8 Christian Terrorist Organizations That Equal ISIS The right-wing is quick to condemn all of Islam like it’s a singular entity, and hold every Muslim accountable for the actions of a handful bad apples. As I’ve often said, no one religion — not even Buddhism — has the “right” to claim they’re non-violent. Holy War is one of those things that cuts across all religions equally. And while you can point this out to right-wingers, they won’t listen: they’re quick to invoke Boko Haram, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Al-Sheebab, or some other terrorist agency and pretend they’re the sum total of all Muslims.
Well, there are Christian terrorist agencies that are just as scary, and some of them just as bad if not worse, than ISIS. A few of these you may have heard of, but since our so-called “liberal media” gets cold feet at naming Christian Terrorism what it is, some of them slip under the radar or aren’t as associated with Christian terrorism as they should be in the popular imagination. 8. Lord’s Resistance Army Active: 1980s-Present, about 30 years Who are they? The Lord’s Resistance Army <http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19960401&slug=2321945> (LRA) is a Christian Fundamentalist terrorist group originally from Uganda, but now active in the Sudan, the Central African Republic, and other places. Uganda, you may remember <http://aattp.org/american-evangelicals-are-quietly-supporting-deadly-anti-gay-legislation-in-uganda/>, is a hotbed of Christian Fundamentalism <http://aattp.org/tea-partiers-rejoice-hateful-anti-gay-ugandan-elected-president-of-un-general-assembly/>, so it makes sense that a group who calls themselves “Christianist” would come from the country. The LRA surfaced in the popular conscious sometime ago when Joesph Kony suddenly became a meme on the internet <http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/03/25/294315138/joseph-kony-is-back-in-the-news-do-teenagers-still-care>; up to that point, their main claim to fame is child sex slaves and children soldiers. Indeed, the LRA is known to orchestrate kidnappings <http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2011/10/2011101418364196576.html>, railroading young boys into fighting while forcing young girls into sexual slavery <http://www.warchild.org.uk/issues/the-lords-resistance-army>. Those who refused to fight were hacked to pieces. The young girls are forced to be “brides” for the soldiers, and thus helping to spread HIV. They’re especially brutal towards civilians, as well, wiping out entire villages and attacking refugee camps. The goal of the LRA is pretty straight froward: they want a Bible-based state that uses the Ten Commandments as guide posts <http://www.irinnews.org/indepthmain.aspx?InDepthId=23&ReportId=65772>. That’s something any right-wing politician or Christianist can sympathize with, right? 7. Ku Klux Klan Active: 1860s-Present, 149 years Who are they? These guys don’t need any introduction <http://aattp.org/arkansas-town-greets-people-with-pro-ku-klux-klan-billboard-video/>; every American knows who the Invisible Empire <http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/ideology/ku-klux-klan/the-ku-klux-klan-0> is. The Klan name probably comes from the Ancient Greek ‘κύκλος <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BA%CF%8D%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%82>‘ ( *kuklos*), which means “circle.” There’s a frightening overlap between White Supremacist ideology and Christian terrorism in the Western World, and the Klan is the tip of that iceberg. There’ve actually been three Klans; the first one was formed in 1865, in Pulaski, and drew on former members of the Confederacy Army. They were a vigilante group, and they wore the sheets as a reminder of their fellow Confederates who died (think the classic “sheet ghost” and you’re not far off). Everything about the Klan is geared towards terrorism and psychological war, from the uniform to the cross burning. And while it’s true the Klan got their start as an arm of the Democratic Party <http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5073/>, it was back when the Republicans were Theodore Roosevelt and not Sarah Palin, so I dare you to tell a modern Klansman they voted for Barack Obama. While the Klan started out hunting down and terrorizing freemen and women, that wasn’t their sole target. The Klan is a far right-wing Protestant organization <http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3788348?sid=21105816294373&uid=2&uid=3739808&uid=3739256&uid=4>, and being a Protestant organization <http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/bakgos.html>, they hate Catholics. As a result, Klan has targeted both Catholics and Jews <http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5073/> in the (not-so-distant <http://aattp.org/cnn-asks-can-the-klan-rebrand-after-kkk-leader-shoots-up-jewish-center/>) past. The KKK’s history is so violent, in fact, that many draw a comparison between the KKK and Al Qaeda <http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/al-qaeda-islam-kkk-to-protestantism/>, although I think that’s an unfair comparison, as I’ll explain below. 