The Western media always labels political acts of violence anywhere in the world with a religious tag. Thus we have the well known category of Islamic terrorism. Given this fact can we call the massacre of 94 young people on the island of Uteoya by Anders Behring Breivik as an act of Christian terrorism just as the world seems to recognize the existence of Islamic terrorism. There is an eerie similarity in the planning and execution of the plot with Timothy McVeigh's Oklahoma Federal Building bombing nearly a decade back. McVeigh too was inspired by fundamentalist Christian values and he too used ammonium nitrate as the explosive charge for the bomb.
There's lots wrong here, to wit:
Western media haven't always labeled political acts of violence anywhere in the world with a religious tag... unless the perpetrators themselves have done so.
You and a few others with an agenda (promoting moral equivalence and excusing Muslim/Jihadist terrorism) may call Breivik's murder spree an act of Christian terrorism, but it's not; his own writings reveal the political nature of his motives. Not to mention, for a Norwegian to slaughter innocent Norwegians as an 'anti-Muslim statement' betrays his psychotic and irrational thinking.
Timothy McVeigh could not possibly have been 'inspired' by fundamentalist Christian values... the 'value' of blowing people up is simply not one of them; no Christian leader advocates killing people* for any reason, let alone a political one.
You got one thing right - they both employed ammonium nitrate to make a bomb. But that's where the similarity ends, it seems to me.
In my opinion, McVeigh is the wrong comparator. Breivik is more Loughner writ large, unless & until involvement of others is confirmed.
The suggestion that there is a Christian terrorism is just as wrong as the assertion that there is Islamic terrorism.
You're only half right. There is organized Islamic terrorism. Why you seem to think otherwise, when the Islamic Jihadist terrorists themselves proclaim its existence and issue calls for other Muslims to join them in Jihad, with the help and encouragement of many Imams, is puzzling, to put it mildly. Pretending moral equivalence here is willful disregard for reality and simply bullshit.
*There may have been a few nutjobs calling for the killing of abortionists over the years, so you got that if you want it, but none calling for the killing of people for 'insulting Jesus' or because they happen not to be Christian.
