Let's call a spade a spade

I haven't written about the Fort Hood shootings any because I wanted to see what the fall out would be and what the shooter would have to say if and when he ever talked. But since the rabid Christian right is shouting and braying that the alleged shooter (and that's the correct thing to call him since it has not been proven in a court of law that he did the shootings yet, and please you right wingers, remember that our justice system is based on the principle of innocent until proven guilty) is a Muslim terrorist I'm going to wade into this bullshit.

They claim that the alleged shooter is a Muslim jihadist bent on taking down Americans and the American way of life (but what they mean when they say 'American' is Christian). To them since he contacted a Muslim cleric in some dusty Middle Eastern country then he's got to be a terrorist, never mind that he contacted him for information relating to a paper he was writing for the Army. They also go on to say the President Obama is at fault for not weeding him out of the Army because doing so might have made some other Muslims mad, after all the President is a Muslim himself so he wanted to be politically correct and save his Muslim homeboys from embarrassment, never mind the fact that the alleged shooter was seen as a threat while Bush was in charge and nothing was done back then.
The guy is a Muslim and he killed Christian Americans and he shouted "Allahu abkar!" before he opened fire, so he's a terrorist.

What they fail to mention is that this guy is also a terrorist:
Remember him? He's the guy who shot up a Unitarian church in Knoxville because he wanted to kill liberals, which he did by the way until one of those lily livered liberals kicked his ass and held him for the cops, and he's the guy you never hear anything about on FOX Noise anymore because they don't want to be tarred with his stink. He's a Christian and he used violence to achieve his desired political ends, and that's the classic definition of terrorism. Oh yeah, he also explicitly said he wanted to kill all the people in Bernie Goldber's book 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America. And his house was full of books by people who work for FOX News.

They also gloss over this guy:
He's the Christian who shot up the Holocaust Museum, which he chose as a target because he hated Jews. And they love to forget to mention, when they mention him at all, that he's a former white supremacist, which is a far right wing political movement, of which the Tea party crowd are a part and so are Libertarians.

Here's another Christian terrorist:
He's latest killer of doctors who perform abortions, which is still a legal medical procedure in this country by the way. They tie themselves in logic knots when trying to prove that this animal isn't a terrorist. But since this Christian man used violence to achieve his desired political end, he's a terrorist. He's a Christian and he's a terrorist. And to the anti abortion crowd, he's a hero.

And finally we end this parade of infamy with the American Christian terrorist who killed the most people in one fell swoop ever on US soil:
The late Tim McVeigh. He was in the US Army and he was a Christian. He killed to achieve his desired political end and he was caught, tried, convicted, and murdered for his crime. But they never talk about him when they talk about terrorists.

The point here is that if you're going to bitch that people aren't calling the Fort Hood shooter a terrorist because they are being politically correct and you're not calling those Christians who committed terrorist acts terrorists, then you're intellectually cowardly and you're hypocrites. And the argument that only good things come from the Christian god doesn't apply, because if you believe that the Christian god created everything then he created everything, including terrorists of all kinds, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, etc. The other point is, and this is the one that most people, and by most people I mean the right wingers, is that religious extremism of any stripe is bad, be it Muslim, Christian, Jewish, etc.

If this tragedy shows us anything, it shows us that we need to get the hell out of the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan and that we need less religion in our world.