many right-wing extremists, has largely flown under the radar, as he and others like him are far more likely to be dismissed as mentally unstable lone wolfs than products of extremist theologies.
Granted, right-wing extremism like Muslim extremism is a complex religious space. Some participants follow religions they see as more purely white such as Odinism and others act more out of a hatred for government than religious conviction. Nevertheless, McQuilliams attack is a stark reminder that radical theologies exist on the fringes of most religions, and that while Muslim extremism tends to make headlines, religious terrorism is by no means unique to Islam.

BOHICA

Kevyn wrote:

The Christian Terrorist Movement No One Wants To Talk About
BY JACK JENKINS

Last Friday, Larry McQuilliams was shot and k**led by police after unleashing a campaign of violence in Austin, Texas, firing more than 100 rounds in the downtown area before making a failed attempt to burn down the Mexican Consulate. The only casualty was McQuilliams himself, who was felled by officers when he entered police headquarters, but the death toll could have been far greater: McQuilliams, who was called a terrorist by Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo, had several weapons, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and a map pinpointing 34 other buildings as possible targets including several churches.
While the impetus for McQuilliams onslaught remains unclear, local authorities recently announced that he may have been motivated by religion but not the one you might think. According to the Associated Press, police officers who searched McQuilliams van found a copy of Vigilantes of Christendom, a book connected with the Phineas Priesthood, an American w***e s*********t movement that claims Christian inspiration and opposes interracial intercourse, racial integration, homosexuality, and a******n. Phineas priests take their name from the biblical figure Phinehas in the book of Numbers, who is described as brutally murdering an Israelite man for having sex with a foreign woman, who he also k**ls. Members of the Phineas Priesthood which people join simply by adopting the views of the movement are notoriously violent, and some adherents have been convicted of bank robberies, bombing a******n clinics, and planning to blow up government buildings. Although McQuilliams didnt leave a letter explaining the reason for his attack, a handwritten note inside the book described him as a priest in the fight against anti-God people.
McQuilliams possible ties to the Phineas Priesthood may sound strange, but its actually unsettlingly common. In fact, his association with the h**eful religious group highlights a very real but often under-reported issue: terrorism enacted in the name of Christ.
To be sure, violent extremism carried out by people claiming to be Muslim has garnered heaps of media attention in recent years, with conservative pundits such as Greta Van Susteren of Fox News often insisting that Muslim leaders publicly condemn any acts of violence perpetrated in the name of Islam (even though many already have).
But there is a long history of terrorist attacks resembling McQuilliams rampage across Austin where violence is carried out in the name of Christianity in the United States and abroad. In America, the Ku Klux Klan is well-known for over a century of gruesome crimes against African Americans, Catholics, Jews, and others all while ascribing to what they say is a Christian theology. But recent decades have also given rise to several Christian Identity groups, loose organizations united by a h**eful understanding of faith whose members spout scripture while engaging in horrifying acts of violence. For example, various members of The Order, a militant group of largely professed Mormons whose motto was a verse from the book of Jeremiah, were convicted for murdering Jewish talk show host Alan Berg in 1984; the Army of God, which justifies their actions using the Bible, is responsible for bombings at several a******n clinics, attacks on gay and lesbian nightclubs, and the explosion at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia; and Scott Roeder cited the Christian faith as his motivation for k*****g George Tiller a doctor who performed late-term a******ns in 2009, shooting the physician in the head at point-blank range while he was ushering at church.
These incidents have been bolstered by a more general spike in homegrown American extremism over the past decade and a half. Between 2000 and 2008, the number of h**e groups in America rose 54 percent according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, and white-s*********t groups including many with Christian roots saw an explosion in recruitment after Barack Obama was elected the countrys first African-American president in 2008. In fact, the growth of this and other homegrown terrorist threats has become so great that it spurred then-Attorney General Eric Holder to revive the Domestic Terror Task Force in June of this year.
Christian extremism has ravaged other parts of the world as well. Northern Ireland and Northern India both have rich histories of Christian-on-Christian violence, as does Western Africa, where the Lords Resistance Army claims a Christian message while forcibly recruiting child soldiers to terrorize local villages. Even Europe, a supposed bastion of secularism, has endured attacks from people who say they follow the teachings of Jesus. In 2011, Anders Behring Breivik launched a horrific assault on innocent people in and around Oslo, Norway, using guns and bombs to k**l 77 many of them teenagers and wound hundreds more. Breivik said his actions were an attempt to combat Islam and preserve Christian Europe, and while he rejected a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, he nonetheless championed Christianity as a cultural, social, identity and moral platform and claimed the faith as the forming framework for his personal identity.
Chillingly, experts warn that something like Breiviks attack could easily happen in the United States. Daryl Johnson, a former Department of Homeland Security analyst, said in a 2010 interview that the Hutaree, an extremist m*****a group in Michigan that touts Christian inspiration, possessed a cache of weapons larger than all the Muslims charged with terrorism the United States since the September 11 attacks combined.
Yet unlike the accusatory responses to domestic jihadist incidents such as the Fort Hood massacre, news of McQuilliams possible ties to the Christian Identity movement has yet to produce a reaction among prominent conservative Christians. Greta Van Susteren, for instance, has not asked Christian leaders such as Pope Francis, Rick Warren, or Billy Graham onto her show to speak out against violence committed in name of Christ. Rather, the religious affiliation of McQuilliams, like the faith of many right-wing extremists, has largely flown under the radar, as he and others like him are far more likely to be dismissed as mentally unstable lone wolfs than products of extremist theologies.
Granted, right-wing extremism like Muslim extremism is a complex religious space. Some participants follow religions they see as more purely white such as Odinism and others act more out of a hatred for government than religious conviction. Nevertheless, McQuilliams attack is a stark reminder that radical theologies exist on the fringes of most religions, and that while Muslim extremism tends to make headlines, religious terrorism is by no means unique to Islam.

