When was the last time a radical fundamentalist Christian terrorist bombed an abortion clinic?

Question

It seems like every time people point at the brutal acts being committed by the followers of the religion which apporoves violence towards "non-believers", someone pops out of the peanut gallery and points at the acts of Christians which happened decades or even centuries ago.

Why can't people focus on the here and now instead of cowardly using diversionary tactics to avoid addressing the issue at hand?

Last bombing: 1984...22 years ago.
Then comes a huge list of non-bombing incidents...

I rest my case (lol!)

Answer 1

Brilliant question, I hate the way people did that too. It's the same thing as apologizing for something my great great grandfather did when he was alive!? Its just not plausible, at the end of the day, the only people who are causing death in this country NOW, are Muslims and atheists, simple as that really...

EDIT, I'd like to ask poki poki, where in all this vast information did it say that those were done by Christians....?

Answer 2

Just because bombings don't take place doesn't mean there aren't hate crimes committed by christians. Not long ago a Christian man killed a doctor who worked at an abortion clinic, how is that any different in severity than bombing? The guy that killed him still thinks he was doing God's work and many self-righteous Christians support him even though he's in jail. What exactly does this say?

I think you're the one that's not focusing and using "cowardly" diversionary tactics by singling out bombings. The methods may be different but the intent is still the same.

Answer 3

I think people point out those acts to remind people that although there are crazy individuals in every religion who commit horrible crimes that doesn't mean all the followers of that religion are like that. For example right now a lot of people hate muslims because some muslim extremists have committed horrible crimes in the past few years and people tend to jump to the conclusion that all muslims are evil, blood-thirsty terrorists. You see a lot of Christians hating on muslims nowadays, so maybe they need some reminders.

The Nazis were Christians and certainly did horrible things. That doesn't mean that all Christians (now and then) are bad. There are just rotten apples in every religion. Muslims don't like being called terrorists any more than Christians like being called Nazis.

People need to learn to stop labelling entire groups of people based on the actions of a few individuals. People should focus on the actual problems rather than point the finger at entire religions.

Answer 4

It cannot be truthfully said that *any* generalized group causes crime, death, terrorism, etc. Radical individuals bomb clinics and shoot doctors. Radical individuals suicide bomb a group of people. These people are not Christian, Muslim, etc. in the collective sense (or--if you have read the Gospel or Qu'ran--*any* sense).

Answer 5

the violence is going on INSIDE the abortion clinic.....you should consider what they are doing in there..... there have been millions of babies put to death..the accepted christian approach is to go through the legal system to correct wrongs...not bomb clinics..

Answer 6

1984-JUN: An abortion clinic was bombed
bullet1984-DEC: The same clinic was bombed again
bullet1986-MAR: A second clinic was broken into and vandalized; two female employees were assaulted. John Burt, a former member of the KKK, and his daughter were tried and convicted. John Burt became the local leader of Rescue America.
bullet1993-MAR: Michael Griffin, allegedly a member of Rescue America, killed Dr. David Gunn outside an abortion clinic. Griffin's lawyers claimed that Burt had brainwashed Griffin into committing the killing. (There is a consensus among mental health professionals that this sort of "Manchurian Candidate" programming is impossible). Griffin was convicted and given a life sentence.
bullet1994-JUL: Paul Hill, a former Presbyterian minister and leader in Defensive Action killed a physician and bodyguard outside another abortion clinic; he wounded the wife of the bodyguard. He was sentenced to both life imprisonment on federal charges, and execution on state charges.
bullet1994-AUG: Five KKK groups demonstrated adjacent to an abortion clinic in Melbourne FL. They were opposed to abortions given to whites; they encourage abortions to persons of other races. They named Hill their hero of the month.

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The "killing season" in Canada and northern New York state:

Late October and early November esd referred to as the "killing season" by some abortion-rights advocates. Abortion providers in northern New York state and Canada were attacked on five of the six years from 1994 to 1998:
bullet1994-NOV-8: Dr. Garson Romalis of Vancouver BC was shot in the leg.
bullet1995-NOV-10: Dr. Hugh Short of Ancaster ON (Near Hamilton) was shot in the elbow.
bullet1996: No shootings occurred.
bullet1997-OCT-28: A physician in Rochester NY received minor shrapnel wounds.
bullet1997-NOV-11: Dr Jack Fainman of Winnipeg MN was shot in the shoulder.
bullet1998-OCT-23: Dr Barnett Slepian from Amherst NY (near Buffalo) was murdered.

All five were shot through a glass window or door at their homes. Rewards totaling $547,000 (about $365,000 in US funds) were offered by Canadian authorities for information leading to the conviction of the person(s) responsible. There is speculation that the timing of the shootings was tied to Remembrance Day, celebrated in Canada on NOV-11, and to Veteran's Day celebrated in the U.S. on the same day. This is the occasion when the country remembers its war dead. The shooter in each case used a rifle, and shot from the rear of the doctors' homes at dusk or in the evening. James Charles Kopp (a.k.a. Atomic Dog) was indicted in 1999-JUN for the murder of Dr. Slepian. He was on the FBI's "10 most wanted Fugitives" list for years until he was arrested in France and returned to the U.S. for trial. It is obvious that Kopp was helped to remain out of sight by an underground group.

In 2003-MAY, James Kopp was given the maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison for the Slepian murder. He claims that the death of Dr. Slepian was an accident; he only meant to injure or disable him. Some speculate that Kopp was also responsible for the other "killing season" attempted murders.

Answer 7

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