Well, in these cases, the perpetrator is usually not associated or given orders by any specific Christian organization. Often they are people who have been radicalized while spending too much time digging into the cesspits of the internet. You could say the propietors of false and hateful messaging on the internet are the organizations giving out marching orders but those people are far too nebulous and indirect to place blame on them and remove their freedom of speech.
Perhaps it is just semantics, but I thought I got this from when the government was introducing us to what terrorism is defined as, according to the g-men. Groups with a specific agenda using the tools of fear and confusion to enact their will are, to me, terrorists.
These lone wolf guys, to me, those are extremists who commit acts of terror but are not a part of the existential threat we refer to as terrorism.
Its all bad crap, but I do want to keep separate terrorist organization like ISIS separate from extremists like the recent Quebec Mosque shooter. They require wholly different approaches to deal with and should not be conflated together as terrorism. Doing so will ensure you ignore problems that only come from one side of the equation.
hummmm interesting take.
first off I 100% agree ISIS is a terrorist organisation.
proportionate steps should be taken to prevent ISIS "soldiers" (individuals specifically travelling to the US, possibly after experience or training in ISIS territory/camps to attack) entering the UK/US etc.
the steps to do this will be things like vetting, visa etc.
on the other hand the steps needed to combat self radicalising "lone wolf" types (be the cause Islamic, pro life, neo , militia) are different.
for a start, they are already here (by definition) so immigration controls are ineffective.
what we can do is
a) intelligence - who is becoming radicalised? what are the signs etc.
b) counter radicalisation of those identified as being, or at risk of being radicalised
c) reducing the radicalising triggers.
it's (c) that is most impacted by the immigration order. it's the perfect propaganda tool.
remember Waco? this act, plus a few more was a rallying call to those already unhappy with the federal government and became a catalyst for transforming the disaffected to radicals.
the Waco incident was a direct trigger to the Oklahoma bombing.
if the ATF hadn't botched the Waco siege, either by preventing it happening or by deescalating it peacefully then Oklahoma wouldn't have happened.
this immigration order is another Waco incident. there
will be terrorist attacks in the US, probably by someone already there, maybe a recent arrival or maybe a second or third generation immigrant (i.e. an American) or even a convert none of who would have been stopped by the order but whose reason for the attack was the order.
and when, and it might be a decade, it happens Trump will be directly to blame.
