{"id":3075,"date":"2009-06-01T00:02:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T22:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=3075"},"modified":"2009-06-01T00:17:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T22:17:49","slug":"why-don%c2%b4t-we-call-people-who-murder-doctors-christian-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=3075","title":{"rendered":"Why don\u00b4t we call people who murder doctors Christian terrorists?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today Dr George Tiller of Wichita, Kansas was shot and killed<\/a>. If he is found to have been killed because he performed abortions, most likely, he will be one of many victims of this type of violence. According to CNN: <\/p>\n

If Tiller was slain because of his work, he would be the fourth U.S. physician killed by abortion opponents since 1993. In addition, a nurse at a Birmingham, Alabama, clinic was maimed and an off-duty police officer was killed in a 1998 bombing by Eric Rudolph, who included abortion among his list of anti-government grievances.
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To me these murders are clearly acts of terrorism. They fit the definition of terrorism because they are violent acts inflicted on a small group of people with the intention to scare and change the behavior of a large group of people. Yet media does not call these murders acts “Christian terrorism”. They don\u00b4t because, as we all know, most Christians are not terrorists. But how come then if most Muslims are not terrorists we call terrorists who are Muslim, Muslim or Islamic terrorists?<\/p>\n

I end with an account about Dr George Tiller from Planned Parenthood<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dr. Tiller was the epitome of high quality medical care underscored by deep compassion for his patients. While he was not a Planned Parenthood provider, Dr. Tiller provided critical reproductive health care services, including abortion services, to women facing some of the most difficult medical circumstances. He was continually harassed by abortion opponents for much of his career – his clinic was burned down, he was shot by a health center protestor, and he was recently targeted for investigation only to be acquitted by a jury just a few months ago<\/em>. <\/p>\n

A life of terror.<\/p>\n

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Today Dr George Tiller of Wichita, Kansas was shot and killed. If he is found to have been killed because he performed abortions, most likely, he will be one of many victims of this type of violence. According to CNN: If Tiller was slain because of his work, he would be the fourth U.S. physician […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t