[Video from CBS 47]
We've been getting lots of confirmation lately that, contrary to the claims undergirding Rep. Peter King's Islamophobic witch-hunt hearing, the greatest domestic-terrorism threat to average Americans is not from homegrown Islamic radicals, but from the same singular source of domestic terrorism we've had to deal with for more than a generation: the radical right.
David Holthouse at Media Matters directs us to the most recent 'isolated incident':
Compared to the political theater of the King hearings, these busts of accused right-wing domestic terrorists received scant media attention. Even less publicized was the arrest, also on March 9, of another accused right-wing extremist who allegedly firebombed a Planned Parenthood clinic and vandalized an Islamic center in Madera, California.
The case of Donny Eugene Mower further illustrates the narrow-mindedness of Rep. King and his conservative media cheerleaders for focusing on Muslim domestic terrorists to the exclusion of all other violent extremists, including white supremacists, militia members and anti-abortion radicals.
According to the federal criminal complaint against Mower, he admitted to throwing a Molotov cocktail through the window of the Planned Parenthood clinic in the middle of the night last September 2. No one was injured, but the damage was extensive.
Mower left a note at the scene: "Murder our children? We have a 'choice' too. Let's see if you can burn as well as your victims." The note was signed "ANB," short for American Nationalist Brotherhood. The same entity had claimed responsibility for menacing letters posted outside the Madera Islamic Center.
The first of those messages appeared last August 18: "No temple for the God of terrorism at Ground Zero. ANB." At the time Fox News and others were feverishly manufacturing outrage at the supposed "Ground Zero mosque" in New York City.
Two days later, according to investigators, Mower threw a brick at the Islamic center, causing minor damage, and then returned his focus to the Planned Parenthood clinic, posting another threat: "Murdering children? That is your choice? Reap your reward. ANB."
On August 24, another message appeared at the Islamic center: "Wake up America. The enemy is here. ANB."
The ANB, like a number of hate groups, really is just an army of one -- Mower himself. He wrote a manifesto outlining his ideology:
ANB is AMERICAN nationalist, not white nationalist, black nationalist, or any other racist motivated group. The signs posted, the things to come, and yes even the brick, are not hate motivated, but rather messages. The (sic) are the voices of us who refuse to allow America to continue to be torn down brick by brick. Notice also, that the mosque was not the only target of choice. We are here to revive American pride, which has been dampened by a lot of things: The rise of Islam in America, despite 9/11; the sickening number of murdered children since 1973, hidden behind the guise of "abortion" or "choice"; the abomination of homosexuality being rewarded, while those who chose (sic) natural relationships are bigots. These and so many more are (sic) the hate crimes, they hit America with a sucker punch... isn't it time that someone hit back?
Sadly, the lack of attention to this problem -- or our blase acceptance of it --- has even led people like Bill Maher to speciously contend that homegrown Islamic terrorism presents a much greater threat than any other kind of homegrown terrorism. I honestly don't know why he thinks that. These are really the same kind of people except for the fact that they are being radicalized for similar purposes by Americans instead of foreigners.
There are reasons why these things crop up at times of great social transition and stress. And that's worth looking into and attempting to deal with. But those who are pretending that it's a"foreign problem" are coming to the point of being culpable. After all, when the department of Homeland Security merely noted the potential of a problem in their annual report, the right wing didn't distance itself from these radicals, it sprung into gear and basically shut the report down. Cui bono?
but as long as we allow the right to frame the argument, Christians will remain immune from any criticism.
I've heard more than one Christian fascist argue the way to defeat Islamic extremism is to convert everyone to Christianity. (What's the difference??)
As an athiest, I see all religions as backwards cults, and the radical Christians are the ones that have power in this country, so they pose a far greater threat to this country than radical muslims. Personally, I think all religion sucks
These latest attacks are just more examples of Christian fascists using their backwards cultish beliefs as an excuse to commit violence.
