It's obvious that political correctness and fears over a fanatical response by conservative politicians, activists, and right-wing media has till now largely prevented a discussion of religiously inspired violence by our nation's more fundamentalist Christians.
Though the logic and policies of the "war on terroism", with its disturbing but commonplace neo-fascist language has become popular on the right and easily applies to the hard-core evangelical Christians who use religion to sanction and committ violence, maybe we should avoid labelling people terrorists. It too easily follows the Orwellian logic peddled by, yet to be convicted war criminals, Bush, Cheney, Edington, Yoo, et. al.
Terrorists are desperately hoping our nation overracts to their violence, but if we maintain respect for our nation's democratic institutions, with no military detentions of civilians, and not expecting a militarized response to solve this challenge, than we will avoid serving Al Qaeda through a fearful overreaction.
As a thought expirement, what if the hard-core right's militant, neo-fascist logic of the "war on terroism", were applied to Christian "terrorists" as it has been applied until now so selectively to Muslims?
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