You're now citing the SPLC Plain Ol'? The SPLC is a "Hate Group/Hate Site"; and I am surprised that you are not championing them....My how times have changed.
According to the SPLC, Franklin Graham and his global charity Samaritan's Purse is probably listed as a terrorist group. On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 9:06 PM, plainolamerican <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.salon.com/2015/04/07/6_modern_day_christian_terrorist_groups_our_media_conveniently_ignores_partner/ > TUESDAY, APR 7, 2015 02:15 PM EDT6 modern-day Christian terrorist groups > our media conveniently ignoresThey don't get the coverage of ISIS or Boko > Haram, but organizations like "The Army of God" are no less dangerousALEX > HENDERSON <http://www.salon.com/writer/alex_henderson/>, ALTERNET > [image: 6 modern-day Christian terrorist groups our media conveniently > ignores] > > The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) recently released an in-depth > report on terrorism in the United States. Covering April 2009 to February > 2015, the report (titled “The Age of the Wolf”) found that during that > period, “more people have been killed in America by non-Islamic domestic > terrorists <http://www.splcenter.org/lone-wolf> than jihadists.” The SPLC > asserted that “the jihadist threat is a tremendous one,” pointing out that > al-Qaeda’s attacks of September 11, 2001 remain the deadliest in U.S. > history. But the study also noted that the second deadliest was carried out > not by Islamists, but by Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma City on April 19, > 1995—and law enforcement, the SPLC stressed, are doing the public a huge > disservice if they view terrorism as an exclusively Islamist phenomenon. > > The report, in a sense, echoed the assertions that President Barack Obama > made when he spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in February and > stressed that Muslims don’t have the market cornered on religious > extremism. In the minds of far-right Republicans, Obama committed the > ultimate sin by daring to mention that Christianity has a dark side > <http://www.salon.com/2015/02/06/wingnuts_latest_meltdown_conservatives_go_nuts_over_obamas_remarks_on_christianity_and_islam/> > and > citing the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition as two examples from the > distant past. Obama wasn’t attacking Christianity on the whole but rather, > was making the point that just as not all Christians can be held > responsible for the horrors of the Inquisition, not all Muslims can be > blamed for the violent extremism of ISIS (the Islamic State, Iraq and > Syria), the Taliban, al-Qaeda or Boko Haram. But Obama certainly didn’t > need to look 800 or 900 years in the past to find examples of extreme > Christianists committing atrocities. Violent Christianists are a reality in > different parts of the world—including the United States—and the fact that > the mainstream media don’t give them as much coverage as ISIS or Boko Haram > doesn’t mean that they don’t exist. > > Below are six extreme Christianist groups that have shown their capacity > for violence and fanaticism. > > 1. The Army of God > > A network of violent Christianists that has been active since the early > 1980s, the Army of God openly promotes killing abortion providers—and the > long list of terrorists who have been active in that organization has > included Paul Jennings Hill (who was executed by lethal injection in 2003 > for the 1994 killings of abortion doctor John Britton and his bodyguard > James Barrett), John C. Salvi (who killed two receptionists when he > attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1994) > and Eric Rudolph, who is serving life in prison for his role in the Olympic > Park bombing in Atlanta in 1996 and other terrorist acts. Rudolph, in fact, > has often been exalted as a Christian hero on the Army of God’s website > <http://www.armyofgod.com/>, as have fellow Army of God members such as > Scott Roeder (who is serving life without parole for murdering Wichita, > Kansas-based abortion doctor George Tiller in 2009), Shelley Shannon (who > attempted to kill Tiller in 2003) and Michael Frederick Griffin (who is > serving a life sentence for the 1993 killing of Dr. David Gunn, an OB-GYN, > in Pensacola, Florida). > > Although primarily an anti-abortion organization, the Army of God also has > a history of promoting violence against gays > <http://www.salon.com/2002/02/19/gays_10/>. And one of the terrorist acts > that Rudolph confessed to was bombing a lesbian bar in Atlanta in 1997. > > 2. Eastern Lightning, a.k.a. the Church of the Almighty God > > Founded in Henan Province, China in 1990, Eastern Lightning (also known as > the Church of the Almighty God or the Church of the Gospel’s Kingdom) is a > Christianist cult with an end-time/apocalypse focus > <http://articles.latimes.com/2012/dec/17/world/la-fg-china-doomsday-arrests-20121218>: > Eastern Lightning believes that the world is coming to an end, and in the > meantime, its duty is to slay as many demons as possible. While most > Christianists have an extremely patriarchal viewpoint (much like their > Islamist counterparts) and consider women inferior to men, Eastern > Lightning believe that Jesus Christ will return to Earth in the form of a > Chinese woman. But they are quite capable of violence against women: in May > 2014, for example, members of the cult beat a 37-year-old woman named Wu > Shuoyan to death in a McDonalds in Zhaoyuan, China when she refused to give > them her phone number. Eastern Lightning members Zhang Lidong and his > daughter, Zhang Fan, were convicted of murder for the crime and executed > in February > <http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/02/china/mcdonalds-murder-culprits-executed/>. > In a 2014 interview in prison, Lidong expressed no remorse when he said of > Shuoyan, “I beat her with all my might and stamped on her too. She was a > demon. We had to destroy her.” > <http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-29581195> > > Eastern Lightning’s other acts of violence > <http://en.people.cn/n/2014/0603/c90882-8735801.html> have ranged from > the killing of a grammar school student in 2010 (in retaliation, police > believe, for one of the child’s relatives wanting to leave the cult) to > cult member Min Yongjun