6. National Liberation Front of Tripura Active: 1989 to present, about 30 years Who are they? You’ve probably heard of the Lord’s Resistance Army and the KKK, but this is a group that I’m pretty sure you haven’t, unless you’re from India. It’s easy for us to forget, as Americans, just how *big* India is; it’s far more diverse than Europe is, culturally speaking, and it’s roughly the same size. It’s called the “world’s largest democracy” for a reason, but as the United States shows, no democracy is without it’s secessionists. And these folks are just some of the many secessionist organizations in India. According to their manifesto, the NLFT wants <http://www.trackingterrorism.org/group/national-liberation-front-tripura-nlft> ” to expand the kingdom of God and Christ in Tripura,” and often does so at the point of a gun. They threatened anyone celebrating the Hindu Festival of Durga Puja with death <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/953200.stm>, and are backed by a Baptist Church that’s selling them arms <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/717775.stm>. They’ve orchestrated at least two massacres <http://www.telegraphindia.com/1000522/the_east.htm#head6>, and used rape as a tool of intimidation <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4190570.stm>. While the Nayanbasi faction has been shut down, the Biswamohan faction has promised to fight on <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Liberation_Front_of_Tripura>. So here we have a Christian terrorist group spreading their faith in India “by sword,” metaphorically, and at the point of a gun more prosaically — small wonder we haven’t heard anything about them in the West, huh? 5. Antibalaka Active: 1990s to present, about 25 years Who are they? I’ve cited the Central African Genocide <http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-25273681> in at least two articles now; these are the militia behind that genocide. Their name means “anti-machete” in the Sango and Mandja languages, and they first formed to defend Christians and Animists who were on the receiving end of politically motivated violence carried out by Muslims <http://time.com/42131/anti-balaka-central-african-republic/>. As these things often do, the tables turned, and now the Antibalaka is doing what right-wingers only wish they could do: ethnically cleanse their country of all Muslims. <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/22/central-african-republic-verge-of-genocide> This includes children, who they’ve targeted and murdered in the past <http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-25216351>. Now, the Antibalaka nowstand accused of crimes far worse <http://en.apa.az/xeber_cafrica_militia_is_an_enemy_of_peace__f_206912.html> than anything that Séléka, the Muslim rebel group, are guilty of. 4. Catholic Reaction Force/Protestant Action Force Active: 1983 till 1994; at least 2002 for other groups using the CRF name; 1970s till 1990s for PAF Who are they? Really, anytime some claims that Christians aren’t violent, all you have to do is direct them to Ireland. I could do a whole entry on what happened in North Ireland, beginning in the 1970s. Americans like to pretend that Eire is Guinness, the Blarney Stone, and leprechauns, but during the 1970s, religious violence a la the Thirty Years’ War was painting the Emerald Isle ruby red. The Irish call this time period The Troubles, and that’s an understatement if there ever was one. The Provisional IRA is perhaps the best known terrorist agency from the period and would definitely earn their spot on this list, if I weren’t aiming for more obscure groups, but the Catholic Reaction Force <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Reaction_Force> and Protestant Action Force <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Action_Group> were also active and, in the case of the latter, also responsible for a large number of murders. For those who are unfamiliar with the Troubles, it occurred in North Ireland and, as so many European conflicts do, pitted Protestants against Catholics in unmitigated bloodshed. The CRF was behind the Darkley killings <http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch83.htm#Nov>, in addition to several mailed bombings in the early 2000s. The PAF, which was far more effective in their killings, has a rap sheet a mile long. You can find it on the Wikipedia page,here <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Action_Group>. 