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Why don't Christians who commit acts of violence get labeled terrorists like Muslims?

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  • U-98
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    Because their friends and Church members would bomb the media's offices.

    The IRA was never reported as a Christian terrorist organization, Chechnya and in Africa the same.

    The Baptist Terrorists operating in Northern India are never reported in the media either

    Here is a link to the India stuff.

    http://www.stephen-knapp.com/christian_terrorism_i...

  • 1 decade ago

    Because the media controls most of what we see on TV, and what we see on TV shapes our perceptions. Since America is a country that, at least for the time being, has a majority of Christians, it is the Christians who shape our media. And we all know that if we belong to a specific sect of people we do not want to show "our people" in a negative light. "We" are saints and are followers of light, "They" are sinners and terrorists.

  • 1 decade ago

    Wow! What a profound question! I love it! That is a good question! Why DON'T Christians who blow up abortion clinics, kill doctors, and protest like crazy nuts labeled terrorists? I think that's exactly what they are. It's all political BS that's why. Christians run our country, that's why. They are Americans, that's why. But I would love to see Bill O'Reilly or Dennis Miller take on this issue. Rosie O'Donnel said this statement on the View one day, and O'Reilly jumped all over her. I knew exactly what she meant! Thanks for an interesting question. Laurie Lee

  • 1 decade ago

    In the U.S., it's because Christianity is the dominant belief system. Those who are dominant get to slap the labels. Unfair, but true.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Terrorists can be anybody from any race or religion. But for the most part terrorists are Muslims. There are Christian who are terrorists, though not many or well known.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism

  • Because corporate America like's to think that (and make christians believe) that everything outside of YOU is evil.... This is called dictatorship, close to fascism... It is time for my friends from across the border to WAKE UP....

  • 1 decade ago

    because the media is from a Christian country. i bet they are not called terrorist in the middle east media.

  • 1 decade ago

    Media rules the Minds !! Whomever would media project as terrorist would be accepted as so by the people even if they are victims.............See this is the age of "lies and propaganda"

  • 1 decade ago

    yes they should be. A terrorist is a terrorist no matter what thier religiion is.

  • Because they don't try and use their religion as justification, and if they do they are an extremely tiny sect that most people never knew existed.

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