Re: NPR fires Williams over Muslim fears » GetReligion

> This is false, Paul.  And often, the lone nuts get financial support.  There
> are fundraisers for people who shoot doctors, blow up clinics and so on.
> The guy who shot Dr. Tiller may have been a lone nut, but it is dishonest to
> suggest he functioned in a lone vaccuum.  Pro-life groups showed up to
> support him at trial.

I'm not suggesting that anyone functions in a vacuum. There always
have been and always will be small pockets of wackos (not necessarily
categorized by faith) that foster extreme viewpoints. My point is that
these are not highly-organized, well-funded, international
organizations with powerful sympathizers, which are dedicated to
violence against non-believers. That's a difference, and a big one.

> Then there is the National Liberation Front of Tripura (India), which has
> advocated killing Hindus (and their children).  They get money from
> Tripura's Baptist Church.

See above.

> The KKK saw themselves as explicitly a Christian
> organization. Russian National Unity is tied to a bombing of a US
> Consulate, as well as several murders.  Or Uganda's The Lord's Resistance
> Army.
>
> There is violence perpetrated by Christians that is organized and not a lone
> nut variety.  They exist.  Are any of those likely current threats to
> Americans?  Outside of the Lord's Army (which advocates the killing of
> clinic workers and doctors)?  Probably not.  But Christian led violence is
> not the case of a couple nuts.

I think we're talking past each other here. I would categorize all of
the above as "a couple of nuts." Local troublemakers pooping in their
own backyard. That has always happened, and it always will. I'm
talking about a global threat to peace and progress.

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