Christian Terrorist Arrested

You don't see the phrase "Christian Terrorist" very often, if at all - usually we hear about "Muslim Terrorists." But what other term more accurately describes a person who plans to engage in acts of terror and violence on behalf of their Christian beliefs? That's the case with Stephen John Jordi, arrested in Miami for planning to carry out bombings at various abortion clinics.

South Florida's Sun-Sentinel reports:

Prosecutors said Jordi was an admirer of Paul Hill, executed Sept. 3 for fatally shooting an abortion doctor and his bodyguard outside a Pensacola clinic in 1994. He attended demonstrations outside the prison where Hill was executed and was photographed by The New York Times walking alongside convicted abortion clinic bomber Joshua Graff and Neal Horsley, an anti-abortion activist.

Jordi, a former Army Ranger, hoped to be ``on the run'' like Eric Rudolph, who is charged with the Olympic bombing and several abortion clinic bombings. The affidavit said Jordi told an FBI source he expected to eventually be hunted by authorities: ``As long as I keep hitting places ... they'll keep after me ... but like trying to catch a cockroach in a house ... they won't get me.''

The public is very fortunate that he was caught in time. He is an admirer of vicious killers, men who terrorized and murdered because they believed that their god told them to do so. Frankly, there is no difference between them an Muslim terrorists who bomb schools or shopping centers - both follow the same sort of twisted theology that allows them to justify the deaths of others on behalf of their own beliefs.

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