{"id":37154,"date":"2016-11-03T00:30:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T03:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=37154"},"modified":"2016-11-03T01:14:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T04:14:40","slug":"sentencing-in-thwarted-terror-attack-but-christians-are-the-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/03\/sentencing-in-thwarted-terror-attack-but-christians-are-the-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentencing in Thwarted Terror Attack, but Christians are the Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Blair <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/kansas-man-accused-in-failed-army-base-bomb-plot-sentenced-1.434663\">has been sentenced<\/a> to 15 months in prison for assisting in what he believed was an <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2016\/02\/24\/attempted-terrorist-attack-in-kansas-goes-little-noticed\/\">attempt to bomb<\/a> a US military base in Kansas:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He was accused of loaning $100 to 21-year-old John T. Booker Jr. to store what they thought was an explosive device; prosecutors said Booker intended to detonate it outside Fort Riley in northeast Kansas in support of the Islamic State group. The device was a fake bomb built by FBI informants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Blair is said to have Williams syndrome, which reportedly makes him &#8220;susceptible&#8221; to manipulation &#8212; but does not prevent him from understanding right and wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Booker, as you may recall, was <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2016\/02\/24\/attempted-terrorist-attack-in-kansas-goes-little-noticed\/\">arrested as he was trying to arm<\/a> what he believed was a 1,000 pound car bomb outside Fort Riley. Booker had actually started the enlistment process to join the US Army &#8212; a process that was terminated when the FBI found out he expressed a desire to emulate Nidal Malik Hasan.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting <!--more-->perspective on the social conversation right now:<\/p>\n<p>Two men are arrested and charged with an <em>actual<\/em> (if fake, unknown to them), <strong>executed<\/strong> attempt to kill US Soldiers by planting a bomb in Kansas. Booker was explicitly <strong>motivated by Islamic extremism<\/strong>. Amazingly, few seem to notice or care, and certainly no one made any claims about Muslims in the US military being a threat to their fellow troops, even knowing Booker tried to enlist to\u00a0launch an\u00a0&#8220;insider attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, another group of men planned a bombing of a Muslim-majority apartment complex, also in Kansas. They had no recent connection to the military or Christianity &#8212; yet Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein tried to <strong>turn the incident into an indictment of &#8220;Christianity&#8221; in the US military<\/strong>. Weinstein actually claimed <em>the US military<\/em> is going to <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2016\/10\/21\/mikey-weinsteins-attempt-to-equate-us-military-with-domestic-terrorists-backfires\/\">bring on &#8220;carnage&#8221;<\/a> because of Christianity. As is his <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2016\/11\/01\/is-mikey-weinstein-really-a-usafa-honor-graduate\/\">standard<\/a>, Weinstein provided no evidence to support his claim, but, amazingly, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/articles\/why-does-our-military-support-deplorable-crusader-unit-names-imagery\">Military Times carried<\/a> his anti-Christian diatribe as an opinion editorial.<\/p>\n<p>Again, <strong>actual Islamic terrorists<\/strong> attempt to kill Americans on American soil and no one seems to care &#8212; and certainly no Muslims are belittled as a result.<\/p>\n<p>A man claims <strong>fictional Christian &#8220;sectarianism&#8221;<\/strong> in the US military causes &#8220;<strong>exactly&#8230;this kind of terroristic behavior<\/strong>&#8220;, and he&#8217;s given a platform to spout his hate and bigotry.<\/p>\n<p>If he claimed that public displays associated with\u00a0Judaism were going to cause &#8220;carnage&#8221;, would he be so easily granted a platform for his anti-Semitic rage?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost as if its socially acceptable to bash Christians.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Blair has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for assisting in what he believed was an attempt to bomb a US military base in Kansas: He was accused of loaning $100 to 21-year-old John T. Booker Jr. to store what they thought was an explosive device; prosecutors said Booker intended to detonate it outside Fort Riley in northeast [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5892,88,96,4468,44,39,5478,1494,85,2,5218,7,1431],"class_list":["post-37154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-alexander-blair","tag-army","tag-christian","tag-fort-riley","tag-islam","tag-jewish","tag-john-booker","tag-kansas","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-nidal-malik-hasan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37154","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=37154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}