Norway, Oklahoma City, and the notion of Christian terrorism
Date: July 28th 2011
Norway, Oklahoma City, and the notion of Christian terrorism
Immediately after Friday’s bombing and murders in Norway, the natural assumption was that Muslims were guilty of another atrocity. Then, when the killer turned out to be a blond-haired Norwegian nutcase (pardon the redundancies), people started comparing the situation to Oklahoma City. "This attack was probably more Norway's Oklahoma City than Norway's World Trade Centre,” said a local police official.That comparison is seriously flawed, but nevertheless became the motif for news coverage around the world.
Liberals quickly labeled the killer, Anders Behring Breivik, a "fundamentalist Christian" and were practically giddy with delight at having a chance to take potshots at one of their favorite targets: the religion of Christianity...
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