3. The Orange Volunteers Active: Early 1970s to Present, about 40 years Who are they: We’re staying in Ireland for this next group. Fans of science fiction probably remember the *Orange Catholic Bible* from Frank Herbert’s *Dune*, but may never have understood why that name was so subversive, or why it was similar to Herbert’s other Coca-Pepsi religious hybrids like Zensunni. Orange is the color of Protestantism in Ireland, and green is the color of Catholicism; when you wear green on St. Patty’s Day, you’re proclaiming your Catholic heritage. The Orange Volunteers <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Volunteers>, then, are a Protestant terrorist organization. The OV are Protestant Fundamentalist, and responsible for a number of violent attacks in North Ireland <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Volunteers#Timeline>. While the police have been cracking down on the group, the group is still considered to be active <http://www.start.umd.edu/tops/terrorist_organization_profile.asp?id=79> and is still terrorizing Catholic citizens and hitting “soft targets.” 2. The Aryan Nations Active: Unknown, to the Present Who are they? “The Aryan Nations” is an umbrella agency that nets a large number of White and Christian Supremacist agencies ranging from certain breeds of Neo-Nazi to the KKK itself. It’s heyday was in the 1980s and the 1990s, when various White Nationalist groups would convene at the group’s Idaho compound for their annual congress. <http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/aryan-nations> The Aryan Nations got their start in the Christian Identity movement, but has since fractured into no fewer than three factions, with one faction even looking to buddy-buddy with Al-Qaeda in 2005 <http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/29/schuster.column/>. The Phineas Priesthood is another branch <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Priesthood>, and they’ve made headlines here on AATTP before <http://aattp.org/homegrown-american-extremist-tea-partier-who-shot-up-austin-also-member-of-christian-hate-group/>. The last faction is the Aryan Nation Revival, which holds to their Christian Identity heritage like small-town Conservatives cling to their guns and Bibles. 1. The Christian Identity Movement Active: 1920/1930s to Present, about 95 years Who are they? When you’re dealing with White Nationalism and White Supremacy in the United States, it’s turtles all the way down, but you can almost certainly find God at the top of the heap. That’s what the Christian Identity Movement is <http://archive.adl.org/learn/ext_us/christian_identity.html?xpicked=4&item=Christian_ID>; it’s not necessarily an organization so much as it is a loose affiliation of organizations like the Aryan Nations. The Christian Identity Movement is a very weird movement; they actually have hostile relations with Evangelicals and other charismatic Protestants — not because they’re racist bigots, no; it’s because the CIM is Post-Millennial <http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/ideology/christian-identity>, where the vast majority of Evangelicals are Pre-Millennial. This distinction is lost on anyone who hasn’t studied the Scofield-Derby Heresies, but the basic idea is that the Tribulation has already occurred and the goal is to build up the world to the second coming. Their theology is just as skewed, though; for instance, members of the CIM believe that non-Caucasians don’t have souls <http://books.google.com/books?id=r5BzY2eeyngC&pg=PA68&dq=%22christian+identity%22+%22no+soul%22+pre-adamic&num=100#v=onepage&q=%22christian%20identity%22%20%22no%20soul%22%20pre-adamic&f=false>, and therefore, can’t be saved. The CIM is made up of various Christian terrorist organizations, like Americans Promise Ministries, who are responsible for terrorist attacks and bank robberies <http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/americas-promise-ministries>; the aforementioned Aryan Nations; the Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord; the Oklahoma Constitution Militia; and the South African Groups that were behind the 2002 Soweto bombings <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Soweto_bombings>. This group is why I consider the comparison between the KKK and Al-Qaeda to be unfair. The CIM is a worldwide movement, with adherents across the Commonwealth and former-Commonwealth Countries, as well as the United States, and is responsible for ideologically motivated terrorism. This, I think, makes the Christian Identity Movement a much better comparison to Al-Qaeda than the KKK. So this is it? Nope. There are hundreds more. I mentioned a few of them in the article — the Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord, the Oklahoma Constitution Militia, and the Provisional IRA are just a few who didn’t get entries but deserve noting anyway. By now it should be apparent to anyone watching that Christian Terrorism is a thing, it exists, and it’s just as bad and widespread as Islamic Terrorism. The only difference between Christian Terrorism and Islamic terrorism is that Christian Terrorism never makes the evening news. On Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 8:19:05 AM