readers of this blog might also find it interesting to read about the christian police officer who entered the planned parenthood facility to protect those being shot (despite the fact that he himself disagreed with abortion) - he was unfortunately shot and killed: http://thecripplegate.com/swaseys-last-sermon/
the one paragraph i found quite informative in the post above was the info about the different schools of islamic law and their views on abortion. i found this quite interesting. but the attempt to compare fundamentalist terrorisms (christian and islamic) is muddied by an obvious fact: the reason there is not the same level of public outrage/fear relating to killing of abortionists as to so-called jihadi acts of terrorism is, of course, there has never been a claim by such abortionist killers that they are attempting a societal-wide form of "christian sharia". in other words, such acts are isolated to abortion clinics and not to other activities in society. i've not done an exhaustive study of such killings, but my general sense is that they simply are doing it out of a kind of "protesting the innocent" principle and are not doing it to enforce old testament law wholesale (death penalties and all). if they were, they would also be saying that rebellious children need to be killed, etc. (there is, of course, a tradition of christian theology - it is called theonomy - that wants old testament law enforced wholesale on contemporary societies - but i sense it is too heady for these abortionist killers.) i appreciate your aim to highlight racism or unconscious support for something equally harmful to contemporary society as islamic fundamentalism - but i found your comparison immediately dismissable for the assymetry between the two fundamentlisms.
readers of this blog might also find it interesting to read about the christian police officer who entered the planned parenthood facility to protect those being shot (despite the fact that he himself disagreed with abortion) - he was unfortunately shot and killed: http://thecripplegate.com/swaseys-last-sermon/
the one paragraph i found quite informative in the post above was the info about the different schools of islamic law and their views on abortion. i found this quite interesting. but the attempt to compare fundamentalist terrorisms (christian and islamic) is muddied by an obvious fact: the reason there is not the same level of public outrage/fear relating to killing of abortionists as to so-called jihadi acts of terrorism is, of course, there has never been a claim by such abortionist killers that they are attempting a societal-wide form of "christian sharia". in other words, such acts are isolated to abortion clinics and not to other activities in society. i've not done an exhaustive study of such killings, but my general sense is that they simply are doing it out of a kind of "protesting the innocent" principle and are not doing it to enforce old testament law wholesale (death penalties and all). if they were, they would also be saying that rebellious children need to be killed, etc. (there is, of course, a tradition of christian theology - it is called theonomy - that wants old testament law enforced wholesale on contemporary societies - but i sense it is too heady for these abortionist killers.) i appreciate your aim to highlight racism or unconscious support for something equally harmful to contemporary society as islamic fundamentalism - but i found your comparison immediately dismissable for the assymetry between the two fundamentlisms.