Extremism Rises Among Myanmar Buddhists

By THOMAS FULLER

... a Buddhist monk with a rock-star following in Myanmar, sat before an overflowing crowd of thousands of devotees and launched into a rant against what he called “the enemy” — the country’s Muslim minority.

“You can be full of kindness and love, but you cannot sleep next to a mad dog,” Ashin Wirathu said, referring to Muslims.

“I call them troublemakers, because they are troublemakers,” Ashin Wirathu told a reporter after his two-hour sermon. “I am proud to be called a radical Buddhist.”

... over the past year, images of rampaging Burmese Buddhists carrying swords and the vituperative sermons of monks like Ashin Wirathu have underlined the rise of extreme Buddhism in Myanmar — and revealed a darker side of the country’s greater freedoms after decades of military rule. Buddhist lynch mobs have killed more than 200 Muslims and forced more than 150,000 people, mostly Muslims, from their homes.

Ashin Wirathu,  his critics say that at the very least his anti-Muslim preaching is helping to inspire the violence.

What began last year on the fringes of Burmese society has grown into a nationwide movement whose agenda now includes boycotts of Muslim-made goods. Its message is spreading through regular sermons across the country that draw thousands of people and through widely distributed DVDs of those talks. Buddhist monasteries associated with the movement are also opening community centers and a Sunday school program for 60,000 Buddhist children nationwide.

In his recent sermon, he described the reported massacre of schoolchildren and other Muslim inhabitants in the central city of Meiktila in March, documented by a human rights group, as a show of strength.

“If we are weak,” he said, “our land will become Muslim.”

Buddhism would seem to have a secure place in Myanmar. Nine in 10 people are Buddhist, as are nearly all the top leaders in the business world, the government, the military and the police. Estimates of the Muslim minority range from 4 percent to 8 percent of Myanmar’s roughly 55 million people while the rest are mostly Christian or Hindu.

But Ashin Wirathu, who describes himself as a nationalist, says Buddhism is under siege by Muslims who are having more children than Buddhists and buying up Buddhist-owned land. In part, he is tapping into historical grievances that date from British colonial days when Indians, many of them Muslims, were brought into the country as civil servants and soldiers.

There is wide disdain in Myanmar for a group of about one million stateless Muslims, who call themselves Rohingya, some of whom migrated from Bangladesh. Clashes between the Rohingya and Buddhists last year in western Myanmar roiled the Buddhist community and appear to have played a role in later outbreaks of violence throughout the country. Ashin Wirathu said they served as his inspiration to spread his teachings.

The theme song to Ashin Wirathu’s movement speaks of people who “live in our land, drink our water, and are ungrateful to us.”

“We will build a fence with our bones if necessary,” runs the song’s refrain. Muslims are not explicitly mentioned in the song but Ashin Wirathu said the lyrics refer to them. Pamphlets handed out at his sermon demonizing Muslims said that “Myanmar is currently facing a most dangerous and fearful poison that is severe enough to eradicate all civilization.”

RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM & FUNDAMENTALISM - RELIGIOUS RIGHT

Compiled by Sheila Musaji

For extremist Christian statements see Christian Brotherly Love Difficult for Some to Attain
For extremist Jewish statements see Jewish “Ahavah shel achvah” Brotherly Love is Difficult for Some to Attain

For actual incidents and terrorists acts committed by non-Muslims see Claim that all terrorists are Muslims ignores history and Christian Extremism and Terrorism - article collection, Sheila Musaji

(Note:  in combining previous sections there are still some format differences which will be corrected as soon as possible.  We apologize.)

INTRODUCTION

There have been many voices in the Christian and Jewish communities who have spoken out strongly against extremism that exists in the Muslim community, and against terrorism committed by Muslims, and that would be laudable if they also spoke out as strongly against the extremism and terrorism committed by their own co-religionists.  American Muslims have been very reticent to speak up for fear of widening the growing division between the Abrahamic communities.  However, the situation has now reached a stage that we need to speak up and say enough!

In an article Muslims must condemn religious extremists I said:

  I am reading and hearing in the media a barrage of articles and editorials demanding that Muslims take a stand against those who condone or commit acts of violence.  I would like to go on record as condemning all religious extremism, bigotry, violence, hatred, and terrorism by both Muslims and non-Muslims.  I see no difference between any of these.  These merchants of hate no matter what their supposed religious affiliation have more in common with each other than they do with the majority of individuals in their respective religious faiths.

Our society is whirling down a spiral of violence of which terrorism is the face, that is currently at the front of our minds. 

There is a growing exploitation by religious extremists, political extremists, nationalist extremists, etc.  All of these share a “religious” element in that they are all convinced that they are God’s agents to bring about and enforce their “right” belief on everyone else, and that they, and they alone - know the “right” way.  This “religious” element is particularly dangerous because it is devoid of spirituality.

More innocent lives are in danger today than in any previous period of history.  The entire world is in danger.  We are at the beginning of a new century and a new millenium, and it is possible that we will not complete either without destroying ourselves. 

We are in the midst of wars between the different families of Abraham - Jews, Christians, and Muslims.  Some of the family members actually define these wars as religiously required.  Even worse, there are groups within the Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities that are trying to incite and create an all-out war between Islam and “the West.” Such a war would bring misery upon the peoples of all nations.  Some of these people believe that the Apocalypse is not a teaching story (about what could happen if we don’t take the heart of our religious teachings seriously) but, a goal to be achieved. 

We need to attempt to do something about this tidal wave of violence.  We can only do this together.  What we need right now is for all Americans to work together to try to understand what we can about what are the red flags that might indicate when individuals holding extremist views about religion, politics, or anything else might be ready to go from expressing those views to acting on them with violence, so that we might find a way to stop them before they act.