UTC-5, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.investigativeproject.org/5288/islamic-university-of-minnesota-a-hotbed > > > > Islamic University of Minnesota a Hotbed of Extremism > > > > *by John RossomandoIPT NewsApril 8, 2016* > > *http://www.investigativeproject.org/5288/islamic-university-of-minnesota-a-hotbed > > <http://www.investigativeproject.org/5288/islamic-university-of-minnesota-a-hotbed>* > > > > [image: Description: > http://www.investigativeproject.org/pics/large/1477.jpg]The > Minneapolis-based Islamic University of Minnesota (IUM) has an extremism > problem. > > It is run by a man who used a recent sermon to invoke a Hadith commonly > espoused by Muslim terrorists to kill Jews for causing "corruption in the > land." Waleed Idris al-Meneesey also has written that Muslims should place > sharia law above "man-made" law. > > During a November sermon, al-Meneesy referred to the Hadith, a saying from > Islam's prophet Muhammad, describing how Jews had been punished by God > repeatedly for "corruption." > > "When the Children of Israel returned to cause corruption in the time of > our Prophet Muhammad," al-Meneesy said > <http://almenesi.com/play.php?catsmktba=378> in a translation by the > Investigative Project on Terrorism, "and they disbelieved him, God > destroyed him at his hand. In any case, God Almighty has promised them > destruction whenever they cause corruption." > > History will repeat itself, he said. > > "The Prophet related that in the Last Days his Umma [people] would fight > the Jews, the Muslims East of the Jordan River, and they [the Jews] west of > [the Jordan River] ... Even trees and stones will say: O Muslim, this is a > Jew behind me, kill him, except for Gharqad trees, the trees of the Jews. > Because of this they plant many of them..." > > Jerusalem "remained in the hands of the Muslims until it fell into the > hands of the Jews in 1387 AH [1967 AD], and has been a prisoner in their > hands for 34 years [sic], but the victory of God is coming inevitably." > > Al-Meneesy, the IUM's president and chancellor <https://archive.is/kndU6>, > also serves as an imam at a Bloomington, Minn. mosque where at least five > young men left the United States to fight with terrorist groups al-Shabaab > and ISIS. > > IUM opened in 2007, claiming 160 students > <http://www.hiiraan.com/news2/2007/feb/new_islamic_university_opens_in_minneapolis.aspx> > > registered for classes, which cost $150 each. Current enrollment figures > could not be found. IUM's website describes programs ranging from two year > associates degrees to full doctorates. A bachelor's program > <http://iuminnesota.com/bachelor-of-arts/> helps students "acquire all > essential Islamic knowledge." The Ph.D. program costs $3,000, including > thesis review, and is structured > <http://iuminnesota.com/doctor-of-philosophy/> "along the lines of > Universities in the Middle East and Africa." > > The university's website cites recognition > <http://iuminnesota.com/accreditation/> by Holy Quran University in the > Sudan, founded in 1990 <http://www.quran-unv.edu.sd/en/college/1> by the > regime of Sudanese war criminal > <https://www.icc-cpi.int/en_menus/icc/situations%20and%20cases/situations/situation%20icc%200205/press%20releases/Pages/a.aspx> > > and President Omar al-Bashir. Holy Quran University's leaders signed > <http://afghanistanwar.com/showthread.php?t=1851&page=5&pp=15> a 2002 > declaration saying it was forbidden for Muslims to buy American and Israeli > goods. > > IUM also professes to serve as the official representative > <http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/877.pdf> of Sunni > Islam's most important institution – Al-Azhar University, which has grown > increasingly radical – in the U.S. and Canada. Al-Azhar officials have > refused > to condemn > <http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/02/azhar-egypt-radicals-islamic-state-apostates.html> > > the Islamic State (ISIS) as apostates and heretics > <http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/8343.htm>. According to > Egypt's *Youm 7* > <http://www.youm7.com/story/2014/11/26/%D9%85%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%AC-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B2%D9%87%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D9%84%D9%81%D9%89-%D9%84%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9>, > > IUM's curriculum, offered to American students, endorses many practices > used by ISIS. These include > <http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/02/azhar-egypt-radicals-islamic-state-apostates.html>: > > "[K]illing a Muslim who does not pray, one who leaves Islam, prisoners and > infidels within Islam [those who do not have a clearly specified creed or > sect]. [It also allows] gouging their eyes and chopping off their hands and > feet, as well as banning the construction of churches and discriminating > between Muslims and Ahl al-Kitab [Christians and Jews], and insulting them > at times." > > [image: Description: > http://www.investigativeproject.org/pics/large/1478.jpg]Al-Meneesy's > extremism goes further back than his anti-Semitic sermon. In 2007, he > authored a paper for the Assembly of Muslim Jurists Association of America > (AMJA), where he sits on the fatwa committee > <http://www.amjaonline.org/en/about-us/our-scholars-fatwa-committee>. > Muslims should refrain from participating <https://archive.is/ya1ch> in > non-Islamic courts that do not follow Islamic shariah law, particularly > those in the West guided by "man-made" law, al-Meneesey wrote. > > "The authority to legislate rests with Allah alone," al-Meneesey wrote > <https://archive.is/ya1ch>. > > Anyone who uses law other than shariah, such as civil law, is a "corrupt > tyrant," the paper said. Judging by something other than shariah equals > disbelief in Allah, injustice and sinfulness, he wrote. > > Muslims should be forbidden from serving as judges in non-Muslim > countries, except if they are able to rule "according to the judgments of > Allah," al-Meneesey wrote. Muslims who adhere to secular law and refuse to > follow the shariah are infidels. Classical interpretations of the shariah > say that apostates should be killed. > > In 2008, the AMJA issued a declaration > <https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Mainstream_American_Muslim_Group_Warns_Muslims_Against_Working_in_Law_Enforcement> > > telling Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement "in countries which > do not rule by Allah's dictates." That includes the FBI. The declaration > invoked many of the same arguments as al-Meneesey's 2007 paper. > > Meanwhile, al-Meneesey's own Dar al-Farooq Islamic Center > <http://www.amjaonline.org/en/dr-waleed-al-maneese> and Al-Farooq Youth & > Family Center <http://afyfc.com/> have produced at least five young > members who left to fight for ISIS or al-Shabaab in Somalia. They include: > > o Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame > <http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/12/10/what-we-know-abdirizak-warsame>, > 20, of Eagan, Minn. (He was the reputed leader > <http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/12/10/what-we-know-abdirizak-warsame> > of many ISIS recruits from Minnesota.); > > o Abdi Nur > <http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/03/25/minnesota-isis#dmccain> of > Minneapolis; > > o Mohamed Abdihamid Farah > <http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/03/25/minnesota-isis> of Minneapolis; > > o Abdullahi Yusuf of Burnsville > <http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/03/25/minnesota-isis#dmccain>, Minn.; > > o Yusra Ismail > <http://www.yourclassical.org/story/2015/03/25/minnesota-isis> of > Minneapolis; > > It does not appear that al-Meneesy has addressed these cases publicly. > > His radical views are not aberrations at IUM. > > Instructor Sheikh Jamel Ben Ameur refused to denounce ISIS in the fall of > 2014 amid stories about its brutality because news reports were "confusing" > and "complicated," the website *MinnPost* reported > <https://www.minnpost.com/community-sketchbook/2014/11/minnesota-imam-looks-caliphate-through-islamic-lens> > . > > "We don't need to accuse people of something we don't know about. We don't > have to jump into judgment," Ben Ameur told about 100 congregants at his > Masjid al-Tawba in Eden Prairie, Minn. > > Ben Ameur disputed the authenticity of the ISIS propaganda videos showing > the beheadings of American journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley, > suggesting he didn't know whether ISIS was responsible or not. > > Another IUM instructor, Hasan Ali Mohamud, offered condolences > <https://archive.is/aNvJr> after Israel killed Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed > Yassin in 2004. > > Writing under the name Sheikh Xasan Jaamici on the Minneapolis Somali > community news website *SomaliTalk*, Mohamud said > <https://archive.is/aNvJr> that Yassin had achieved martyrdom and that > the "Hamas mujahideen" were fighting for the liberation of the Al-Aqsa > mosque from Israeli control. His Facebook page suggests > <https://www.facebook.com/imamhassanjaamici/photos/pb.334733786693009.-2207520000.1459889668./358794637620257/?type=3&theater> > > that Jaamici is his middle name. > > Jews will face Muhammad's wrath. Muslims who adhere to civil law over > Islamic sharia are infidels. These are ideas supported by Waleed Idris > al-Meneesey, who is responsible for a "university" teaching Muslims about > their faith. Where will Islamic University of Minnesota students get a more > modern and accepting education? > > > > > __._,_.___ > ------------------------------ > Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > ------------------------------ > > > Visit Your Group > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmcGFuZG9jBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0NjAyMjMxNTU-> > > > > [image: Yahoo! 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