Posted on 12/04/2015 9:45:15 PM PST by damonw
I have seen so many comments from liberals in denial regarding the ISIS terrorist attack in California, so this post is going to be my very best attempt at untangling this yarn ball of lies and bullshit as best I can.
First, the majority of them have immediately brought up Robert Dear, the guy who shot three people in Planned Parenthood, to make a point that Christian terrorists are just as bad and Muslim terrorists are unfairly scrutinized. Whens the last time you heard of a terrorist attack targeting abortion clinics? I looked it up. Since 1990, there have been 7 fatal attacks on abortion clinics or abortion doctors, resulting in 11 fatalities. ELEVEN. Just to clarify, thats less in 25 years than Syed Farook and Tashfeed Malik killed in the span of 5 minutes.
Second, bringing up other white, male mass shooters in the United States to somehow prove this is just as big a problem as Islamic terrorism and ISIS. Why white males? Why not mention the Navy Yard shooter or the Virginia Tech shooter? As far as Im aware, there is no all encompassing ideology driving white males to go on rampage killings. Theres no single motive or common denominator, unlike Islamic terrorism, where there is ALWAYS a single motive and common denominator: Islam. I looked up the 30 worst mass shootings in US history. 10 of them were carried out by non white males. And those 30 rampage shootings resulted in a total of 382 deaths. Thats less than 1/4 of fatalities caused by Islamic terrorist attacks in November 2015 ALONE.
Thirdly, many are saying there have been 355 mass shootings in America this year, with only 2% by Muslims being responsible. Except this statistic from Mass Shooting Tracker has been proven FALSE. 42% of these so called shootings resulted in zero deaths and 29% resulted in 1 death. Thats 71% of these supposed mass shootings that involved 1 death or less. So if youre parroting this statistic, you’re essentially lumping a random shooting where one person was injured in the leg with a pre-planned, ISIS terror attack on US soil. Congratulations.
Fourthly, bringing up PAST Christian atrocities to somehow condone or justify the Islamic terror threat we face TODAY. I tallied up the body count. ISIS alone has killed over 6,000 innocent people just this year. Adding up the predictable Christian atrocities Ive heard (even if they were NOT motivated by Christianity at all): Timothy McVeigh, the KKK, the IRA, and the Spanish Inquisition combined doesnt even come close to the ISIS body count just this year. And thats just ISIS. That doesn’t include Boko Haram, Abu Sayyef, Al Qaeda, Al Nusra, Al Shabaab, the Taliban, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the other Islamic terrorist organizations that make up the overwhelming majority of named Islamic terror groups worldwide.
Fifthly, of 335 official terrorist attacks listed in 2015 worldwide, 310 of them were carried out by either an Islamic terrorist group or a lone wolf Muslim. Thats over 92%. Case closed.
Seriously liberals, I will play this Christians vs. Muslims numbers game all day long. You want to point out Hitler as Christian, even though he personally hated Christianity and his motives were far from religious? Ill still give you that and raise you one Islamic massacre of 70 million Hindus on the Indian subcontinent. You want to bring up the Crusades, a defensive war by Europe that was meant to stop Islamic military expansion? Ill still give you that and raise you one Armenian genocide by the Ottoman Turks. You want to bring up the Inquisition or the Salem Witch Trials or every abortion clinic bombing in the history of the world? Ill give you all of those and raise you one massacre of 700 beheaded Banu Qurayza Jews by Mohammad the Prophet himself in 627 AD.
So liberals, keep harping on about Islamophobia, and Christian atrocities that pale in comparison to the atrocities we face TODAY. It’s not going to stop the Islamic jihadists from wanting to kill you, and its not going to stop more ISIS attacks from happening, as much as you desperately want to point the finger at your own fellow Americans instead! — Benjamin Rush
Of course Christians in Africa rise up. But they do so because they are under attack from Islam also. All of northern Africa used to be majority Christian until the second Islamic jihad. So those would not be considered terrorist attack but an uprising against Islamic terror. The article does lack stats about Christianity world wide, but is still substantive and is not comparing apples to oranges because both Islam and Christian US attacks are dealt with sufficiently in my opinion.
Agreed, it’s a good article. But using worldwide Islamic numbers against US Christian numbers, even if the Christian numbers are exaggerated, will allow liberals to deny the validity of the whole article.
Thanks for this!
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