Unitarian Church Shooting was not ‘Terrorism’

Aug 01 2008

Posted by: 阿偉 in Current Events, Religion

With the recent attacks on the Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee, liberal fundamentalists have yet again used other people’s personal tradgedies in order to perpetrate their political agendas and launch new attacks on the more traditionalist worldviews of some Americans. Some groups have used this incident to call for stricter gun control, and others have suggested that Jim Adkisson, 58, a former United States veteran, be charged as a terrorist. Such people claim, that since he held a contempt for liberal ideologies, and acted on those impulses, that the crime was out of the ordinary, and thus worthy of being labeled a terrorist attack.

The mislabeling of this event as terrorism is based on on the idea that terrorism consists of simply using violence or intimidation against the government or civilian population in order to make a poltical statement. The act of carrying a gun and shooting people is considered to be violent by American law, and it is clear that he had his own political beliefs. However, this in itself is a very broad definition. For example, “intimidation” could possibly be extended in the future to include mere verbal assault against someone with differing political beliefs. This definition might also be applied to the mobs, who during the Olympic Torch relay in Paris, assaulted the wheelchair-bound athelete in an effort to “intimidate” the world community into cancelling the Olympic Games. Of course, this latter incident is conveniently glossed over by such liberal fundamentalists. By extending the definition to include anything, the liberal fundamentalists are seeking to label any action perpetrated by those they do not agree with as a terrorist action.

This incident neither should be viewed as a instance of religious victimization. Unitarian Universalism is a cult, comparable to the Baha’i cult, which has already been discussed in a previous entry. The specifics of Unitarian Universlalism will be discussed in another entry.

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