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Christian terrorism, a form of religious terrorism, refers to terrorist acts which are committed by groups or individuals who profess Christian motivations or goals.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Christian terrorists justify their violent tactics through their interpretation of the Bible and Christianity, in accordance with their own objectives and worldview.<ref name="Al-Khattar2003">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Hoffman19952">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name="Pratt20102">Template:Cite journal</ref>

Christian terrorism can be committed against members of other Christian denominations, adherents of other religions, secular governments, groups, individuals or society as a whole.<ref name="Al-Khattar2003"/> Christianity can also be cynically misused as a rhetorical device to achieve political or military goals by terrorists.<ref name="csmonitor20111108">Template:Cite news</ref>

Christian terrorist groups include paramilitary organizations, cults, and loose groups of people that might come together in order to attempt to terrorize other groups. Some groups also encourage unaffiliated individuals to commit terrorist acts.<ref name="inside2">Template:Cite book</ref> The paramilitary groups are typically tied to ethnic and political goals as well as religious goals<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and many of these groups have religious beliefs which are at odds with the religious beliefs of conventional Christianity.<ref name="Barkun 1996 x2">Template:Cite book</ref>

Terminology

The literal use of the phrase Christian terrorism is disputed.<ref name="Horgan2012">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> It appears in the academic literature to describe a large range of actions and beliefs.<ref name="Horgan2012"/><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Religion can be cited as the motivation for terrorism in conflicts that have a variety of ethnic, economic and political causes, such as the one in Bosnia.<ref name="Judah2000"/> In cases such as the Lord's Resistance Army or the Taiping Rebellion the beliefs of the founders differ significantly from what is recognizably Christian.<ref name="csmonitor20111108"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In such cases the term Christian terrorism is problematic despite the claim that they are motivated by their religious beliefs.Template:Citation needed

The intimidation of minority communities along with sporadic acts of violence do not typically get referred to as terrorism.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> However, in 2015 a majority of Americans from the Democratic and Republican political parties thought that "attacks on abortion providers [should] be considered domestic terrorism".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

History

Template:Further Christianity came to prominence in the Roman Empire during and directly after the rule of Constantine the Great (324–337 AD).<ref name="Doniger">Wendy Doniger (ed.), "Constantine I", in Britannica Encyclopedia of World Religions (Encyclopædia Britannica, 2006), p. 262.</ref> By this time, it had spread throughout western Asia as a minority belief, and it had become the state religion of Armenia.<ref name="maarten">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In early Christianity, there were many rival sects, which were collectively persecuted by some rulers.<ref name=Lost/> There is, however, generally no record of these early Christian groups attempting to use acts of terrorism or indiscriminate acts of violence as religious weapons,<ref name=Lost>Template:Cite book</ref> though the Donatists fought a guerilla war against the mainstream church and the state, blinding Catholic priests to make their point.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Gaining state backing by a particular Christian sect or creed led to an increase in religious violence. This violence took the form of persecution of adherents of rival Christian beliefs and persecution of adherents of other religions.<ref name="ramsey">R. MacMullen, "Christianizing The Roman Empire A.D.100–400, Yale University Press, 1984, Template:ISBN</ref> In Europe during the Middle Ages, Christian antisemitism increased, and both the Reformation and Counter-Reformation led to an increase in interdenominational violence.<ref name="isbn0-7065-1327-4">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> As with modern examples, it is debated as to what extent these acts were religious as opposed to ethnic or political in nature.

Gunpowder Plot

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The Gunpowder Plot Conspirators (1605)

The early modern period in Britain saw religious conflict resulting from the Reformation and the recusancy that emerged in opposition to it.<ref>Template:Cite bookTemplate:Page needed</ref> The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was a failed attempt by a group of English Catholics to assassinate the Protestant King James I, and to blow up the Palace of Westminster, the English seat of government. Although the modern concept of religious terrorism, or indeed terrorism at all, had not yet come into use in the seventeenth century, David C. Rapoport and Lindsay Clutterbuck point out that the Plot, with its use of explosives, was an early precursor of nineteenth century anarchist terrorism.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Sue Mahan and Pamala L. Griset classify the plot as an act of religious terrorism, writing that "Fawkes and his colleagues justified their actions in terms of religion."<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Peter Steinfels also characterizes this plot as a notable case of religious terrorism.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Pogroms

