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 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 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, 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 .
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:
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. 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.”
Eastern Lightning’s other acts of
violence 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 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.
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—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 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 (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 (mainly in the Pacific Northwest).
On November 28, 2014, Phineas Priesthood
member Larry Steven McQuilliams went on
a violent rampage 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.

http://www.salon.com/2015/04/07/6_modern_day_christian_terrorist_groups_our_media_conveniently_ignores_partner/

Lalastica don't ignore this post just need nairalander Christian to understand this fact and stop calling Muslim terror in any BokoHaramm thread

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 because they suspected them of plotting terrorist attacks against Muslims. One likely target, according to Israeli police, was Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque —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). In 2008, Denver’s KUSA-TV (an NBC affiliate) reported that members of the Concerned Citizens had gone into hiding and that Miller hadn’t been seen in ten years.

[b] Christian terrorism Christian terrorism comprises terrorist acts by groups or individuals who cite motivations or goals that they interpret to be Christian, or within a more basic context of sectarian violence and/or prejudices such as religious intolerance .[citation needed ] As with other forms of religious terrorism, they have cited interpretations of tenets of their faith to justify the terrorism.[1] Global ideologies See also: Anti-abortion violence , Christian Patriot movement and Christian Identity movement Christian Identity was a loosely affiliated global group of churches and individuals devoted to a racialized theology which asserts that North European whites are the direct descendants of the lost tribes of Israel, God's chosen people . It has been associated with groups such as the Aryan Nations , Aryan Republican Army, Army of God, Phineas Priesthood , and The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord . It has been cited as an influence on a number of terrorist attacks around the world, including the 2002 Soweto bombings .[2][3][4][5] Historical Gunpowder Plot Main article: Gunpowder Plot The early modern period in Britain saw religious conflict resulting from the Reformation and the introduction of Protestant state churches. [6] The 1605 Gunpowder Plot was a failed attempt by a group of English Catholics including Guy Fawkes to assassinate King James I , and to blow up the Palace of Westminster, the English seat of government. According to Vahabph D. Aghai, "The beginnings of modern terrorism can be traced back to England and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605." [7] Although the modern concept of religious terrorism had not yet come into use in the 17th century, David C. Rapoport and Lindsay Clutterbuck point out that the Plot, with its use of explosives, was an early precursor to 19th century anarchist terrorism. [8] Sue Mahan and Pamala L. Griset classify the plot as religious terrorism, writing that "Fawkes and his colleagues justified their actions in terms of religion." [9] Peter Steinfels also characterizes this plot as a notable case of religious terrorism.[10] Pogroms See also: Religious persecution and Ethnic cleansing Orthodox Christian movements in Romania, such as the Iron Guard and Lăncieri, which have been characterized by Yad Vashem and Stanley G. Payne as anti-semitic and fascist , respectively, were responsible for involvement in the Bucharest pogrom, and political murders during the 1930s. [11][12] [13][14] (p37) [15] Ku Klux Klan Main article: Ku Klux Klan Ku Klux Klan with a burning cross The End. Victoriously slaying Catholic influence in the U.S. Illustration by Rev. Branford Clarke from Klansmen: Guardians of Liberty 1926 by Bishop Alma White, published by the Pillar of Fire Church in Zarephath, NJ . After the American Civil War of 1861– 1865, members of the Protestant -led [16] Ku Klux Klan (KKK) organization began engaging in arson , beatings, destruction of property, lynching , murder , rape , tar-and- feathering , whipping and intimidation via such means as cross burning. They targeted African Americans, Jews , Catholics , and other social or ethnic minorities. Klan members had an explicitly Christian terrorist ideology, basing their beliefs in part on a "religious foundation" in Christianity. [17] The goals of the KKK included, from an early time onward, an intent to "reestablish Protestant Christian values in America by any means possible", and they believed that "Jesus was the first Klansman." [18] From 1915 onward, Klansmen conducted cross-burnings not only to intimidate targets, but also to demonstrate their respect and reverence for Jesus Christ, and the ritual of lighting crosses was steeped in Christian symbolism, including making prayer and singing Christian hymns. [19] Within Christianity the Klan directed hostilities against Catholics. Modern Klan organizations, such as the Knights Party, USA, continue to focus on the Christian supremacist message, detecting a "war" which allegedly aims to destroy "western Christian civilization." [20] Contemporary According to terrorism expert David C. Rapoport , a "religious wave", or cycle, of terrorism dates from approximately 1979 to the present. [21][/b] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism Contd reading

@op dis ur long epistle is jst history of demented people. Update to 2014--2015, pls.

Noted

That Spanish Inquisition tho,whenever I read about it and saw how millions of muslims were massacred by christians,I remember it was instigated by queen isabella of spain and one king 4rm portugal.
Mosques were either burnt down or converted to cathedrals.Muslims were killed,forcefully converted to xtianity or exiled 4rm spain at that time.
One of d reasons why these horrible things happened is the infighting and division among the muslim rulers in spain at that period.
Spain was under Islamic rule for many centuries and prospers in every facets of life,especially education,architecture and science.
Cordoba,seville,madrid were major cities for knowledge and science then,but d only city that still have indigenous Islamic followers today is cordoba,despite all d xtians terrorism visited on them centuries ago.

bigiyaro:
@op dis ur long epistle is jst history of demented people. Update to 2014--2015, pls.

Soon or later this also will become history if the media stop reporting... Reporting how BokoHaramm operate everyday is just giving them more power that they are working..

Axis313:
That Spanish Inquisition tho,whenever I read about it and saw how millions of muslims were massacred by christians,I remember it was instigated by queen isabella of spain and one king 4rm portugal.
Mosques were either burnt down or converted to cathedrals.Muslims were killed,forcefully converted to xtianity or exiled 4rm spain at that time.
One of d reasons why these horrible things happened is the infighting and division among the muslim rulers in spain at that period.
Spain was under Islamic rule for many centuries and prospers in every facets of life,especially education,architecture and science.
Cordoba,seville,madrid were major cities for knowledge and science then,but d only city that still have indigenous Islamic followers today is cordoba,despite all d xtians terrorism visited on them centuries ago.

More grease to your elbow always happy when I meet nairalander with a great significant IQ.. Seun we need your attention please don't be biased since lalastica don't want to move this thread.. Nairalander ve more guest let them also learn.. I should have written this myself but nairalander will always ask for source.

Amastermovic:


Soon or later this also will become history if the media stop reporting... Reporting how BokoHaramm operate everyday is just giving them more power that they are working..

i wish naija media will know dat terrorists r demented attention seeking bigots,once dia activities r nt givin any aoita of attention excerpt in law enforcement circles,dey will fade rapidly.

bigiyaro:
i wish naija media will know dat terrorists r demented attention seeking bigots,once dia activities r nt givin any aoita of attention excerpt in law enforcement circles,dey will fade rapidly.

Think of it without all this stories their business will not move fine but when it makes headline people will want to buy... Business strategy