Quote Originally Posted by Total_Blender View Post
Fugitive Eric Robert Rudolph was aided and abetted for YEARS by his supporters.

http://www.adl.org/PresRele/Teror_92/4264_72.htm

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"What some hatemongers and extremists are saying is, this person is a hero whose crusade against abortion and the government is noble and praiseworthy," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. "What is even more troubling is that some of the chatter is calling for violence or lone-wolf acts to be carried out in Rudolph's name. Others are using the arrest as an excuse to spread twisted conspiracy theories about Jews. As we have seen in the past, this can be a dangerous mix." [/article]



You might say that the people who applaud these guys as "heroes" are on the lunatic fringe and aren't really relevant to, or representative of, mainstream American Christianity. And you'd be right, for the most part. Most X-ians are not extremists. Not all X-ians agree with each other, there are sects that with varied practices and varied degrees of orthodoxy.

And neither are Osama, Al Qaeda, Hamas, etc relevant to or representative of the entire religion of Islam. They are the lunatic fringe of that religion just as Rudolph is the lunatic fringe of Christianity. Most all Muslim Americans have denounced terrorism, continuously since 9/11. Sending the message to Muslims that "we don't want you here" or "your practice of your religion is disrespectful to me" will push Muslims in the US more in the direction of radicalism because it will validate all the anti-American propaganda coming from the terrorists.

You say the OK City attacks were not religiously motivated, but what about Eric Robert Rudolph's bombing the Olympics? That had EVERYTHING to do with religion. He even signed the letters claiming responsibility for his bombings with the phrase "Army of God":

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/05/31/rud...ile/index.html

[article]Rudolph and his family were connected with the Christian Identity movement, a militant, racist and anti-Semitic organization that believes whites are God's chosen people.

Rudolph's mother, Patricia, spent time with Nord Davis, a Christian Identity ideologue who built a walled compound called Northpoint in the Nantahala community. Davis wrote propaganda decrying a "New World Order" that he claimed was controlled by Jews, and he advocated killing gays and those who engaged in mixed-race relationships. [/article]

So suppose some moderate X-ian sect that repeatedly denounced Rudolph and advocated tolerance wanted to build a church near Centennial Olympic park. Would you be outraged about that?


You want to compare neo nazi's response to Rudolph to the Libyan President meeting and hugging al Megrahi? Is that really as good as you can find?