Christian terrorists, inspired by radical preacher Franklin Graham, have inundated Duke University with threats of violent attacks against students. The Christian extremists have been whipped up into a fury by reports that Muslims at Duke University would be allowed to have a call to prayer. The terrorists have demanded that the Muslim call to prayer be censored, and Duke University has agreed to their demands, citing “a number of credible threats against Muslim students, faculty and staff” from Christians outside the university.
This decision to give Christian terrorists what they want, and to deny Muslim students equal status at Duke, is being implemented on National Religious Freedom Day. Apparently, what National Religious Freedom Day means to American Christians is that Christians get religious freedom, and everyone else gets to go to hell.
Extra security provisions are being put into place across the Duke University campus to protect students from the Christian terrorist menace.
What is not known is how closely Franklin Graham is connected to the terrorists. Graham has not condemned their use of threats of violence to gain control over Duke University, and has celebrated the university’s surrender to the terrorists’ demands.
Franklin Graham’s followers are the American Christian equivalent of the the Muslim terrorists who attacked Charlie Hebdo for publishing cartoons of Mohammed. Muslim extremists have used violence against Charlie Hebdo to try to stop others from deviating from their strict religious laws, and Christian extremists have used threats of violence against Duke University to try to stop others from deviating from their strict religious laws.
The only significant difference is that Duke University caved in to terrorist demands before terrorist attacks were implemented, whereas the publishers of Charlie Hebdo refused to cave in.
We will not hear any of the major news networks refer to this instance of intimidation as “terrorism”, although it clearly meets the definition of terrorism.
Oxford Dictionaries defines terrorism as: “The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.”
The American Heritage Dictionary defines terrorism as: “The use of violence or the threat of violence, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political goals.”
WordNet Dictionary defines terrorism as: “the calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimindation or coercion or instilling fear”
Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines terrorism as: “The use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.”
We will not see the Department of Homeland Security sweep down upon North Carolina to infiltrate churches to root out the Southern Christian terrorist cells being developed there. Franklin Graham will not have to worry about drone attacks against his home.
In America, Christian terrorists and Muslim terrorists don’t get the same treatment. While Muslim terrorists are reviled, Christian terrorists are celebrated as heroes.