using a knife to attack an elderly woman and a > group of schoolchildren in Chenpeng in 2012. Christian groups are not > exempt from Eastern Lightning’s fanaticism: in 2002, cult members kidnapped > 34 members of a Christian group called the China Gospel Fellowship and held > them captive for two months > <http://www.vice.com/read/the-chinese-cult-who-kidnap-christians-and-paint-snakes> > in > the hope of forcing them to join their cult. Although mainly active in the > communist People’s Republic of China, Eastern Lighting has been trying to > expand > its membership in Hong Kong > <http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/06/world/asia/china-eastern-lightning-killing/> > . > > 3. The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) > > The mainstream media have had much to say about the Islamist brutality of > Boko Haram, but one terrorist group they haven’t paid nearly as much > attention to is the Lord’s Resistance Army—which was founded by Joseph Kony > (a radical Christianist) in Uganda in 1987 and has called for the > establishment of a severe Christian fundamentalist government in that > country. The LRA, according to Human Rights Watch, has committed thousands > of killings and kidnappings > <http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/03/21/qa-joseph-kony-and-lords-resistance-army#3>—and > along the way, its terrorism spread from Uganda to parts of the Congo, the > Central African Republic (CAR) and South Sudan. The word “jihadist” is > seldom used in connection with the LRA, but in fact, the LRA’s tactics are > not unlike those of ISIS or Boko Haram. And the governments Kony hopes to > establish in Sub-Saharan Africa would implement a Christianist equivalent > of Islamic Sharia law. > > 4. TheNational Liberation Front of Tripura > > India is not only a country of Hindus and Sikhs, but also, of Muslims, > Buddhists, Catholics and Protestants. Most of India’s Christians are > peaceful, but a major exception is the National Liberation Front of Tripura > (NLFT). Active in the state of Tripura in Northeastern India since 1989, > NLFT is a paramilitary Christianist movement that hopes to secede from > India > <http://www.trackingterrorism.org/group/national-liberation-front-tripura-nlft> > and > establish a Christian fundamentalist government in Tripura. NLFT has zero > tolerance for any religion other than Christianity, and the group has > repeatedly shown a willingness to kill, kidnap or torture Hindus who refuse > to be converted to its extreme brand of Protestant fundamentalism. > > In 2000, NLFT vowed to kill anyone who participated in Durga Puja > <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/953200.stm> (an annual Hindu > festival) And in May 2003, at least 30 Hindus were murdered during one of > NLFT’s killing sprees. > > 5. The Phineas Priesthood > > White supremacist groups don’t necessarily have a religious orientation: > some of them welcome atheists as long as they believe in white superiority. > But the Christian Identity movement specifically combines white supremacist > ideology with Christianist terrorism, arguing that violence against > non-WASPs is ordained by God and that white Anglo Saxon Protestants are > God’s chosen people. The modern Christian Identity movement in the U.S. has > been greatly influenced by the Ku Klux Klan—an organization that has > committed numerous acts of terrorism over the years—and in the 1970s, new > Christian Identity groups like the Aryan Nations and the Covenant, the > Sword and the Arm of the Lord (CSA) emerged. Another Christian Identity > group of recent decades has been the Phineas Priesthood, whose members have > been involved in violent activities ranging from abortion clinic bombings > to bank robberies > <http://preps.spokesman.com/stories/1997/nov/01/sentencing-delayed-for-valley-bomber-but-no-third/> > (mainly > in the Pacific Northwest). On November 28, 2014, Phineas Priesthood member > Larry Steven McQuilliams went on a violent rampage > <http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/12/01/police-austin-shooter-belonged-to-an-ultra-conservative-christian-hate-group/> > in > Austin, Texas—where he fired over 100 rounds at various targets (including > a federal courthouse, the local Mexican Consulate building and a police > station) before being shot and killed by police. > > 6. The Concerned Christians > > One of the ironic things about some Christianists is the fact that > although they believe that Jews must be converted to Christianity, they > consider themselves staunch supporters of Israel. And some of them believe > in violently forcing all Muslims out of Israel. The Concerned Christians, a > Christianist doomsday cult that was founded by pastor Monte “Kim” Miller in > Denver in the 1980s, alarmed Colorado residents when, in 1998, at least 60 > of its members suddenly quit their jobs, abandoned their homes and went > missing—and it turned out there was reason for concern. In 1999, Israeli > officials arrested 14 members of the Concerned Christians in Jerusalem and > deported > them from Israel <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/251815.stm> because > they suspected them of plotting terrorist attacks against Muslims. One > likely target, according to Israeli police, was Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque > <http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/11/jews-muslims-share-al-aqsa-mosque-2013111184111359951.html>—the > same mosque that was targeted in 1969 (when a Christianist from Australia > named Denis Michael Rohan unsuccessfully tried to destroy it by arson) and, > Israeli police suspect, was a likely target in 2014 (when Adam Everett > Livix, a Christianist from Texas, was arrested by Israeli police on > suspicion of plotting to blow up Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem > <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/09/israel-indicts-texan-plot-attack-muslim-sites> > ). > > In 2008, Denver’s KUSA-TV (an NBC affiliate) reported that members of the > Concerned Citizens had gone into hiding > <http://www.culteducation.com/group/864-concerned-christians/3559-christian-cult-still-in-hiding-after-10-years.html> > and > that Miller hadn’t been seen in ten years. > > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. 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