"Flight of the Phoenix."
republican brotherhood change their name to the American Nationalist Brotherhood? It's so hard to keep up. You all have to agree that their goals are the same.
Rebranding is annoying.
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
"Unfortunately it's not the Wild West, where you can clean up the streets with a gun. Even though sometimes that's exactly what's needed." - Shooter (2007 film)
my 'Merican pride certainly feels revived! How 'bout you? Did This Sick POS really work for a school District? tell me please...Not with Kids......
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
That about says it all, eh?
This is the scenario Dr. Altemeyer, (and many others) have warned us about, in his 1996 book "The Authoritarian Specter".
And as I often refer to this groundbreaking research, it does show that religious fundamentalism is a major factor in these peoples decision making process, as well as the major source of their Authority to commit these cowardly acts of violence.
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/
I always thought the fundamental message of Jesus was to help the poor, feed the hungry, and aid the sick- plus he had utter condemnation of wealth-
('It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of needle than for a rich man to get into heaven")
Yet these Republican Christians hover between distain and indifference for the poor, hungry and sick, and see wealth as the most important thing in the world.
So.....why do they worship Jesus?
They reject him as a philosopher, yet worship him as a God....
I told a Republican Christian I know that if he truly loved Christ, he should be out there helping the poor and the hungry- and this guy actually insisted 'Jesus wanted us to lift ourselves up by our bootstraps'.
He was quoting Billo word for word, very sad.....
It's a sad thing when athiests have a greater understanding and respect for the teachings of Jesus Christ than Christians.
And Islam is a religion of peace. With rare exceptions those who are most fundamentalist have the least understanding - often due to two factors:
1. Illiteracy. Many poor and disenfranchised who have no access to proper education rely on the advice of others and emotions to understand the world around them. Sadly, fear is a strong emotion and charlatans love to prey on the less fortunate. THe Prosperity Gospel is one of the key tools these people use to manipulate the poor and desperate now days.
2. Overcompensation: Many who feel their life is lacking in substance will turn to the grand ideas of religious superiority that comes from being a part of the "right" sect. This sense of belonging does not require an actual understanding of what one has joined (and often such knowledge is condemned) but comes from the acceptance of an authoritarian figure who repeatedly tells you that your individual life is of utmost importance to the supreme being who is responsible for all things and your actions can make or break said deity's entire scheme.
Whether it was my time in the Catholic church, my visits to numerous cults from new age metaphysical healers to the Branch Davidians I've found the same needs in all devout and often the same outcomes - the consensual theft of money, property and/or freedom from the follower to the leadership.
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
Janet Napolitano never should have caved to republican intimidation.
Time for her to issue the wing-nut terror warning again.
The republicans are psycho, and should not be appeased. Democrats have to face facts and just ignore them. They are destroying the nation, and it's morally irresponsible of the Democrats to let them.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Reslugs gladly welcome all kinds to mentally deranged, terrorists in their sick party.
Who says Democrats are the only big tent party?
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
I would love to see somebody start keeping a running tally of these "isolated Incidents", with a statistic outlining the perps rationale for his actions. Maybe then, someone, somewhere, might start paying attention to the sources (coughFockSpewscough) of these triggers.and take responsible action to shut them down.
a pretty good list with a description of each event.
Madera County, I'm very very glad that they've made an arrest in this case. We have a lot of right-wing crazies in the San Joaquin Valley, and I'm saddened to admit that we will probably become the face of domestic terrorism as far as California is concerned.
Muslims in Bakersfield for instance are already routinely subject to harrassment because their mosque is not big enough, and the people have to spill out onto a local park where they are subjected to heckling while they try to pray.
As for Planned Parenthood, it's already really hard for women and girls in the San Joaquin Valley to get abortions when we need one (I'd have to travel 90 miles to Fresno if I needed one), this group and other anti-choice people want to make it even harder. And of course while they're at it they want to make getting contraceptives harder to get too, as well as WIC and food stamps for the numerous young mothers we have in the Valley as a result of unplanned pregnancies and restricted access to contraceptives and abortions.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
when the Weather Underground was used to discredit the entire peace movement? Their insanities were never referred to as isolated incidences. How about the SLA - truly a cult of less than a dozen people who were all over the news for years? Only the right is given a pass on violence. One of these days it's going to bite the 'libural media' right in the ass.
