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Friday, April 13, 2007

Breakpoint: Are Christians Terrorists?

This story in today's Breakpoint was so outrageous I thought it had to be sensationalized, so I checked it out for myself.


[An] anti-terrorism drill was organized by the Burlington Township Police Department. According to the BURLINGTON COUNTY TIMES, the drill scenario described intruders as “members of a right-wing fundamentalist group called the ‘New Crusaders’ who do not believe in separation of church and state.” The storyline also says the mock terrorists were angry because the daughter of one gunman was expelled from school for praying in class. The drill “specified that two armed men invade the high school . . . shoot several students in the hallways, then barricade themselves in the media center with 10 student hostages.”
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These drills are more than troubling. They deliberately ignore reality: The killers who have struck at schools -- or who attempt to -- are either Islamic radicals or disturbed students who are angry at other students or teachers.
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Ironically, school districts probably stick the terrorism label on Christians in part because they are too afraid of what Islamic radicals may do if they dare suggest that Muslims might actually be the ones they have to worry about.
Here's the actual story from the Burlington County Times and local follow-up on the aftermath.

I guess rather than depict a group who might retailiate with an actual terrorist attack, it's safer to just slander Christians. For purposes of a drill, they could have made up an organization of ambiguous ethnicity or ideology. (The Symbionese Liberation Army could have fit that bill.) But they apparently really wanted religious terrorists, so to ensure a realistic reaction from the teachers' union, they chose the group that scares the living bejeebers out of liberals.

The irony of this is that the first Crusaders liberated Christian regions after Muslim invasions. "New Crusaders" could have been those who took on the terrorists of 9-11, or Beslan, or Columbine, or a fictitious hostage crisis.

But why not make a survival exercise an indoctrination as well? Black is white, up is down, and the most dangerous people in the world are really the most peaceful.

It’s another example of how openly those hostile to any forms of Christianity express their contempt.

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