Thread: The Ku Klux Klan with a fiery cross

Christian terrorism can be defined in legal terms as “the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives”[1], “motivated in whole or part by an offender’s bias,”[2] specifically, Christian bias. "Although religion is not a single, simple causal factor in terrorist violence, religious elements often feature strongly in the belief systems associated with terrorist violence, and can also feature in other important fostering factors for terrorist violence, such as the use of rhetoric."[3]
In recent periods, examples of Christian terrorism are overwhelmingly tied to individuals and small groups, drawing condemnation from various institutional church bodies.[4] Incidents involving hate groups and hate crimes motivated by religious bias directed at the U.S. government or the American population may be investigated as acts of domestic terrorism.[5] "The victim of a hate crime may be an individual, a business, an institution, or society as a whole."[6]

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1 Lynchings, Cross Burnings, & the Noose
2 Inter-religious violence in Poso, Indonesia
3 Christian terrorist organizations
3.1 National Liberation Front of Tripura
3.2 Freedomites
3.3 Christian Identity, White Supremacy, and the ARA
3.4 Christian Patriots
4 Protests against the term "Christian Terrorism"
5 See also
6 References


Lynchings, Cross Burnings, & the Noose
Lynch mobs, "the assemblage of two or more persons, without color or authority of law, for the premeditated purpose and with the premeditated intent of committing an act of violence upon the person of another,”[7] can be considered vigilante terrorists,[8] and during the late nineteenth century in the United States, Great Britain and colonies, lynching as a form of terrorism coincided with a period of high imperialism violence and organized religious inspired protest which denied people participation in white dominated society on the basis of race or gender after the Emancipation Act of 1833.[9] In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Mob: Violence against Religious Outsiders in the U.S. South, 1865-1910", Patrick Q Mason describes a wide range of activities involving lynching, including murder, attempted murder, rape, beating, tar-and-feathering, and whipping. In addition, mob violence took the form of property destruction, such as when vigilantes burned or ransacked homes, businesses, and churches.[10] Cross burnings and nooses are two well known emblems of terror and primary symbols of the Ku Klux Klan made infamous during lynching in the late nineteenth century and still in use today. “A noose is a symbol of America’s oldest form of domestic terrorism.”[11] A rash of noose incidents reported in the months after three white students were suspended from school for hanging nooses in a tree in 2006 and the arrests later of six black students on attempted murder charges in the related beating of a white student in Jena, Louisiana have reintroduced the frightening and offensive symbol of segregation-era lynchings to the US. Some of the publicized incidents include nooses left in a black Coast Guard cadet's bag, on the office floor of a white officer who had conducted race-relations training in response to the incident, in the locker room at a Long Island police station which recently touted its efforts to recruit minorities, in a tree near a building on a Maryland college campus housing several black campus groups, and on the office door of a black professor at Columbia University in New York. "The noose is replacing the burning cross in the mind of much of the public as the leading symbol of the Klan."[12] Cross burnings, while not that common compared to overall crime, still take place in the US today and have a huge impact on the victim and the entire community. Cross burnings are generally covert acts performed in rural areas where there are scarce witnesses and bonds between conspirators, especially if part of an organized hate group, are strong. "They are a poisonous kind of hatred and can increase racial tension that may already exist in the area."[13] Neal Chapman Coombs, 50, of Hastings, Fla., was charged with knowingly and willfully intimidating and interfering with right to fair housing[14] by threat of force and the use of fire and pleaded guilty to a racially-motivated civil rights crime involving a cross burning to prevent the purchase of a house by an African-American family. Coombs was sentenced to 14 months in prison in January, 2007.[15] "Cross burning remains a vicious symbol of hatred."[16]

Inter-religious violence in Poso, Indonesia
On July 26, 2007, 17 Christians were convicted of religion-inspired terrorism under Indonesian law. A Christian mob attacked, murdered, and beheaded two Muslim fishermen in September 2006, reportedly as retaliation for the execution in 2006 of three Christian farmers, who were convicted of leading a militant group which killed hundreds of Muslims in Poso in 2000, an execution that attracted a plea for clemency from the pope, and accusations from Amnesty International that the trial was unfair.[17][22] The convictions come in the context of seven years of violence between Christian and Muslim groups in the province, including the beheading of three Christian schoolgirls on the way to school [23] and the deaths of hundreds of Muslims and Christians, and campaigns of religious cleansing on each side. As part of the conflict numerous individual acts of terror have been perpetrated by both sides.

Christian terrorist organizations
National Liberation Front of Tripura
The National Liberation Front of Tripura is a Fundamentalist Christian militant group in India, demanding a separate Christian state. Allegedly funded by the Baptist Church of Tripura, it is accused of ethnic cleansing[18] and bombings that have killed hundreds, as well as forcing gunpoint conversions. They were declared a terrorist organization under the Prevention of Terrorism Act in 2002.[19]

Freedomites
Freedomites (also Svobodniki or Sons of Freedom, Canada, 1902-present)[20]

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