Terrorist Or Freedom Fighter?

Can we give the word Terror and its derivatives a retirement party?

So Much Terror, So Little Time

I saw this on a Mom Site here on Substack. It is designed to inflame Muslim OTHERING. OTHERING is the habit of finding faults with others, so you can blame them. The function of blame is to remain innocent.

“OTHER did it, so I am not responsible. I am clean. OTHER is dirty.”

A Terrible List

A Mom site posted this on a Substack site. I don’t care to make her into a villain. She’s not the only person doing this work. Her list follows below.

Conflate religion with anything you wish to demonize and you will find an audience, because we people seem to enjoy finger pointing. Terrorism is not unique to Islam, although the following list would make it seem so.

Do we know what has happened in their countries to force them into retribution? It’s a question. Not a justification. I want to know if my governors and CEOs have done bad things to these people and thus have endangered my family in my home country. I seldom hear these full stories. Why not? What terrors have been wrought in our name?

Does that mom know why those Muslim men did terror on us? It may have less to do with their religion than we know. Maybe it has more to do with their Arabian lives disrupted for generations by American/European interests. It may have to do with Western interventions in the forms of business brutalizing their cultures and natural resources for several generations.

Blaming the victim is called punching down and is supposedly unsportsmanlike but that doesn’t stop the blamers. After husband #2 beat me senseless his friends backed away from me. Nobody likes a bruised victim. Looser!

No one wants to admit they are backing the wrong team. I can’t understand why “oops” is so hard to say. But heck, I say it all the time. It must be a loser’s word.

Beyond the nourishment of food, we need the nourishing glow of humun rights. Dignity, perhaps. Calories measured in heartbeats. We want the right to eat food beside others who are also eating food, which is always a better situation than starving as the neighbor gets fat.

From within a tall wall they cannot watch the fat neighbors eat from the trees of their ancestors. They rebel, then escape from captivity. How Terrorist of them.

I am just a confused old lady. Don’t ask me how that works. As for humun rights, I thought the only right is the right to die. And to struggle. And to endure pain. Oops, there goes my Saturn getting the upper hand again. Down demon!

People who indulge in this sort of Proof of Evil-ness rhetoric have been captured by the “I am right” Yang brain which is the assertive, aggressive, attack dog side of their heads.

There be psychopaths! Watch out because their religion is Domination.

Wimmin have a left-brain too, so this is not anti-man stuff, and this Mom post demonstrates it. Her Left Brain Tyrant is in charge of her life, as evidenced by her list of terrible Muslims. Are religious fanatics or freedom fighters. Our forefathers were terrorists to the British when exploitation got out of hand.

But we have allowed our Logical left brain to believe that he knows the whole story and that his will should override the Big Project, which is called LIVING. Also known as BEING. He is not a great judge of character, his motto being “Kill it first, then find out If it’s good to eat.”

We Humuns also have a Right Brain. All creatures do, but we Humuns have a moral mandate to cognate, which directs us to ask if we are doing the ‘right thing’. We struggle to understand right-use-ness. Can it be proven? Is it justified? What has led us to this conclusion? Who directed the inquiry?

Humuns are mental gymnasts. We leap about with our minds, left to right and repeat, but lately, a few millennia, we have preferred proof over mystery. Can the proving grounds of our minds ever be Humane? The left brain is good at tasks but its hubris is tyrannical when untempered by the compassionate right brain.

I asked the Google to give me examples of a few religious wars in history. I got the Crusades, where they tried to get the Muslims out of their own place. The Thirty Years War where Catholics and Protestants murdered each other for thirty years in England. The French Wars of Religion between Catholics and Protestant Huguenots. The Taiping Rebellion; a massive civil war in China where Christians were trying to change the Chinese in their own country. The English Civil War, when some Protestants fought Church of England Protestants. Also, there have been quite a lot of Hindu, Muslim conflicts.

So here’s a counter-list: 25 terrorist or mass violence incidents perpetrated by non-Muslims, including Christians, white nationalists, atheists, and others. Many of them were explicitly ideological. Some were racially motivated. A few were deeply religious. And several could have been Black Ops. But all were violent, all were real, and all were ignored in the original list.

Chat GPT made a list for this article….

📚 25 Terror Attacks by Non-Muslims

1 Oklahoma City Bombing (1995) Timothy McVeigh - Anti-government, right-wing

2 Atlanta Olympics Bombing (1996) Eric Rudolph - Christian extremist

3 Norway Attacks (2011) Anders Breivik - Far-right, anti-Muslim

4 Charleston Church Shooting (2015) Dylann Roof - White supremacist

5 Christchurch Mosque Shootings (2019) Brenton Tarrant - White nationalist

6 Planned Parenthood Shooting (2015) Robert Dear - Anti-abortion, Christian

7 Buffalo Supermarket Shooting (2022) Payton Gendron - White supremacist

8 Las Vegas Shooting (2017) Stephen Paddock - Motive unknown

9 Sandy Hook Shooting (2012) Adam Lanza - No ideology

10 Uvalde School Shooting (2022) Salvador Ramos - No ideology

11 Lord’s Resistance Army Joseph Kony - Christian cult

12 Germany Synagogue Attack (2020) Stephan Balliet - Neo-Nazi

13 Knoxville Church Shooting (2008) Jim David Adkisson - Right-wing extremist

14 Kansas JCC Shootings (2014) Frazier Glenn Miller - White supremacist

15 Norway Baneheia Murders (2000) Viggo Kristiansen - Not political, used in political rhetoric

16 Waukesha Parade Attack (2021) Darrell Brooks - Racially motivated

17 Delhi Riots (2020) Hindu mobs - Hindu nationalist

18 Gujarat Riots (2002) Hindu mobs - Ethnic violence

19 Japan Sagamihara Massacre (2016) Satoshi Uematsu - Eugenics extremist

20 Oslo LGBTQ Attack (2022) Zaniar Matapour -Ideology unclear

21 Nashville Bombing (2020) Anthony Warner - Anti-5G conspiracy

22 Boston Children’s Hospital Bomb Threat (2022) Far-right extremist - Anti-trans ideology

23 Sikh Temple Shooting (Oak Creek, 2012) Wade Michael Page - Neo-Nazi

24 Beslan School Siege (2004) Chechen militants - Ethno-political

25 Mumbai Train Bombings (2006) Indian Mujahideen (Note: Not all attackers were Muslim) - Regional insurgency

Note: Many of these cases involve political, racial, or personal motives. The common thread is violence, not religion.

Thank you Chat

No one is immune from criticism but painting 1.9 billion people with a single brush isn't simply unfair — it's blame game 101. Basic punch down. It oversimplifies the reality of people living lives that are often abusive, deprived and misguided. So it goes in Modernian culture where There Can Be Only One.

Yes, I blame monotheism. Have you met me? I always tag it as the source of all ills. It is my true belief that the Single Bachelor God mentality has permeated the entirety of Modern Western thought and it is slowly unwinding with the new moniker of Multipolarity taking its place.

When you see OTHERS vilified, ask yourself, “What's being left out? Who's being silenced? And who benefits from keeping us afraid of each other?”

Because the truth is, we all lose when fear wins, and because we often can’t smell our own kitty litter boxes.

Blame is Bad. Clean your litter box every day for good emotional hygiene.