{"id":18464,"date":"2012-07-12T02:13:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T05:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=18464"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:13:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:13:12","slug":"congressman-calls-for-investigation-of-radicalized-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/12\/congressman-calls-for-investigation-of-radicalized-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Calls for Investigation of Radicalized Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"

US House Rep Peter King (R-NY) recently held more hearings on “radical Islam,” to which Rep Al Green (D-Tx) wondered out loud why there weren’t hearings on “radical Christianity.”<\/a><\/p>\n

“I do not, not \u2014 N-O-T \u2014 oppose hearings on radicalization. I do oppose hearings that don\u2019t focus on the entirety of radicalization.<\/p>\n

And if you agree that we have Christians…who become radicalized…why not have a hearing on the radicalization of Christians?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He further explained:\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Why don\u2019t we go to the next step and ask, how is that a blue-eyed, blonde-haired, white female in the United States of America can become radicalized to the point of wanting to do harm to this country?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He’s right, of course.\u00a0 After the rash of violent attacks on the US and its military by blue-eyed, blonde-haired, white females, Congress should absolutely hold hearings on the matter.<\/p>\n

The only person the congressman mentioned during his 5-minute remarks was “Jihad Jane<\/a>,” who, he accurately conveyed, was blonde haired and blue eyed.\u00a0 But she wasn’t Christian — thus the “jihad” nickname — so Green’s point seemed to wander.<\/p>\n

The congressman had an unusually fatalistic conclusion:<\/p>\n

I look forward to the day that we\u2019ll have that hearing that deals with the radicalization of Christians in America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That would seem to say he looks forward to the day that radicalized Christians commit violent acts against the US, since that is what would precipitate such hearings.\u00a0 Probably not the best choice of words.<\/p>\n

Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, is quoted at OneNewsNow<\/a> saying:<\/p>\n

Well, Al Green is nuts.\u00a0 He [is] talking about something that’s essentially fictional. There are no Christians who are citing the Bible and using it to justify acts of violence and terrorism. There are Muslims all around the world citing the Quran and using it to justify acts of violence and terrorism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Spencer’s statement that there are “no Christians” using the Bible to justify violence might be too absolute, as someone could probably cite an example.\u00a0 Michael Griffin<\/a> and Scott Roeder<\/a> come to mind, for instance.<\/p>\n

That’s about where the similarity ends, however, so\u00a0there is some validity to the point.\u00a0 For example, contrary to claims by Michael Weinstein’s MRFF, there does not appear to have ever been a Christian-based violent attack against the US military, or even a publicized investigation of such an event.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By contrast, there have<\/em> been attacks and planned attacks on the US military motivated by Islam<\/a>, even from within the US military<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Likewise, more than 100 potential Islamic <\/em>threats had been investigated<\/a> within <\/em>the military community.<\/p>\n

For his part, Michael Weinstein chooses to focus on a faux “weaponized Christianity,” while he has virtually ignored real-life examples of “weaponized Islam” in the US military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US House Rep Peter King (R-NY) recently held more hearings on “radical Islam,” to which Rep Al Green (D-Tx) wondered out loud why there weren’t hearings on “radical Christianity.” “I do not, not \u2014 N-O-T \u2014 oppose hearings on radicalization. I do oppose hearings that don\u2019t focus on the entirety of radicalization. And if you agree that we have Christians…who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3391,96,44,3392,3399,85,2,5218,7,3390,10,171,3400],"class_list":["post-18464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-al-green","tag-christian","tag-islam","tag-jihad-jane","tag-michael-griffin","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-peter-king","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-scott-roeder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}