{"id":2311,"date":"2016-07-08T18:30:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T16:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2016-07-08T18:31:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T16:31:45","slug":"here-are-8-christian-terrorist-organizations-that-equal-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/?p=2311","title":{"rendered":"Here are 8 Christian Terrorist Organizations That Equal ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2312\" src=\"http:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/terrorists.jpg\" alt=\"terrorists\" width=\"1200\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/terrorists.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/terrorists-250x131.jpg 250w, https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/terrorists-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/terrorists-1024x535.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/terrorists-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The right-wing is quick to condemn all of Islam like it\u2019s a singular entity, and hold every Muslim accountable for the actions of a handful bad apples. As I\u2019ve often said, no one religion \u2014 not even Buddhism \u2014 has the \u201cright\u201d to claim they\u2019re non-violent. Holy War is one of those things that cuts across all religions equally. And while you can point this out to right-wingers,\u00a0they won\u2019t listen: they\u2019re quick to invoke Boko Haram, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Al-Sheebab, or some other terrorist agency and pretend they\u2019re the sum total of all Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Well, there are Christian terrorist agencies that are just as scary, and some of them just as bad if not worse, than ISIS. A few of these you may have heard of, but since our so-called \u201cliberal media\u201d gets cold feet at naming Christian Terrorism what it is, some of them slip under the radar or aren\u2019t as associated with Christian terrorism as they should be in the popular imagination.<\/p>\n<h2>8. Lord\u2019s Resistance Army<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Active: <\/strong>1980s-Present, about 30 years<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5899005880328605\" data-ad-slot=\"2641303970\" data-adsbygoogle-status=\"done\"><ins id=\"aswift_2_expand\"><ins id=\"aswift_2_anchor\"><iframe id=\"aswift_2\" name=\"aswift_2\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/ins><\/ins><\/ins><\/div>\n<p><strong>Who are they?<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/community.seattletimes.nwsource.com\/archive\/?date=19960401&amp;slug=2321945\" target=\"_blank\">The Lord\u2019s Resistance Army<\/a> (LRA) is a Christian Fundamentalist terrorist group\u00a0originally from Uganda, but now active in the Sudan, the Central African Republic, and other places. Uganda, <a href=\"http:\/\/aattp.org\/american-evangelicals-are-quietly-supporting-deadly-anti-gay-legislation-in-uganda\/\" target=\"_blank\">you may remember<\/a>, is a <a href=\"http:\/\/aattp.org\/tea-partiers-rejoice-hateful-anti-gay-ugandan-elected-president-of-un-general-assembly\/\" target=\"_blank\">hotbed of Christian Fundamentalism<\/a>, so it makes sense that a group who calls themselves \u201cChristianist\u201d would come from the country. The LRA surfaced in the popular conscious sometime ago when Joesph Kony <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/parallels\/2014\/03\/25\/294315138\/joseph-kony-is-back-in-the-news-do-teenagers-still-care\" target=\"_blank\">suddenly became a meme on the internet<\/a>; up to that point, their main claim to fame is child sex slaves and children soldiers. Indeed, the LRA is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/africa\/2011\/10\/2011101418364196576.html\" target=\"_blank\">known to orchestrate kidnappings<\/a>, railroading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warchild.org.uk\/issues\/the-lords-resistance-army\" target=\"_blank\">young boys into fighting while forcing young girls into sexual slavery<\/a>. Those who refused to fight were hacked to pieces. The young girls are forced to be \u201cbrides\u201d for the soldiers, and thus helping to spread HIV. They\u2019re especially brutal towards civilians,\u00a0as well, wiping out entire villages and attacking refugee camps.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the LRA is pretty straight froward: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irinnews.org\/indepthmain.aspx?InDepthId=23&amp;ReportId=65772\" target=\"_blank\">they want a Bible-based state that uses the Ten Commandments as guide posts<\/a>. That\u2019s something any right-wing politician or Christianist can sympathize with, right?<\/p>\n<h2>7. Ku Klux Klan<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Active:\u00a0<\/strong>1860s-Present,\u00a0149 years<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who are they?