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Notorious Christian terrorist Eric Rudolph was sentenced to two life t erms on Monday. The one-time fugitive had carried out four bombings that terrorized the southeastern areas of the United States. Among his crime s were the blowing up of an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, whic h killed a policeman, and a bombing of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , Georgia.
Terry Nichols of the Oklahoma City bombing was likewise connected to Christian identity and their "El ohim City". Of course, you won't see the headline above in American newspapers, even though any Muslim who acts as Rudolph did would be called an "Islamic te rrorist" (a particularly objectionable term because "Islamic" means "hav ing to do with the Muslim faith). It is like talking about "terrorism ro oted in Christianity." Other things you won't see in the American press about this story (satire alert): Thomas Friedman will not write an op-ed for the New York Times about what is wrong with white southern Christian males that they keep producing t hese terrorists. He will also not ask why Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertso n are not denouncing Eric Rudolph every day at the top of their lungs. No reporter will interview frightened Iraqis about their fears at hearing that there are 138,000 armed Christians in their country belonging to t he same faith as the bomber, Rudolph, some of them from his stomping gro unds of Florida and North Carolina. Daniel Pipes will not write a column for the New York Post suggesting tha t white southern Christians be put in internment camps until it can be d etermined why they keep producing terrorists and antisemites. George W Bush will not issue a statement that "Christianity is a religio n of peace and we will not allow the Eric Rudolphs to hijack it for thei r murderous purposes." Frank Gaffney will not write a column for the Washington Post castigating the Republican Party for appeasement in surrendering to the terrorist t hreats of radical Christians, by now opposing reproductive rights. Max Boot will not point out that if the United States could only keep the Philippines in the early twentieth century by killing 400,000 Filipinos , than that was what needed to be done, and if the US can only beat back radical Christians by killing 400,000 of them, then that may just be ne cessary. Pat Buchanan will not write a column blasting King George III for having promoted the illegal immigration into the American south of criminal ele ments, whose maladjusted descendants are still making trouble.
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