Template:Main Template:See also Eastern Orthodox Christian-influenced movements in Romania, such as the Iron Guard and Lăncieri, which have been characterized by Yad Vashem and Stanley G. Payne as antisemitic and fascist, respectively, were involved in the Bucharest pogrom and committed numerous politically motivated murders during the 1930s.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Ioanid2004">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="yv">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name="payne">Payne, Stanley G. (1995). A History of Fascism 1914–1945. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press (pp. 277–289) Template:ISBN</ref>Template:Original research inline

Ku Klux Klan

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Ku Klux Klan members conduct a cross burning in Colorado, 1921.

In the late 1860s during the Reconstruction era, former Confederate soldiers founded the original Ku Klux Klan (KKK) organization in the Southern United States. Religion did not play a role in the first Klan and it disappeared in the 1870s. However in 1915 a new Protestant-led<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> iteration, the second Klan, was formed during a period when racism, xenophobia, nativism, and anti-Catholicism were all widespread. This second Klan vastly expanded its geographical reach and its list of targets over those of the first Klan.

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Rev. Branford Clarke's illustration in the 1926 book Klansmen: Guardians of Liberty portrays the Klan as slaying Catholic influence in the US.

Vehemently anti-Catholic, the 1915 Klan espoused an explicitly Protestant terrorist ideology, partially basing its beliefs on a "religious foundation" in Protestantism and targeting Jews and Catholics,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> as well as people who engaged in "immoral" practices such as adulterers, bad debtors, gamblers, and alcohol abusers. From an early time onward, the goals of the second KKK included an intent to reestablish Protestant values in America by any means possible in opposition to the growing threat from Jews and Catholics.<ref>Michael, Robert and Rosen, Philip. Dictionary of antisemitism from the earliest times to the present. Lanham, Maryland, US: Scarecrow Press, 1997 p. 267.</ref> Although members swore to uphold Christian morality, virtually every Christian denomination officially denounced the KKK.<ref name="Perlmutter1999">Template:Cite book</ref>

From 1915 onward, "second era" Klansmen initiated cross burnings (adapted from scenes in the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation<ref name=Wade/>), to inspire the Klansmen in a memorable new ritual modeled on medieval Scottish clan symbolism. Cross burning had never been a religious practice. The ritual of lighting crosses included singing "Onward Christian Soldiers."<ref name=Wade>Template:Cite book</ref> Modern Klan organizations remain associated with acts of domestic terrorism in the United States.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Start of modern terrorism

Mark Juergensmeyer, a former president of the American Academy of Religion, has argued that there has been a global rise in religious nationalism after the Cold War due to the post-colonial collapse of confidence in Western models of nationalism and the rise of globalization.<ref name="JuergensmeyerKitts2013">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Juergensmeyer1993">Template:Cite book</ref> Juergensmeyer categorizes contemporary Christian terrorists as being a part of "religious activists from Algeria to Idaho, who have come to hate secular governments with an almost transcendent passion and dream of revolutionary changes that will establish a godly social order in the rubble of what the citizens of most secular societies regard as modern, egalitarian democracies".<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

According to terrorism expert David C. Rapoport, a "religious wave", or a cycle, of terrorism, dates from approximately 1979 to the present. According to Rapoport, this wave most prominently features Islamic terrorism, but it also includes terrorism by Christians and other religious groups that may have been influenced by Islamic terrorism.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Reason for claiming a Christian motivation

Numerous individuals and groups have cited their Christianity or Christian beliefs as the motivation for their terrorist acts.<ref name="Pratt20102"/><ref name="RT">Template:Cite book</ref> This can mean that they see Christianity as their identity and the main reason for their existence, partially in contrast to the identities and existence of other groups which they consider threatening and non-Christian. Terrorists can also cite their interpretation of the Bible or Christian beliefs as their motivation.<ref name="RT"/> All types of terrorism have a complex interrelationship with psychology and mental health; however, only a minority of terrorists have diagnosable medical illnesses.<ref name="Bombing Alone">Template:Cite journal</ref> Christianity can also be claimed as a motive to inspire followers or curry political favor or protection. All these motivations are not independent and often complexly interwoven.<ref name="Pratt20102"/><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Christianity as an identity

