A Letter To The Editor From Rhino Times Reader Austin Morris
The man who murdered innocent revelers during New Year’s celebrations in New Orleans is named Shamsud Din Jabbar. That is a muslim name. An ISIS flag was found in his truck. That is a muslim terrorist organization.
Just before Christmas another muslim, from Saudi Arabia, also used his vehicle to murder innocent people as they attended an explicit celebration of the most Holy event in Christianity – Christmas.
On June 2nd 2017 my brother and I visited the famed Borough Market in London. The next day three muslims drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge, then ran into the Borough Market, cornering men and women and demanding they recite a verse from the Koran. If they could not do so, the muslims stuck a butcher knife in them.
Atheists may mock Christians, or any believers. Zoroastrians may despise us. There are 57 Varieties of religious beliefs. But from A to Z, none of them feel the need to murder innocent men, women, and children – except one.
Whether it’s an EgyptAir pilot shrieking “Alluhu Akbar” as he deliberately crashes his jetliner, or a team of organised muslims who shouted it as they gunned down French journalists at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, the irrefutable common factor is obvious and clear.
Islam.
– Austin Morris
Editor’s Note: Terrorist attacks have been perpetrated in the name of other religions. Just to take Christianity as one example, there was an incident in Wieambilla, Queensland, Australia in December 2022 in which six people were killed in a terrorist attack in the name of Christianity, and there have been bombings and other acts of violence in the US by various anti-abortion groups as well as acts by the Army of God. Aryan Nations, which claims a Christian ethos, is also classified as a terrorist group by the US government.
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Whether an organization is classified as a terrorist group by the US government is irrelevant. The Principal of the US government once characterized Islam as “The Religion of Peace” (George W, Bush). Is that claim credible?
Many others point out that Timothy McVeigh was a Christian, as was Adolf Hitler (nominally). So what? They did not carry out their atrocities in the name of their religious beliefs. That was irrelevant. But on the other hand, muslims carry out their atrocities EXPLICITLY in the name of Islam. It is their motivation.
And the few examples I cited are a drop in the bucket. Almost every single day in Nigeria, Islamists persecute Christians in an explicitly religious fashion. It doesn’t get much press in the US. And the persecution amounts to more than being denied a job, or being called a pejorative epithet. It’s lethal, murderous violence.
For many, it is more comfortable to deny threats that are real and dangerous. The psychological comfort blanket was apparent in the 1930’s as the appeasement movement bleated that the Nazis were no threat. In the Cold War it was those who peddled “Detente”. And today it is those who refuse to acknowledge the nature of Islam, and its iniquity.
In my own country (the UK) it has become impossible even to say these things. The authorities are fearful of the backlash – because Islam uses violence as a tool.
Thank God for the First Amendment. And America.
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And I was curious about these “Christian terrorist attacks”, so I Googled the Australian Wieambilla incident. This incident involved no deaths or even injury to anyone – except the people who lived on their own property. Australian armed law enforcement entered their private property by jumping the fence and a gunfight ensued.
This was more like the Randy Weaver incident in Idaho. They might have been Christians, but the defence of their home had nothing at all to do with their religion.
I’m sorry Scott, but that does not amount to Christian terrorism. That’s simply untrue.
Historically, the Klan has used the Bible as justification for their racist attacks on minorities. Even as recently as 2024.
But I do agree that a big difference is that the Christian groups lack the support from senior religious leadership from any of the major denominations. But also with Muslims, the religion is tied to political power so the two are intertwined and we all know the horrors goverment take on the innocents in the name of defense of their ideals so not really an apples to apples comparison. I will always support separation of church and State (yet another reason I left the Republican party in 2016).
End of the day, the individuals behind these recent attacks seem to have acted independent of governments or organized religious terrorist groups so fall into the mentally deranged bucket of killers that we have grown used to in the United States. (Likely fed propaganda from their chosen echo chambers feeding hate) Thereofore, doesn’t warrant a hate of Muslims or any specific country outside of the untied states. Not that that won’t stop negative rhetoric of anti-muslim/anti-immigrant people like Austin.
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I am an immigrant.
So you deny your rants about immigrants of color in UK? I have never not accused you of being a hypocrite. Lol
“Chris” employs baseless character assassination. All. The. Time.
He can’t win arguments any other way.
Why didn’t you bring up the Telsa bombing? Hmmmm, I wonder?
Deflect & digress….deflect & digress.
It’s what you do when you can’t win the debate.