Anti-abortionist calls for Christian terrorists
-23/1/04
An anti-abortion activist, calling for a new wave of violence against clinics and doctors,
Anti-abortionist calls for Christian terrorists
-23/1/04
An anti-abortion activist, calling for a new wave of violence against clinics and doctors, is following the example of violent Islamic fundamentalists, telling those who share his views to become “Christian terrorists” and promising them a reward in Heaven, reports ABCNews.com.
“As cream rising to the top of the milk, so the Christian terrorist rises above the huddled masses of churchgoers and the many voices which denounce their violent attempts to defend the innocent from they’re [sic] murderous assailants,” Chuck Spingola wrote in a posting on the Army of God Web site.
“Regarding abortion the separation is clear. The CT [Christian terrorist] has the Word of God and a testimony of loving, albeit terrifying [to the wicked], actions,” he said.
There is some question among academics and others who follow extremist movements in the United States about how seriously to take the rhetoric, particularly because none believe that such views are shared by more than, at most, a few hundred people.
“The hard-liners have become more and more hard-line, and I think they’ve lost most of their appeal even with the Christian right, which might share some of their views,” said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors extremist movements.
It is not a view likely to be shared by more than a handful of the thousands expected to march in Washington in the March for Life, an annual protest on the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that made abortion legal across the USA.
Mainstream anti-abortion groups such as the National Right to Life Committee have praised the arrests and convictions of people involved in violence against abortion providers and released a statement that the group “strongly opposes any use of violence as a means of stopping the violence that has killed more than 43 million unborn children since 1973.”
Anti-abortionist calls for Christian terrorists
-23/1/04
An anti-abortion activist, calling for a new wave of violence against clinics and doctors, is following the example of violent Islamic fundamentalists, telling those who share his views to become “Christian terrorists” and promising them a reward in Heaven, reports ABCNews.com.
“As cream rising to the top of the milk, so the Christian terrorist rises above the huddled masses of churchgoers and the many voices which denounce their violent attempts to defend the innocent from they’re [sic] murderous assailants,” Chuck Spingola wrote in a posting on the Army of God Web site.
“Regarding abortion the separation is clear. The CT [Christian terrorist] has the Word of God and a testimony of loving, albeit terrifying [to the wicked], actions,” he said.
There is some question among academics and others who follow extremist movements in the United States about how seriously to take the rhetoric, particularly because none believe that such views are shared by more than, at most, a few hundred people.
“The hard-liners have become more and more hard-line, and I think they’ve lost most of their appeal even with the Christian right, which might share some of their views,” said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors extremist movements.
It is not a view likely to be shared by more than a handful of the thousands expected to march in Washington in the March for Life, an annual protest on the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that made abortion legal across the USA.
Mainstream anti-abortion groups such as the National Right to Life Committee have praised the arrests and convictions of people involved in violence against abortion providers and released a statement that the group “strongly opposes any use of violence as a means of stopping the violence that has killed more than 43 million unborn children since 1973.”