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Muslims make the headlines because they commit more atrocities than every other religion combined.

wuzblynd Loc: thomson georgia

Kevyn wrote:

The Christian Terrorist Movement No One Wants To Talk About
BY JACK JENKINS

Last Friday, Larry McQuilliams was shot and k**led by police after unleashing a campaign of violence in Austin, Texas, firing more than 100 rounds in the downtown area before making a failed attempt to burn down the Mexican Consulate. The only casualty was McQuilliams himself, who was felled by officers when he entered police headquarters, but the death toll could have been far greater: McQuilliams, who was called a terrorist by Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo, had several weapons, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and a map pinpointing 34 other buildings as possible targets including several churches.
While the impetus for McQuilliams onslaught remains unclear, local authorities recently announced that he may have been motivated by religion but not the one you might think. According to the Associated Press, police officers who searched McQuilliams van found a copy of Vigilantes of Christendom, a book connected with the Phineas Priesthood, an American w***e s*********t movement that claims Christian inspiration and opposes interracial intercourse, racial integration, homosexuality, and a******n. Phineas priests take their name from the biblical figure Phinehas in the book of Numbers, who is described as brutally murdering an Israelite man for having sex with a foreign woman, who he also k**ls. Members of the Phineas Priesthood which people join simply by adopting the views of the movement are notoriously violent, and some adherents have been convicted of bank robberies, bombing a******n clinics, and planning to blow up government buildings. Although McQuilliams didnt leave a letter explaining the reason for his attack, a handwritten note inside the book described him as a priest in the fight against anti-God people.
McQuilliams possible ties to the Phineas Priesthood may sound strange, but its actually unsettlingly common. In fact, his association with the h**eful religious group highlights a very real but often under-reported issue: terrorism enacted in the name of Christ.
To be sure, violent extremism carried out by people claiming to be Muslim has garnered heaps of media attention in recent years, with conservative pundits such as Greta Van Susteren of Fox News often insisting that Muslim leaders publicly condemn any acts of violence perpetrated in the name of Islam (even though many already have).
But there is a long history of terrorist attacks resembling McQuilliams rampage across Austin where violence is carried out in the name of Christianity in the United States and abroad. In America, the Ku Klux Klan is well-known for over a century of gruesome crimes against African Americans, Catholics, Jews, and others all while ascribing to what they say is a Christian theology. But recent decades have also given rise to several Christian Identity groups, loose organizations united by a h**eful understanding of faith whose members spout scripture while engaging in horrifying acts of violence. For example, various members of The Order, a militant group of largely professed Mormons whose motto was a verse from the book of Jeremiah, were convicted for murdering Jewish talk show host Alan Berg in 1984; the Army of God, which justifies their actions using the Bible, is responsible for bombings at several a******n clinics, attacks on gay and lesbian nightclubs, and the explosion at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia; and Scott Roeder cited the Christian faith as his motivation for k*****g George Tiller a doctor who performed late-term a******ns in 2009, shooting the physician in the head at point-blank range while he was ushering at church.
These incidents have been bolstered by a more general spike in homegrown American extremism over the past decade and a half. Between 2000 and 2008, the number of h**e groups in America rose 54 percent according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, and white-s*********t groups including many with Christian roots saw an explosion in recruitment after Barack Obama was elected the countrys first African-American president in 2008. In fact, the growth of this and other homegrown terrorist threats has become so great that it spurred then-Attorney General Eric Holder to revive the Domestic Terror Task Force in June of this year.
Christian extremism has ravaged other parts of the world as well. Northern Ireland and Northern India both have rich histories of Christian-on-Christian violence, as does Western Africa, where the Lords Resistance Army claims a Christian message while forcibly recruiting child soldiers to terrorize local villages. Even Europe, a supposed bastion of secularism, has endured attacks from people who say they follow the teachings of Jesus. In 2011, Anders Behring Breivik launched a horrific assault on innocent people in and around Oslo, Norway, using guns and bombs to k**l 77 many of them teenagers and wound hundreds more. Breivik said his actions were an attempt to combat Islam and preserve Christian Europe, and while he rejected a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, he nonetheless championed Christianity as a cultural, social, identity and moral platform and claimed the faith as the forming framework for his personal identity.
Chillingly, experts warn that something like Breiviks attack could easily happen in the United States. Daryl Johnson, a former Department of Homeland Security analyst, said in a 2010 interview that the Hutaree, an extremist m*****a group in Michigan that touts Christian inspiration, possessed a cache of weapons larger than all the Muslims charged with terrorism the United States since the September 11 attacks combined.
Yet unlike the accusatory responses to domestic jihadist incidents such as the Fort Hood massacre, news of McQuilliams possible ties to the Christian Identity movement has yet to produce a reaction among prominent conservative Christians. Greta Van Susteren, for instance, has not asked Christian leaders such as Pope Francis, Rick Warren, or Billy Graham onto her show to speak out against violence committed in name of Christ. Rather, the religious affiliation of McQuilliams, like the faith of many right-wing extremists, has largely flown under the radar, as he and others like him are far more likely to be dismissed as mentally unstable lone wolfs than products of extremist theologies.
Granted, right-wing extremism like Muslim extremism is a complex religious space. Some participants follow religions they see as more purely white such as Odinism and others act more out of a hatred for government than religious conviction. Nevertheless, McQuilliams attack is a stark reminder that radical theologies exist on the fringes of most religions, and that while Muslim extremism tends to make headlines, religious terrorism is by no means unique to Islam.