Official statement from Bill O'Reilly: Move along, nothing to see.
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These Right Wing lunatics all must to be put away for good, unfortunately we don't have enough prisons to hold all the wing-nut terrorists in the GOP.
The FK'N Reslugs don't want abortions, but then the morons defund planned parenthood that absolutely helps prevent many, many, pregnancies with birth control. The idiot Reslugs can't have it both ways.
with a broad range of interests. Nothing more boring than single issue crazy.
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When Napolitano correctly ID'd the radical right as a source of domestic terrorism, the FOX noise machine and its dick-suckers screamed like stuck pigs. So how does the Obama Adm respond? It walks back the charge, so as to make Hugs and Cuddles with the vipers.
I've had it with these spineless turds.
Christianity. What a damnable disgrace.
Peter King has got his work cut out for him. He has to add radical Christians to the radical Muslims that he wants to investigate. I'm sure he'll get right on it. And Fox will be happy to cooperate in any way.
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Peter King is a IRA terrorist himself. He should investigate himself. Then he should put himself in prison.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Especially due to the fact that the IRA has ties to the PLO and Hamas.
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds--Bob Marley
makes people do some crazy shit. Those darn "fundamentalist". :-/
a. often Fundamentalism An organized, militant Evangelical movement originating in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century in opposition to Protestant Liberalism and secularism, insisting on the inerrancy of Scripture.
Thanks for the story David... Imagine
Study the symptoms not the virus...
What a fucking loser! And this piece of shit used to drive a school bus?
Holy shit...that's very unnerving.
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds--Bob Marley
careful, we don't want to disturb your preconceived notions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yub5-vzaNFQ&fe...
the case of Afshan Azad
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchest...
two down
http://www.marieclaire.com/world-reports/news...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/irshad-manji/ho...
from the perspective of someone who says she is a femnist
http://www.irshadmanji.com/im-george-w-left-i...
http://www.irshadmanji.com/im-aqsa-parvez-she...
sure, must be that "islamophobia", must be catching. how about being fair? or at least try to be? that damn Peter King and his hearings, racist scum, isn't that what we like to hear? and the somali muslim on King's panel? he must be a self hating muslim. yeah, that's it. that's the ticket. anybody who might want to investigate what in the hell is really going on and not gloss it over? well, they are just ignorant racist teabaggers, those bastards. grow up.
"We've been getting lots of confirmation lately that, contrary to the claims undergirding Rep. Peter King's Islamophobic witch-hunt hearing, the greatest domestic-terrorism threat to average Americans is not from homegrown Islamic radicals, but from the same singular source of domestic terrorism we've had to deal with for more than a generation: the radical right."
You're drawing a line between two groups that, in the end, are the same.
They oppose a secular state. They oppose gender equality. They oppose homosexuals. They oppose folks not of their religion. They want a law that isn't our English common law.
Which one did I describe? Both of them. Both are right-wing radicals. One set is nominally Christian, the other nominally Muslim.
Islam is the enemy every bit as much as Christianity is -- not at all. Conservatism is the enemy. Bin Laden is a conservative, every bit as much as Peter King and Rush Limbaugh, albeit one who has actually killed someone himself, rather than being murder's cheerleader; the Höß to the Streicher, if you prefer.
You won't see this in any of Peter King's hearings.
Someone should let him know what's going on, even if all it does is make his own hypocrisy obvious to him. It would be a start. Perhaps one of his Democratic fellows will fill him in on these events.
Come on Democrats - save America from destruction by republicans. If republicans destroy America on purpose or by accident, destroyed is still destroyed.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
I bet the holocaust started off as an isolated incedent as well
Who knew?
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