<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/aattp.org\/arkansas-town-greets-people-with-pro-ku-klux-klan-billboard-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">These guys don\u2019t need any introduction<\/a>; every American knows who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/get-informed\/intelligence-files\/ideology\/ku-klux-klan\/the-ku-klux-klan-0\" target=\"_blank\">the\u00a0Invisible Empire<\/a> is. The Klan name probably comes from the Ancient Greek \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%CE%BA%CF%8D%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%82\" target=\"_blank\">\u03ba\u03cd\u03ba\u03bb\u03bf\u03c2<\/a>\u2018 (<em>kuklos<\/em>), which means \u201ccircle.\u201d There\u2019s a frightening overlap between White Supremacist ideology and Christian terrorism in the Western World, and the Klan is the tip of that iceberg. There\u2019ve actually been three Klans; the first one was formed in 1865, in Pulaski, and drew on former members of the Confederacy Army. They were a vigilante group, and they wore the sheets as a reminder of their fellow Confederates who died (think the classic \u201csheet ghost\u201d and you\u2019re not far off). Everything about the Klan is\u00a0geared towards terrorism and psychological war, from the uniform to the cross burning. And while it\u2019s true the Klan got <a href=\"http:\/\/historymatters.gmu.edu\/d\/5073\/\" target=\"_blank\">their start as an arm of the Democratic Party<\/a>, it was back when the Republicans were Theodore Roosevelt and not Sarah Palin, so I dare you to tell a modern Klansman they voted for Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>While the Klan started out hunting down and terrorizing freemen and women, that wasn\u2019t their sole target. The Klan is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/discover\/10.2307\/3788348?sid=21105816294373&amp;uid=2&amp;uid=3739808&amp;uid=3739256&amp;uid=4\" target=\"_blank\">far right-wing Protestant organization<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansaspress.ku.edu\/bakgos.html\" target=\"_blank\">being a Protestant organization<\/a>, they hate Catholics. As a result,\u00a0Klan has <a href=\"http:\/\/historymatters.gmu.edu\/d\/5073\/\" target=\"_blank\">targeted both Catholics and Jews<\/a> in the (<a href=\"http:\/\/aattp.org\/cnn-asks-can-the-klan-rebrand-after-kkk-leader-shoots-up-jewish-center\/\" target=\"_blank\">not-so-distant<\/a>) past. The KKK\u2019s history is so violent, in fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsidethebeltway.com\/al-qaeda-islam-kkk-to-protestantism\/\" target=\"_blank\">that many draw a comparison between the KKK and Al Qaeda<\/a>, although I think that\u2019s an unfair comparison, as I\u2019ll explain below.<\/p>\n<h2>6. National Liberation Front of Tripura<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Active:<\/strong> 1989 to present, about 30 years<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who are they?<\/strong> You\u2019ve probably heard of the Lord\u2019s Resistance Army and the KKK, but this is a group that I\u2019m pretty sure you haven\u2019t, unless you\u2019re from India. It\u2019s easy for us to forget, as Americans, just how\u00a0<em>big<\/em>\u00a0India is; it\u2019s far more diverse than Europe is, culturally speaking, and it\u2019s roughly the same size. It\u2019s called the \u201cworld\u2019s largest democracy\u201d for a reason, but as the United States shows, no democracy is without it\u2019s secessionists. And these folks are just some of the many secessionist organizations in India.<\/p>\n<p>According to their manifesto, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trackingterrorism.org\/group\/national-liberation-front-tripura-nlft\" target=\"_blank\">the NLFT wants<\/a> \u201d to expand the kingdom of God and Christ in Tripura,\u201d and often does so at the point of a gun. They threatened anyone <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/953200.stm\" target=\"_blank\">celebrating the Hindu Festival of Durga Puja with death<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/717775.stm\" target=\"_blank\">are backed by a Baptist Church that\u2019s selling them arms<\/a>. They\u2019ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/1000522\/the_east.htm#head6\" target=\"_blank\">orchestrated at least two massacres<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/4190570.stm\" target=\"_blank\">used rape as a tool of intimidation<\/a>. While the Nayanbasi faction has been shut down, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Liberation_Front_of_Tripura\" target=\"_blank\">Biswamohan faction has promised to fight on<\/a>. So here we have a Christian terrorist group\u00a0spreading their faith in India \u201cby sword,\u201d metaphorically, and at the point of a gun more prosaically \u2014 small wonder we haven\u2019t heard anything about them in the West, huh?<\/p>\n<h2>5. Antibalaka<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Active:<\/strong>\u00a01990s to present, about 25 years<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who are they?