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A mosque destroyed as part of anti-Muslim terrorism in Bangui, Central African Republic, December 2013

Religion is often closely tied to ethnic identity, economic standing and self image.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Should a group of Christians feel threatened, religion is a verifiable, culturally important label to use in creating a "them-and-us" mentality. This is particularly the case where both groups share membership in a broadly similar cultural group, for example the breakup of Yugoslavia and the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name="Judah2000">Template:Cite bookTemplate:Page needed</ref> In situations where the opposing ethnicities are more diverse, different skin colors and/or cultural practices are sometimes used as identifiers of the other.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In these cases terrorists may call themselves Christians, but they may not be motivated by any particular interpretation of Christian beliefs. In such cases Christianity is a label which reflects cultural, rather than directly ideological, influences.

This cultural Christian identity is often reinforced in the mind of the terrorist by media and governmental sources that vilify the other group or amplify its threat. This politicizing of ethno-religious tensions is a key contributor to the violence in the Central African Republic.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The targets of this kind of terrorist motivation include other religions or denominations, but they can also include those who the perpetrator believes are threatening to him or her in any way, such as LGBT people or members of any group which does not conform to the perpetrator's view of who they are.Template:Citation needed For example, Slovenian Catholic terrorist group the Black Hand assassinated hundreds of suspected communists, justifying it as "defense of the faith".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

When the opposing group is also Christian but belongs to a different denomination, it is often denounced as non-Christian or anti-Christian. For example, the leader of the Orange Volunteers, who described themselves as Protestant fundamentalists, defended their attacks on Catholic churches on the basis that they were "bastions of the Antichrist".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Interpretations of Christian morality or theology

Perpetrators have frequently cited Christianity as both a justification and a motivation for their actions.<ref name="RT"/> Typically, as with attacks on abortion clinics as well as with attacks on LGBT people, the perpetrators use doctrine<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> from an established Church as a justification for unsanctioned acts of violence.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> However, they may also have a wholly individual theology that deviates from established Christian dogma.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

On 12 December 2022, a fundamentalist Christian terror attack that resulted in the deaths of six people occurred in Wieambilla, Queensland, Australia.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Premillennialism was cited by police as the terrorists' motivation.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Mental health

There are a wide variety of mental health conditions and illness, and it is quite rare for them to lead to violence.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Objectively determining the mental health of a terrorist is often complicated by a number of factors.<ref name="CornerGill2016">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> There is minimal statistically robust information specifically on terrorists who claim Christian motivation. However, Gill says that about 30% of right wing, 52% of single issue, and 8% of those in a terrorist group have a mental illness.<ref name="Bombing Alone"/> Another study found that about 53% of individual terrorists could have been characterized as socially isolated before their attacks.<ref name="Bombing Alone"/> People in some terrorist groups are less likely to have a mental illness than the general population, due to the selection criteria of such groups.<ref name="CornerGill2016"/> Mental illness does not seem to unduly prevent terrorists from performing successful complex attacks.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Tactics of terrorists

Template:See also Terrorists who claim to have a Christian motivation can act alone or in groups. It is often difficult to determine if the perpetrator acted completely alone or was inspired by a religious or political group. The same problem exists with Islamic terrorism or any allegedly religiously or politically motivated act of terror.<ref name="Pratt20102"/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Anti-abortion violence