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U are always good for a laugh!! U are a first class i***t!!!!!

BOHICA

wuzblynd wrote:

U are always good for a laugh!! U are a first class i***t!!!!!

Everyone is good at something. LOL!

Kevyn

wuzblynd wrote:

U are always good for a laugh!! U are a first class i***t!!!!!

I doubt the family's of the 168 people k**led or 680 injured in the terrorist attack on the Murrah building in Oklahoma City will find the humor in Christian fundamentalist terrorism that you do.

BOHICA

Kevyn wrote:

I doubt the family's of the 168 people k**led or 680 injured in the terrorist attack on the Murrah building in Oklahoma City will find the humor in Christian fundamentalist terrorism that you do.

Radical Islam is a global organization dedicated to world domination. There is no such organization of Christians. Almost every Christian would condemn such actions. Your attempt to equate the two is laughable. You are truly a pathetic creature.

PoppaGringo Loc: Muslim City, Mexifornia, B.R.

Kevyn wrote:

I doubt the family's of the 168 people k**led or 680 injured in the terrorist attack on the Murrah building in Oklahoma City will find the humor in Christian fundamentalist terrorism that you do.

They weren't k**led by a "Christian" fundamentalist.

Kevyn

PoppaGringo wrote:

They weren't k**led by a "Christian" fundamentalist.

The hell they weren't

Kevyn

BOHICA wrote:

Radical Islam is a global organization dedicated to world domination. There is no such organization of Christians. Almost every Christian would condemn such actions. Your attempt to equate the two is laughable. You are truly a pathetic creature.

Your defense of any terrorism is d********g.

BOHICA

Kevyn wrote:

Your defense of any terrorism is d********g.

If you believe that I was defending terrorism, then that just proves how stupid you are.

wuzblynd Loc: thomson georgia

Kevyn wrote:

I doubt the family's of the 168 people k**led or 680 injured in the terrorist attack on the Murrah building in Oklahoma City will find the humor in Christian fundamentalist terrorism that you do.

The only thing I find funny is u and the horse crap that comes out of your mouth. And I know the whole story of tim and the Murrah bldg. Has nothing to do with what we call terrorism. Hush now grown folks are talking.

wuzblynd Loc: thomson georgia

BOHICA wrote:

Everyone is good at something. LOL!

:thumbup:

PoppaGringo Loc: Muslim City, Mexifornia, B.R.

Kevyn wrote:

The hell they weren't

Who was the 'Christian' fundamentalist that k**led them? It couldn't have been McVeigh as he was no Christian, much less a fundamentalist Christian.

BOHICA

PoppaGringo wrote:

Who was the 'Christian' fundamentalist that k**led them? It couldn't have been McVeigh as he was no Christian, much less a fundamentalist Christian.

You know how it is with liberals

Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone

It appears that you just copied and passed this without researching or even reading it. McQuilliams is the star of the article who "attempted" to burn down a consulate. Not successful if it was an attempt. Number of people k**led, 1 and that would be McQuilliams. Later in the article, and you have to love this...McQuilliams is said to have gone on a rampage..... And top the sundae with the book found in his van.....nothing else to hang the title of Christian rampaging and murdering....but a book. I do wonder what people would say about me based on my library. And, although I doubt that you possess any books, what would be concluded about you based on reading material? Would you be termed a sexual predator because you have "nudie" magazines in your closet?

And if you are keeping score, Muslims have murdered 3,102 Americans on American soil and this does not include 911.

And you want us to take your post seriously when you do not do any quality review of the stuff you post? This article is just another attack on Christians.....and you are part of the problem....you spread this stuff as if it were peanut butter on your P&J sandwich.

Kevyn wrote:

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