<\/strong> I\u2019ve cited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-25273681\" target=\"_blank\">the Central African Genocide<\/a> in at least two articles now; these are the militia behind that genocide. Their name means \u201canti-machete\u201d in the Sango and Mandja languages, and they first formed to <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/42131\/anti-balaka-central-african-republic\/\" target=\"_blank\">defend\u00a0Christians and Animists who were on the receiving end of politically motivated violence carried out by Muslims<\/a>. As these things often do, the tables turned, and now the Antibalaka is doing what right-wingers only\u00a0wish\u00a0they\u00a0could do: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/nov\/22\/central-african-republic-verge-of-genocide\" target=\"_blank\">ethnically cleanse their country of all Muslims.<\/a>\u00a0This includes children, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-25216351\" target=\"_blank\">who they\u2019ve targeted and murdered in the past<\/a>. Now, the Antibalaka now<a href=\"http:\/\/en.apa.az\/xeber_cafrica_militia_is_an_enemy_of_peace__f_206912.html\" target=\"_blank\">stand accused of crimes far worse<\/a> than anything that S\u00e9l\u00e9ka, the Muslim rebel group,\u00a0are guilty of.<\/p>\n<h2>4. Catholic Reaction Force\/Protestant Action Force<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Active:\u00a0<\/strong>1983\u00a0till 1994; at least 2002 for other groups using the CRF name;\u00a01970s till 1990s for PAF<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who are they?<\/strong> Really, anytime some claims that Christians aren\u2019t violent, all you have to do is direct them to Ireland. I could do a whole entry on what happened in North Ireland, beginning in the 1970s. Americans like to pretend that Eire is Guinness, the Blarney Stone, and leprechauns, but during the 1970s, religious violence a la the Thirty Years\u2019 War was painting the Emerald Isle ruby red. The Irish call this time period The Troubles, and that\u2019s an understatement if there ever was one.<\/p>\n<p>The Provisional IRA is perhaps the best known terrorist agency from the period and would definitely earn their spot on this list, if I weren\u2019t aiming for more obscure groups, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catholic_Reaction_Force\" target=\"_blank\">Catholic Reaction Force<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Protestant_Action_Group\" target=\"_blank\">Protestant Action Force<\/a>\u00a0were also active and, in the case of the latter, also responsible for a large number of murders. For those who are unfamiliar with the Troubles, it occurred in North Ireland and, as so many European conflicts do, pitted Protestants against Catholics in unmitigated bloodshed. The CRF was <a href=\"http:\/\/cain.ulst.ac.uk\/othelem\/chron\/ch83.htm#Nov\" target=\"_blank\">behind the Darkley killings<\/a>, in addition to several mailed bombings in the early 2000s. The PAF, which was far more effective in their killings, has a rap sheet a mile long. You can find it on the Wikipedia page,<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Protestant_Action_Group\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>3. The Orange Volunteers<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Active:<\/strong>\u00a0Early 1970s to\u00a0Present, about 40 years<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who are they:<\/strong>\u00a0We\u2019re staying in Ireland for this next group. Fans of science fiction probably remember the\u00a0<em>Orange Catholic Bible<\/em> from Frank Herbert\u2019s\u00a0<em>Dune<\/em>, but may never have understood why that name was so subversive, or why it was similar to Herbert\u2019s other Coca-Pepsi religious hybrids like Zensunni.\u00a0Orange is the color of Protestantism in Ireland, and green is the color of Catholicism; when you wear green on St. Patty\u2019s Day, you\u2019re proclaiming your Catholic heritage. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orange_Volunteers\" target=\"_blank\">The Orange Volunteers<\/a>, then, are a Protestant terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>The OV are Protestant Fundamentalist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orange_Volunteers#Timeline\" target=\"_blank\">responsible for a number of violent attacks in North Ireland<\/a>. While the police have been cracking down on the group, the group is still considered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.start.umd.edu\/tops\/terrorist_organization_profile.asp?id=79\" target=\"_blank\">to be active<\/a> and is still terrorizing Catholic citizens and hitting \u201csoft targets.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>2. The Aryan Nations<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Active:<\/strong> Unknown, to the Present<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who are they?<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cThe Aryan Nations\u201d is an umbrella agency that nets a large number of White and Christian Supremacist agencies ranging from certain breeds of Neo-Nazi to the KKK itself. It\u2019s heyday was in the 1980s and the 1990s, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/get-informed\/intelligence-files\/groups\/aryan-nations\" target=\"_blank\">when various White Nationalist groups would convene at the group\u2019s Idaho compound for their annual congress.