Terrorism Is A Part Of All Religions

Today is the day that the fear mongers in America get their biggest wish. And it isn't even an action that took place here in the United States. The event that I am talking about is the Canadian Soldier shot in Ottawa. The fact that a soldier was shot guarding the National War Memorial isn't the biggest news to them. It is that the person who shot the soldier is a Canadian citizen that recently converted to Islam. A home grown terrorist.

Given that we are in the final stretch of the 2014 elections, I can see the political ads already.

Candidate X is willing to allow terrorists to cross our borders because they will not allow the authorities to keep the terrorists out.

Candidate Y cut Spending on the border patrol and the terrorists are flooding across our borders ready to attack.

And you know the one thing that you aren't going to hear from any politician though? This is the act of a single person and does not represent what the religion of Islam teaches. To say the previous sentence is political suicide. It shouldn't be, but it is. Why is that? Because we Americans have demonized any religion that is not what we believe is mainstream Catholicism. Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and many more religions have been looked down upon from Catholics that populate the country. Why? Because we Americans are arrogant and we know exactly what is best for everybody else. Even if we have no clue what their circumstances are.

But this isn't an argument about religion or which religion is correct. This is an argument against what we are going to hear in the coming weeks. We are going to hear that we need to protect our borders even more than we do, that new restrictions on American's personal freedoms need to be enacted, and that the terrorists are infiltrated our country and will pop up in every state to start killing who they see as infidels.



Michael Joseph Hall is already identified as a terrorist. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said so. And he is someone that according to the narrative over the past 20 years is a terrorist. He is a recent convert to a non-Christian religion. He has had a gripe about foreign policy of his nation. He was considered high-risk for going overseas and committing crimes there. So his passport had been revoked by the authorities. It looks like a nice little ball of facts and a terrorist that has been identified and just attacked before he could be taken down by the authorities.

But the one thing that bothers me is the fact that a terrorist is looked at because of their religion. Timothy McVeigh was a terrorist. Not according to most people, but damn it, he was a Christian terrorist. Frank Silva Rokue was a terrorist. You know, the guy who decided to kill the Shik people in Wisconsin 2 years ago. How about Scott Roeder? The man who killed Dr. George Tiller. Roeder killed the doctor because of his religious beliefs. Shouldn't he be described as a Christian terrorist? How about those who have made doctors who perform abortions, which is a guaranteed constitutional right, fearful that one day a Christian religious zealot will kill them or their family? Shouldn't they be classified as terrorists?

Let's take the Olympic Park Bomber, Eric Rudolph for an example. He killed one person and injured over 100 other people with that little act of terrorism. Of course, he bombed abortion clinics, but that isn't terrorism according to most Americans. He bombed a lesbian bar in Atlanta as well. Gay people deserve to die, that is the mantra for lots of right-wing Christian groups. The Army of God, a right-wing Christian group still reveres Rudolph as a brave Christian who was doing God's work.

I am not excusing Michael Joseph Hall for what he did today. In fact, radical Islam is gaining more followers because it is always easier to get people to follow you when you are against the same things that they are. It is just that at the current time, radical Islam gets the 24 hour a day, 7 days a week exposure from the media. And the media will always point out the bad stuff. When you become so set in your beliefs and everything else is wrong, you cannot or will not conform with societal laws. You become outside the law when that happens. I think that is what is happening with radical Islam and the Christian sects here in America. You gather followers because of hate and mistrust, and when they decide that violence is the answer for what they perceive as wrongs, you have your terrorist.

So when you hear about how the terrorists are trying to get into our borders, laugh at that notion. They are already here. It might not be that lady with the Burrka on though. It could be that guy with the Mom tattoo and the Cross on a necklace that is the terrorist that is willing to go to extremes to get his point across. And even if Fox News or the mainstream media won't identify them as terrorists because they are members of the Christian faith. Remember what the definition of word Terrorism is:
The use of violence or the threat of violence, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political goals.

Yes, Islamic groups have committed terrorism, but guess what. Christian groups here in America are more likely to commit a terrorist act here on American soil than those who follow Islam.  In order to fight terrorism, we need to call a terrorist, a terrorist. No matter what religion they come from.