Islamic vs Christian Terrorists
by casey on Jul.19, 2005, under Political Maundering
What is the difference between Eric Rudolph and Mohamed Atta? One is a Christian terrorist that kills innocent people, and the other is an Islamic terrorist that kills innocent people. What about the difference between Stephen John Jordi and Ramzi Yousef?
According to the Bush philosophy, take the fight to the terrorists so they don’t attack us here, is this strictly limited to international Islamic terrorists? Does the war on terrorism differentiate between terrorists of different religions?
July 19th, 2005 on 4:44 pm
AMEN!!! NO PUN INTENDED, LOL
September 4th, 2005 on 3:26 am
I would agree that all people that kill innocent people for their so-called “cause” are terrorists, but I would be careful to legitimize(?) their religious affiliations. Just as mainstream followers of Islam do not support the views of their radical “brothers”, any “right-minded” christian follower would not consider the bombing of an abortion clinic to be alligned with the philosophies of their religion. These people “use” religion as a justification or to somehow support their cause, but they are hiding behind that religion and in fact acting against its practices. We can sentence U.S. citizens (and have) to life in prison for their offenses, but it is tough to sentence non-citizens for similar crimes. We have a judicial system to deal with our countries “ill-notioned” but we don’t have a handle on catching and sentencing “outsourced” terrorists – many whom are harbored or financed by various nation-states or organizations. This is a very loaded question and cannot be answered in black and white. Of course there is not a difference between killers of different “religions”, they are all murderers, but yes there is a difference on how “terrorists” must be dealt with depending on where they reside…