Christian Terrorist?

Much has been made of the claim that Anders Behring Breivik is a Christian terrorist. A few months ago I blogged about Muslim terrorist and pointed out that a certain percentage of Muslims are dedicated to violence. The only thing we can do with them is kill or imprison them. That begs the question of whether there are Christians who are dedicated to violence. Those that we must either kill or imprison. It can be argued that Breivik is one such person.
As I often see it, such a statement is only partially true. It does not seem to me that Breivik is a good example of a Christian terrorist. The citations I have seen in his "writings" indicates that he is discussing a cultural Christianity and he sees Christianity more as an anti-Islam system than a intrinsic belief system. A better example would be Paul Ross Evans who was convicted of attempting to bomb an abortion clinic. He openly talks about having a Christian motivation for his actions.
Christian terrorists do exists. But they are very few and far between relative to Islamic terrorists. That is not a politically correct statement but it is a true one. Any reasonable, knowledgeable person would make that conclusion. But it is of interest how fast the media was to tie Breivik to Christian terrorism. They were not so fast to tie Major Nidal Hasan Islamic terrorism. The same New York Times that ran the "Christian Terrorist" headline for Breivik barely mentioned the Islamic faith of Hasan as his motivation in the body of their stories even though he shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he did his shooting.
Why this unequal treatment.?Here I must engage in speculation. I think that there is an eagerness to argue that there is an equal level of Christian terrorism as there is Islamic terrorism. Perhaps some individuals hostile to religion want to show that all religions are equally violent. Others may believe that Muslims are victims in a Christian society and so it is not fair to point out that there is more violence tied to contemporary Islamic terrorism than contemporary Christian terrorism. Either reason is a distortion to reality and hampers us as we try to deal with violence.
Finally, I know that it may be considered Islamophobic to point out that Islamic terrorism is more prevalent today than Christian terrorism. That is too bad since if we do not recognize this difference then we are hiding from reality. If I am walking by myself on a dark street and notice five men coming behind me I will be a little more scared than if I see five women walking behind me. That does not make me anti-male but just that I am aware that men are more likely to commit violence than women. Likewise let us be honest about the reality of religious terrorism today.

Sincerely,

Trouble-Maker