"Along the stopping terrorism line...
I noted that a US Representative from Colorado actually called for the destruction of Mecca if Islamofascists set off a nuke in the USA.
Now - I know that in an earlier post in this thread I said "nuke 'em", but a day or so I read a comment on another website that made the point/asked the question -
"If destroying Mecca is justified because of the actions of some muslims, wouldn't the bombing of the Vatican be justified by the British because IRA terrorists are all Catholic?"
That made me stop and think..."[/sub]
No, bombing is not justified. I could never agree with bombing those sites.
But I tried a little substitutions myself with parts of a Time article on the London attacks.
I have changed the names and places to make substitutions marked like *().
"At about 10:30 p.m., on July 7, the parents of *(John Doe) called police to report that their 18-year-old son was missing. He had told them he was going to
*(Los Vegas) 'with some mates'; and they hadn't heard from him.
"Although locals claimed not to have noticed anything unusual, all three men, in hindsight, had show proclivities for radical *(Christianity). After *(John Doe) got into some fights at his racially divided school, he went to *(The Vatican) on a pilgrimage with his father, who then sent thim to study in a
*(monanstery) in *(Canada), hoping the teen would gain discipline. When *(Joe Doe) returned to *(Phoenix), he grew a beard and began dressing in traditional *(Amish) clothes.
"In *(Phoenix) the nexus for their slide over the edge appears to have been a youth-outreach project that was an offshoot the government-funded *(Our Youth) community center.
*(Joe Doe) and *(other terrorist) regularly played football there. *(older terrorist) was described as an influential father figure to them."
Has this scenario happened to many Christian families who provided their children with a Christian education? Who knew who their children were associating with? Who knew what ideologies their children were being taught in religious instruction?
Are any mainline Christian churches associated with recruitment of terrorist cells? Would people let their church be used that way? Would Christians give money to unregistered charities that funded terrorist activities? Would Christian youth workers be allowed to recruit children and young adults to be suicide bombers?
At worst, I can think of a few rogue Christian groups who were tainted with evil: Jonestown, Branch Davidians. They succeeded in killing off their congregations, law enforcements officers and some other innocent people including a Senator. But I do not believe they committed random acts of terrorism.
London police chased down and executed a suspected suicide bomber who was wearing a "padded coat" just this morning. This is the way all suicide bombers should be treated, that is if they can be caught in time.
