Note to Fox News - Terrorism is as American as Cherry Pie

[MrScorpio]

16th Street Baptist Church bombing

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The three-story Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was a rallying point for civil-rights activities through the spring of 1963, and is where the students who marched out of the church to be arrested during the 1963 Birmingham campaign's Children's Crusade were trained. The demonstrations led to an agreement in May between the city's black leaders and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to integrate public facilities in the country.

In the early morning of Sunday, September 15, 1963, Bobby Frank Cherry, Thomas Blanton, Herman Frank Cash, and Robert Chambliss, members of United Klans of America, a Ku Klux Klan group, planted 22 sticks of dynamite with a delayed-time release outside the basement of the church.

At about 10:22 a.m., when twenty-six children were walking into the basement assembly room for closing prayers of a sermon entitled “The Love That Forgives,” the bomb exploded.<1> According to an interview on NPR on September 15, 2008, Denise McNair's father stated that the sermon never took place because of the bombing.<2> Four girls, Addie Mae Collins (aged 14), Denise McNair (aged 11), Carole Robertson (aged 14), and Cynthia Wesley (aged 14), were killed in the attack, and 22 additional people were injured, one of whom was Addie Mae Collins' younger sister, Sarah.

The explosion blew a hole in the church's rear wall, destroyed the back steps, and left intact only the frames of all but one stained-glass window. The lone window that survived the concussion was one in which Jesus Christ was depicted knocking on a door, although Christ's face was destroyed. In addition, five cars behind the church were damaged, two of which were destroyed, while windows in the laundromat across the street were blown out.

The Rest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing

Depicting terrorism as some new phenomena that was brought to our shores by "Islamic Jihadists" is disingenuous as best, but really, it's just another lie that par for the course.

[6000eliot]

1. But is it terrorism if white people do it?

[MrScorpio]

2. According to Fox, it makes a big difference

All dem Mooslims out there are out to git us.

[pinboy3niner]

3. Sorry, MrS, no traction here

Comparing American terrorism to foreign terrorism doesn't make attacks on the U.S. NOT terrorism. Nice try, but no cigar. And, if you want to persuade teabagger types, you have to go much less intellectual.:)