Christian Jihad? Why We Should Worry About Right-Wing Terror Attacks Like Norway's in the US

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http://www.alternet.org/story/151751/christian_jihad_why_we_should_worry_about_right-wing_terror_attacks_like_norway%27s_in_the_us_?akid=7299.277129.KB53t5&rd=1&t=2

July 23, 2011 |

The Norwegian police on Saturday charged a 32-year-old man, whom they identified as a Christian fundamentalist with right-wing connections, over the bombing of a government center and a shooting attack on a nearby island that together left at least 91 people dead.

n my new book "Sex, Mom and God" I predicted just such an action. I predicted that right wing Christians will unleash terror here in America too. I predict that they will copy Islamic extremists, and may eventually even make common cause with them.

There is a growing movement in America that equates godliness with hatred of our government in fact hatred of our country as fallen and evil because we allow women choice, gays to marry, have a social safety net, and allow immigration from other cultures and non-white races.

According to the Guardian newspaper, the killer wrote:

"Today's Protestant church is a joke," he wrote in an online post in 2009. "Priests in jeans who march for Palestine and churches that look like minimalist shopping centres. I am a supporter of an indirect collective conversion of the Protestant church back to the Catholic."

[blkmusclmachine]

1. When (not if) Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the US Flag,

brandishing forthwith the Holy Cross, King James Bible, and a copy of the "Patriot Act (I/II)."

[Ghost Dog]

2. Very apposite article.

There is an indirect but deadly connection between the "intellectual" fig-leaf providers/leaders like my late father and periodic upheavals like the loony American Right's sometimes-violent reaction to the election of Barack Obama, killings in Norway and what the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party is about to do to us in forcing a default on our loans, and thus destroying the US economy in a way bin Laden could only have dreamed of doing. -Frank Schaeffer

[BiggJawn]

3. In 3... 2... 1...

Any minute, they'll be here, whining "But he's not a 'Real Christian(tm)'...".

"I can't believe all the Christian bashing they allow here!"

People who just can't wrap their heads around the idea that the nice couple next to them in the Pew might have a closet full of weaponry and a hatred of non-believers.

[nxylas]

7. Might, but probably don't

You sound like the "no such thing as a moderate Muslim" brigade, using the actions of a few to sow the seeds of suspicion against an entire population.

[Scuba]

4. How many times....

...before we finally wake up?

Oklahoma City...

Gabby Gifford....


A couple of cops in Missouri (apologies for not knowing their names)...


etc, etc.


Didn't I just read that Homeland Security stopped watching domestic right-wingers?

[bemildred]

5. We have a long history of such things already. No need to anticipate. nt

[LongTomH]

8. Check out this thread on RW attacks that have already occurred:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=439&topic_id=1557835#top

[Kurmudgeon]

6. According to CNN, police have not officially named him yet.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/07/24/norway.suspect.profile/
"While police have not officially named him, Norwegian television and newspaper reports have identified the suspect as 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik. "

However, lots and lots are definitely trying to put their own spin on things.

[starroute]

9. It's important to point out that the author is Frank Schaeffer

Schaeffer is somebody who's seen it from both sides and knows what he's talking about.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7499

Guest Blogged by Frank Schaeffer

I grew up in a fundamentalist missionary family that in the 1970s and 80s morphed into my father's activity as one of the founders of the Religious Right. We would hobnob with Republican leaders from Ronald Reagan to Gerald Ford and the Bush family, Jack Kemp and many others. One day it dawned on me that the far right of the Republican Party --- in other words its base --- actually hates America. . . .

These days to be a conservative means that you hate the United States government elected by the people; believe that if millions of citizens are out of work that it's their own fault and that the rest of the community should not help them by spending tax dollars; think that Sarah-believes-in-casting-out-demons-before-she-ran-for-governorship-Palin speaks for you. To be a conservative means you believe that healthcare reform will lead to "death panels"; that the president of the United States is not a "real American"; that a university education is a dangerous thing; that Americans who live in big cities are less American than those who live in small towns; that brown people, blacks, progressive whites, gays, public school teachers, Hispanics, immigrants, are somehow conspiring to subvert the "real America" with a "gay agenda" or a "Muslim agenda" or at least the browning of "our" white America.

In other words to be a conservative today is to be an anti-American, nihilistic libertarian know-nothing who believes in unregulated consumerism and the theology of dominion, and the Rapture that many conservatives also subscribe to along with such "facts" as that Obama is the --- literal! --- Antichrist.

[bergie321]

10. Hey Sarah Palin

Right Wing supporters: doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Christians, pls refudiate.