Militia members charged with police-killing plot
Quote:Nine suspects tied to a Christian militia in the Midwest are charged with conspiring to kill police officers, then attack a funeral in the hopes of killing more law enforcement personnel, federal prosecutors said Monday.
U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade said agents moved on the group because the Hutaree members were planning a violent reconaissance mission sometime in April — just a few days away.
I guess idiocy knows no religious boundaries.
Ah, Christianity, the "good, peaceful religion" showing it's not so peaceful side.
Hmmm... I remember when conservatives got all pissed off about that DHS report warning of the dangers of rising Right Wing extremism. Looks like the signs are now being fulfilled.
(03-31-2010 12:27 AM)Vader654 Wrote: [ -> ]Ah, Christianity, the "good, peaceful religion" showing it's not so peaceful side.
Yeah,
Here's another Christian "militia" group spreading around the love of Jesus.
Quote:Fighters from Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army have hacked or beaten to death at least 321 Congolese villagers in one of the worst single atrocities of their 23-year insurgency.
The attacks occurred in a remote part of northern Democratic Republic of Congo between 14 and 17 December last year, but their scale has only now been made public. Human Rights Watch, which today releases a report on the mass killings, says that most of the dead were men who had been tied up and then cut with machetes, or had their skulls crushed with axes or clubs. Family members later found many of the battered bodies still bound to trees.
More than 250 civilians, including 80 children, were seized during the raid that left a "stench of death" in the Makombo area of Haut Uele district, the report said. The attacks were allegedly ordered by General Dominic Ongwen, a fugitive from the International Criminal Court. United Nations human rights officials in Congo, who this month reached part of the heavily forested area where the attacks occurred, corroborated the account. They recorded the names of 100 victims and 150 abductees. But Todd Howland, director of the UN's joint human rights office in Congo, said the Red Cross had reported burying 250 people and the death toll was likely to be higher. "A figure of 321 does not sound exaggerated," he said. "It could be more than that."
Gotta love the media bashing Islam and all Muslims as being backwards and bad when Christians are just as backwards, bad and stupid.
Now lets not start lumping all Christians in with these guys, those guys are not real Christians.
Back on the original topic, these guys sound like a pack of "enemy combatants" to me! They should be treated as such.
(03-31-2010 03:30 PM)Eagle of the Desert3 Wrote: [ -> ]Now lets not start lumping all Christians in with these guys, those guys are not real Christians.
Don't like it when the shoe's on the other foot, do you?
(03-31-2010 06:08 PM)jedi123 Wrote: [ -> ] (03-31-2010 03:30 PM)Eagle of the Desert3 Wrote: [ -> ]Now lets not start lumping all Christians in with these guys, those guys are not real Christians.
Don't like it when the shoe's on the other foot, do you?
Yeah, how convenient that any Christian who does something bad is automatically not a Christian but any Muslim that does something bad all of Islam is blamed. Hypocrisy at it's finest.
(03-31-2010 09:00 PM)master_of_the_force Wrote: [ -> ] (03-31-2010 06:08 PM)jedi123 Wrote: [ -> ] (03-31-2010 03:30 PM)Eagle of the Desert3 Wrote: [ -> ]Now lets not start lumping all Christians in with these guys, those guys are not real Christians.
Don't like it when the shoe's on the other foot, do you?
Yeah, how convenient that any Christian who does something bad is automatically not a Christian but any Muslim that does something bad all of Islam is blamed. Hypocrisy at it's finest.
I think it's safe to say
both Christianity and Islam are very large groups with diverse interests and goals and that both also have their crazies that give their respective faiths a bad name.
(03-31-2010 10:49 PM)Vader654 Wrote: [ -> ] (03-31-2010 09:00 PM)master_of_the_force Wrote: [ -> ] (03-31-2010 06:08 PM)jedi123 Wrote: [ -> ] (03-31-2010 03:30 PM)Eagle of the Desert3 Wrote: [ -> ]Now lets not start lumping all Christians in with these guys, those guys are not real Christians.
Don't like it when the shoe's on the other foot, do you?
Yeah, how convenient that any Christian who does something bad is automatically not a Christian but any Muslim that does something bad all of Islam is blamed. Hypocrisy at it's finest.
I think it's safe to say both Christianity and Islam are very large groups with diverse interests and goals and that both also have their crazies that give their respective faiths a bad name.
that's right, people like the ones mentioned have about as much to do with christianity as al-qaida has to do with islam. a nut's a nut whatever the faith.
I have no love for Islam but from what I've seen its leaders are better at marginalizing and denouncing it's crazies/fundies than Christianity is.
(I'm going to move this to the Debate forum as it seems more appropriate there)
(04-01-2010 01:15 PM)VulcanStevens Wrote: [ -> ]I have no love for Islam but from what I've seen its leaders are better at marginalizing and denouncing it's crazies/fundies than Christianity is.
Really, from what I've seen, Christians have been denouncing baddies like these guys, don't think for a minute that these groups are an example of what Christianity is all about. The same is true for Islam.
What about all those child molesting priests that the Vatican is conveniently covering-up? Or the abortion doctor getting killed? Never seen much denouncement in those areas.
I'm not Catholic, but I should say that virtually everyone I know denounces those cases.
When you get down to it, Christianity (and Islam too) is about whatever its followers make it about. For some people, it's love and peace. For some, it's control. For some, it's killing abortion doctors. For some, it's oppress homosexuals. For some, it's fly planes into buildings. Everyone sees something different.
(04-01-2010 08:13 PM)VulcanStevens Wrote: [ -> ]What about all those child molesting priests that the Vatican is conveniently covering-up?
everyone where i live, priests included, are as shocked and horrified as the rest of us as to why the church would cover up these criminals behavior.
You have to remember there isn't much Catholics in regards to those scandals can do as the Church isn't a democracy. Still the Priest in my own church has talked about how terrible these child abuse scandals are. Plenty of people are upset. But what can we do except hope and pray the Vatican gets this mess sorted out. And I really hope that the Pope is not involved or this could get even worse.