Template:See also On 16 July 2001, Peter James Knight walked into the East Melbourne Fertility Clinic, a private abortion provider, carrying a rifle and other weapons<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> including 16 litres of kerosene, three lighters, torches, 30 gags, and a handwritten note that read "We regret to advise that as a result of a fatal accident involving some members of staff, we have been forced to cancel all appointments today". Knight later stated that he intended to massacre everyone in the clinic, and attack all Melbourne abortion clinics. He developed homemade mouth gags and door jambs to restrain patients and staff inside a clinic while he doused them with the kerosene.<ref name="anderson">Template:Cite web</ref> He shot 44-year-old Stephen Gordon Rogers, a security guard, in the chest, killing him. Staff and clients overpowered him soon after.<ref name="life2">Template:Cite web</ref>

According to psychiatrist Don Sendipathy, Knight interpreted the Bible in his own unique way and he also believed in his own brand of Christianity. He believed that he needed to wage an anti-abortion crusade.<ref name="life2"/>

Eric Robert Rudolph (the perpetrator of the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in 1996) carried out bombing attacks on two abortion clinics and he also bombed a lesbian nightclub. Michael Barkun, a professor at Syracuse University, believes that Rudolph likely fits the definition of a Christian terrorist; however, James A. Aho, a professor at Idaho State University, is reluctant to use the phrase "Christian terrorist", so he calls Rudolph "a religiously inspired terrorist".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Dr. George Tiller, one of the few doctors in the United States who performed abortions late in pregnancies, was a frequent target of anti-abortion violence and in 2009, he was killed by Scott Roeder as he stood in the foyer of his church. At trial, Roeder admitted to killing Tiller and he said that he did it in order to protect the lives of unborn babies. He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. At his sentencing, he told the court that God "will avenge every drop of innocent blood," and he also stated that God’s judgment against the United States would "sweep over this land like a prairie wind."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Tiller was shot once before, in 1993, by Shelley Shannon, an anti-abortion activist who compared abortion providers to Hitler and said that she believed that "justifiable force" was necessary to stop abortions. Shannon was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the shooting of Tiller and she later confessed to vandalizing and burning a string of abortion clinics in California, Nevada and Oregon.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

James Kopp was convicted of the murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian, an obstetrician who provided abortion services in the Buffalo area, and he has also been named as a suspect in the shooting of several abortion providers in Canada. Kopp hid in the woods behind Slepian's home in October 1998 and shot him through the window with a high-powered rifle, killing him as he stood in his kitchen with his family. He was convicted on a state charge of second-degree murder in 2003 and sentenced to serve 25 years in prison. In 2007, he was convicted on a separate federal charge and sentenced to life in prison. The Canadian authorities also consider Kopp a suspect in several nonlethal attacks on Canadian abortion service providers because they believe that he shot through the windows of their homes.Template:Citation needed

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center; "Anti-abortion violence is also deeply connected to antisemitism." Five abortion providers were killed in sniper attacks in the 1990s, out of whom four were Jewish, as was Slepian. Eric Rudolph was also known as a Holocaust denier.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The November 2015 Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting, in which three people were killed and nine people were injured, was described as "a form of terrorism" by Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The gunman, Robert Lewis Dear, was described as a "delusional" man<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> because on an internet forum, he had written that "sinners" would "burn in hell" during the end times.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He had praised the Army of God, stating that attacks on abortion clinics are "God's work".<ref name="nytdear">Template:Cite web</ref> Dear's ex-wife said that he had put glue on a lock of a Planned Parenthood clinic, and in court documents which pertained to their divorce, she said "He claims to be a Christian and is extremely evangelistic, but does not follow the Bible in his actions. He says that as long as he believes he will be saved, he can do whatever he pleases. He is obsessed with the world coming to an end."<ref name="nytdear" />

The Army of God is an American Christian terrorist organization; its members have perpetrated acts of anti-abortion violence.<ref name="start">Template:Cite web</ref> Similarly, the members of the Aryan Nations, classified by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as a "terrorist threat",<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> subscribe to the anti-abortion cause as a part of "the Holy War for the pure Aryan race."<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Aryan Nations is tied to cases of anti-abortion violence; for example Eric Rudolph was in contact with the group.<ref name="Cooperman">Template:Cite news</ref>

