Dem: Let's Have a Hearing on Radicalization of Christians

Because Christians are just as likely to blow buildings up and kill thousands of non-Christians, a Democratic congressman says he's cool with investigating the radicalization of Muslims as long as we also investigate Christians.

Texas Congressman Al Green (D) says he wouldn’t mind Rep. Peter King (R-NY) repeatedly calling hearings on “radical Islam” if he would also conduct a “hearing on the radicalization of Christians.”

During a Wednesday House Homeland Security Committee hearing on “The Radicalization of Muslim-Americans,” Green wondered why the chairman had only focused on one religion.

“If you agree that radicalization exists within all religions to some extent, would you kindly extend a hand into the air,” Green, who is the grandson of a Christian minister, asked the witnesses testifying before the committee. He noted that “all the hands are raised.”

“I don’t think that most people oppose hearings on radicalization,” the congressman explained. “I do not, not — N-O-T — oppose hearings on radicalization. I do oppose hearings that don’t focus on the entirety of radicalization. And if you agree that we have Christians, as has been mentioned by more than one member, Christians who become radicalized, they become part of Islam and they become radicalized as is being said, why not have a hearing on the radicalization of Christians?”

This kind of equivalence rises easily to the level of stupidity on its face because Christians aren't strapping bombs to themselves or hijacking planes.

There is a surprising amount of real visceral near hatred of Evangelical Christians and, I suppose, tradition Conservative Catholics, in mainstream culture. All of it it is by no means on the left side either. I have heard mainline Christians make similar comments to these about Evangelicals. Ralph Peters, who certainly can't be listed as a leftist, wrote a very disturbing novel in 2009 titled ‘The War After Armageddon’ in which Evangelical Christians become Nazi surrogates in launching a ‘final solution to the Muslim problem’ with H Bombs. There is even an SS equivalent army wearing a cross insignia (don't remember if it is a sleeve insignia of the sort the SS sported). One reviewer described the book as follows:

after Israel has been destroyed by a nuclear attack and Islamic Jihadists have conquered the Middle East, a U. S. military expeditionary force is sent to recapture it. However, in addition to familiar American combat units, like the 1st Cavalry Division, the 1st Infantry Division, and the U. S. Marine Corps, Peters has the expedition being spearheaded by a corps called The Military Order of the Brothers in Christ (MOBIC), a National Guard-like outfit manned by modern-day real Crusaders whose boundless religious fanaticism not only fuels them to re-take the “Holy Land,” but drives them to annihilate every Muslim man, woman and child in the world. Since the folks back home in the good old U.S. of A. already have endured the Jihadi terrorists’ nuclear destruction of Los Angeles and Las Vegas, the American public reflects MOBIC’s extreme anti-Muslim fanaticism. U. S. Army soldiers and Marines – Peters’ “flesh and blood” at combat’s sharp end – are caught smack in the middle, facing die-hard Jihadist forces, fellow American religious fanatics who want MOBIC to be the United States’ only military force, and forced to fight “the old fashioned way” when their hi-tech weaponry and communications are knocked out by nuclear explosions’ electromagnetic pulse. Maintaining military professionalism and even basic humanity in the face of unprecedented adversity – and amidst definitely conflicted emotions regarding enemy noncombatants, wars innocent victims – is one of the novel’s compelling themes, superbly examined by Peters. His appropriate dedication seems to sum up Peters’ sentiments in that regard: “To those who solemnly swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” In the dark vision that Peters’ portrays in The War After Armageddon, remaining faithful to that solemn oath is a mission that literally tries men’s souls.

Actually, as readers discover in the novel’s opening line, the entire book is written as a memoir, a flashback to the devastating “Holy War” fought to the death by fanatics on both sides.

There is a general unease among both the non churched and the traditional Protestants and many ‘moderate’ Catholics about Evangelical Christianity and pre-milenial dispensationalists. Mostly I have found this to be a combination of social snobbery and ignorance. That Evangelicals are comfortable with plotting some sort of coup or Trojan horse power grab and that they nurture desires to violently persecute all they consider to be ‘nonbelievers’ and wish to unleash a campaign of genocide against Islam are commonly heard among non-Evangelicals. Those who are Bible Believing Christians and their Catholic allies need some sort of proactive education campaign to at least get your real views before the general population that is being impacted by these vicious caricatures as witness the Peter's book.

That is like airport security, we must not profile, so it turns out that since most people are not terrorists searching by random is much safer for the authorities.

So it is the least likely terrorists that are searched, and so it will be if this Green gets his way, only the Christians will get called on these hearings.

That very attitude is why America is so deep into Socialism
and i think this is another case where the World Government elitists are using two sides against each other in order to set up world Government.

Just another step toward Government domination.

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