{"id":5507,"date":"2011-08-02T01:27:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T08:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5507"},"modified":"2011-08-02T01:27:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T08:27:28","slug":"is-breivik-a-christian-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/02\/is-breivik-a-christian-terrorist\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Breivik a Christian Terrorist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many on the right are claiming that Breivik could not be a Christian terrorist, because what he did was not a Christian act.  In a way I agree with them, in spite of their complete hypocrisy, but it\u2019s not that simple.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"2Breivik\"In the wake of mass murder in Norway by a young man who hearkened to the Christian crusades and calls himself a cultural Christian \u2013 many ordinary people of faith were horrified to find Anders Behring Breivik described as a \u201cChristian terrorist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether that title applies to Mr. Breivik is a suddenly awkward issue \u2013 partly lembecause it raises the question about a fast and loose use of \u201cMuslim\u201d or \u201cIslamic\u201d to name those who commit violence in the name of their faith<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

While European media seem disinterested in Breivik\u2019s Christian self-definition or the terminology used to describe him, in the US and Muslim media worlds it is a sprawling debate. It was hyped by Bill O\u2019Reilly on Fox News who found it an \u201coutrage\u201d to call Breivik a Christian terrorist; Mr. O\u2019Reilly responded to some reports that early on took Breivik\u2019s statements about his Christianity at face value. <\/p>\n

But the Fox talk show host and some others have denied that Muslims who commit violence should be treated by the same rules<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Christian Science Monitor<\/a>><\/p>\n

The problem here is not Christianity or Islam, as both religions condemn killing the innocent.  The problem is that right-wing extremists have abused both religions to further their political agendas.  Breivik is no more Christian than the Republican Supply-side pseudo Christians here.<\/font><\/p>\n

Because of his racist beliefs, and his group\u2019s connections to the Koch-funded AFP, perhaps he should be called the Teabagger Terrorist.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many on the right are claiming that Breivik could not be a Christian terrorist, because what he did was not a Christian act.  In a way I agree with them, in spite of their complete hypocrisy, but it\u2019s not that simple. In the wake of mass murder in Norway by a young man who hearkened […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}