Anti-minority violence

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The Poway synagogue shooting perpetrator expressed Christian motives for killing Jews.<ref name="Mattingly2019">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="ZauzmerWeil2019">Template:Cite news</ref>
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Memorial to the victims of the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue shooting in 2018. The shooter had said that "Jews are the children of Satan".<ref name=Bowers/>

Richard Wayne Snell, a member of The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord, shot a man presumed to be Jewish and a black police officer in 1983 and 1984 respectively. He was executed in 1995.<ref>"White Supremacist Executed For Murdering 2 in Arkansas." The New York Times. April 21, 1995. Retrieved on March 13, 2015. "VARNER, Ark., April 20— Richard Wayne Snell, a white supremacist who expressed no remorse for killing a Jewish businessman and a black police officer, was put to death by lethal injection on Wednesday night,...While insisting they had taken no extraordinary precautions against possible efforts to interfere with the execution, the police were visible at the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas prison system. Mr. Snell was taken to the execution site here on Monday by National Guard helicopter before dawn."</ref>

Gary Matson and Winfield Mowder were a gay couple from Redding, California, who were murdered by Benjamin Matthew Williams and James Tyler Williams in 1999. Neighbors said that the family of the Williams Brothers was known for its fundamentalist Christian beliefs, and they also said that recordings of sermons and religious music were frequently heard from their house.<ref name="PosterBoys2">Template:Cite news</ref> The two perpetrators of the murder are believed to have had ties to the Christian Identity movement. They were also suspected of playing a role in 18 arson attacks on three synagogues.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 1996, three men who claimed to be Phineas priests—Charles Barbee, Robert Berry and Jay Merelle—were charged with two bank robberies and bombings at the banks, the bombing of a Spokane newspaper, and the bombing of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Washington state. The men were antisemitic Christian Identity theorists who believed that God wanted them to carry out violent attacks and they also believed that such attacks would hasten the ascendancy of the Aryan race.<ref name="UnderstandingTerrorism">Template:Cite bookTemplate:Page needed</ref>

In 2015, Robert Doggart, a 63-year-old mechanical engineer, was indicted for solicitation to commit a civil rights violation by intending to damage or destroy religious property after he stated that he intended to amass weapons and attack Islamberg, an Islamic hamlet and religious community in Delaware County, New York.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Doggart, a member of several private militia groups, spoke to an FBI source during a phone call and stated that he had an M4 carbine with "500 rounds of ammunition" that he intended to take to the Delaware County enclave, along with a handgun, Molotov cocktails and a machete. The FBI source recorded him saying "if it gets down to the machete, we will cut them to shreds".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Doggart had previously travelled to a site in Dover, Tennessee, which had been described as a "jihadist training camp", in chain emails and found that the claims were wrong. In April, Doggart accepted a plea bargain and stated that he had "willfully and knowingly sent a message in interstate commerce containing a true threat" to injure someone. The plea bargain was struck down by a judge because it did not contain enough facts to constitute a true threat.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Doggart describes himself as a Christian minister in the "Christian National (Congregational) Church" (apparently, the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> None of the charges against him are terrorism related, however, some groups have described his actions as such.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

According to University of Auckland Professor Douglas Pratt, who is an international expert on religious terrorism, the Christchurch mosque shootings by Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant, which killed 51 people and injured 50 more people (primarily Muslims) at the Al Noor Mosque and the Linwood Islamic Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, were a form of "Christian terrorism" and white supremacy. Tarrant's manifesto The Great Replacement, which is named after the French far-right conspiracy theory bearing the same name, quoted Pope Urban II (who ordered the First Crusade) and demanded the retaking of Jerusalem, stated Tarrant's wish that Istanbul (aka Constantinople) should be taken from Turkey so it will be back in Christian hands and he finally stated that Tarrant's main motive for the attacks was revenge against Islam. The shooter's rifles were covered with white supremacist symbols and the names of various historical non-Muslim figures who waged battles against Muslims.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

The perpetrator of the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue shooting, Robert Bowers, stated that "Jews are the children of Satan" on the bio of his Gab account.<ref name=Bowers>Template:Cite news</ref> The Poway synagogue shooting suspect John T. Earnest cited Bible quotes to justify his attack.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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References

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