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Aryan Nations got their start in the Christian Identity movement,\u00a0but has since fractured into no fewer than three factions, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/03\/29\/schuster.column\/\" target=\"_blank\">one faction even looking to buddy-buddy with Al-Qaeda in 2005<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phineas_Priesthood\" target=\"_blank\">The Phineas Priesthood is another branch<\/a>, and they\u2019ve <a href=\"http:\/\/aattp.org\/homegrown-american-extremist-tea-partier-who-shot-up-austin-also-member-of-christian-hate-group\/\" target=\"_blank\">made headlines here on AATTP before<\/a>. The last faction is the Aryan Nation Revival, which holds to their Christian Identity heritage like small-town Conservatives cling to their guns and Bibles.<\/p>\n<h2>1. The Christian Identity Movement<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Active:<\/strong> 1920\/1930s to Present, about 95 years<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who are they?<\/strong> When you\u2019re dealing with White Nationalism and White Supremacy in the United States, it\u2019s turtles all the way down, but you can almost certainly find God at the top of the heap. That\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.adl.org\/learn\/ext_us\/christian_identity.html?xpicked=4&amp;item=Christian_ID\" target=\"_blank\">what the Christian Identity Movement is<\/a>; it\u2019s not necessarily an organization so much as it is a loose affiliation of organizations like the Aryan Nations.<\/p>\n<p>The Christian Identity Movement is a very weird movement; they actually have hostile relations with Evangelicals and other charismatic Protestants \u2014 not because they\u2019re racist bigots, no; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/get-informed\/intelligence-files\/ideology\/christian-identity\" target=\"_blank\">it\u2019s because the CIM is Post-Millennial<\/a>, where the vast majority of Evangelicals are Pre-Millennial. This distinction is lost on anyone who hasn\u2019t studied the Scofield-Derby Heresies, but the basic idea is that the Tribulation has already occurred and the goal is to build up the world to the second coming. Their theology is just as skewed, though; for instance, members of the CIM believe <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=r5BzY2eeyngC&amp;pg=PA68&amp;dq=%22christian+identity%22+%22no+soul%22+pre-adamic&amp;num=100#v=onepage&amp;q=%22christian%20identity%22%20%22no%20soul%22%20pre-adamic&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">that non-Caucasians don\u2019t have souls<\/a>, and therefore, can\u2019t be saved.<\/p>\n<p>The CIM is made up of various Christian terrorist organizations, like Americans Promise Ministries, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/get-informed\/intelligence-files\/groups\/americas-promise-ministries\" target=\"_blank\">who are responsible for terrorist attacks and bank robberies<\/a>;\u00a0the aforementioned Aryan Nations; the Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord; the Oklahoma Constitution Militia; and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2002_Soweto_bombings\" target=\"_blank\">the\u00a0South African Groups that were behind the 2002 Soweto bombings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This group is why I consider the comparison between the KKK and Al-Qaeda to be unfair. The CIM is a worldwide movement, with adherents across the Commonwealth and former-Commonwealth Countries, as well as the United States, and is responsible for ideologically motivated terrorism. This, I think, makes the Christian Identity Movement a much better comparison to Al-Qaeda than the KKK.<\/p>\n<h2>So this is it?<\/h2>\n<p>Nope. There are hundreds more. I mentioned a few of them in the article \u2014 the Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord, the Oklahoma Constitution Militia, and the Provisional IRA are just a few who didn\u2019t get entries but deserve noting anyway. By now it should be apparent to anyone watching that Christian Terrorism is a thing, it exists, and it\u2019s just as bad and widespread as Islamic Terrorism. The only difference between Christian Terrorism and Islamic terrorism is that Christian Terrorism never makes the evening news.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>source<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/aattp.org\/here-are-8-christian-terrorist-organizations-that-equal-isis\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The right-wing is quick to condemn all of Islam like it\u2019s a singular entity, and hold every Muslim accountable for the actions of a handful bad apples. As I\u2019ve often said, no one religion&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,4,153],"tags":[102,13,105],"class_list":["post-2311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comparative-religion","category-about-islam","category-religious-studies-and-research","tag-christianity","tag-islam-2","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2315,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions\/2315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}