Instead of a violent World War III, I would hope to see a Spiritual battle, a battle for hearts and minds.  This would be the greatest jihad.  In this counter vision of war, the goals would be to see: compassion win the war over anger; forgiveness win the war over revenge; intelligence win the war over passive acceptance; truth win the war over lies; love win the war over hatred; creativity win the war over continuing on a well worn and tired path of endless violence.  The only way this can happen is if there is a real coming together of our spiritual brothers and sisters across the globe from heart to heart and spirit to spirit and mind to mind to end the madness of fighting and create a better world.

It is in that spirit that these collections of articles documenting extremism and terrorism on the part of non-Muslims needs to be made available.  The Muslim extremists get the most press, but they are not alone.

APOCALYPSE/ ARMAGEDDON/ END TIMES - CHRISTIAN & JEWISH & MUSLIM:

(see also Red Heifer, Rapture, and Temple Mount)
America’s Armageddonites,  Jon Basil Utley http://www.antiwar.com/utley/?articleid=11735
Apocalyptic Millennialism Resource Page http://www.publiceye.org/tooclose/apoc.html
Apocalyptic Radicalism and Religion http://www.beliefnet.com/frameset_offsite.asp?pageLoc=http%3A%2F%2Fandromeda%2Erutgers%2Eedu%2F%7Ezahavy%2Fapocalyptic%2Ehtml&query=&script=/index/index_20395.html
Apocalypticism Explained http://www.beliefnet.com/frameset_offsite.asp?pageLoc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Epbs%2Eorg%2Fwgbh%2Fpages%2Ffrontline%2Fshows%2Fapocalypse%2Fexplanation%2F&query=&script=/index/index_20395.htm
The Apostles of Deception http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17536.htm
Armageddon Anxiety - Evil on the Way, William Cookhttp://www.counterpunch.org/cook02222003.html
Armageddon Politics: The Rule of the Righteous Oneshttp://www.metahistory.org/ArmageddonPolitics.php
The Armageddon Lobby: Dispensationalist Christian Zionism and the Shaping of US Policy Towards Israel-Palestine, Rammy M. Haija http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/holy_land_studies/v005/5.1haija.pdf
Armageddon: The Rapture Index http://www.raptureready.com/rap2.html
Armageddon Theology: The Most Dangerous Cult in the World http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/Laura-Knight-Jadczyk/fastest_growing_cult.htm
Armageddon Wish, Paul Craig Roberts http://www.iviews.com/Articles/articles.asp?ref=IV0606-3015
Avoiding Armageddon (PBS documentary) http://www.pbs.org/avoidingarmageddon/
Avoiding Armageddon, Martin Schram http://www.amazon.com/Avoiding-Armageddon-Companion-Book-PBS/dp/0465072550/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251741762&sr=1-1
Book Review:  The Politics of Apocalypse—The History and Influence of Christian Zionism (Cohn-Sherbook), Yoginder Sikandhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/book_review_the_politics_of_apocalypsethe_history_and_influence_of_christia/  2008
Book Review: On the Road to Armageddon: How Evangelicals Became Israel’s Best Friendhttp://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=4&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=625&PID=1666&IID=1696&TTL=Sarah_Schmidt_on_On_the_Road_to_Armageddon:_How_Evangelicals_Became_Israel%E2%80%99s_Best_Friend
Book Review:  Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypsehttp://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/rdbook/306/rdbook%3A_the_end_of_the_world_as_we_know_it
The Brutal Christ of the Armageddonites, Religious fanaticism in American foreign policy, Jon Basil Utleyhttp://www.antiwar.com/utley/?articleid=8588
Christian & Jewish Beliefs Regarding The Return Of The Messiah and Plots Against Masjid Al-Aqsa, Alia Amer http://www.islaam.com/Article.aspx?id=504
Disarming Armageddon http://www.opensourcetheology.net/node/841
The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount, Gershom Gorenberghttp://www.amazon.com/End-Days-Fundamentalism-Struggle-Temple/dp/0195152050/ref=pd_sim_b_10
Film Review:  Waiting for Armageddon http://jewish-politics-ny.com/2009/03/26/%E2%80%9Cwaiting-for-armageddon%E2%80%9D-israel-and-the-jews/
“For Evangelicals, Supporting Israel is ‘God’s Foreign Policy’”http://www.cmep.org/Alerts/2006Nov16.htm
Is Obama the Antichrist? Why Armageddon Stands Between the President and the Evangelical Votehttp://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/oped/1671/is_obama_the_antichrist_why_armageddon_stands_between_the_president_and_the_evangelical_vote
Joel’s Army - praying for Armageddon http://www.alternet.org/story/96945/
Last Days http://www.floodlight.org/theory/sub1.html
Hal Lindsey: Father of Apocalyptic Christian Zionismhttp://www.virginiawater.co.uk/christchurch/articles/hallindsey.HTM
Lobbying For Armageddon http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/39748
McCain, Hagee and Armageddon as Foreign Policyhttp://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/000958.htm
Onward Bush’s soldiers: War with Iraq is ‘dress rehearsal for Armageddon’ says head of Evangelical Israel Broadcasting Network http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=14656
Politics of Apocalypse http://www.beliefnet.com/frameset_offsite.asp?pageLoc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eatheists%2Eorg%2Fflash%2Eline%2Fmideast1%2Ehtm&query=&script=/index/index_20395.html
Religion: Armageddon and the End Times, Richard N. Ostling;Michael P. Harris;James Castellihttp://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,954482,00.html
Pat Robertson in the Temple http://www.counterpunch.org/grebe04242003.html
The Senator’s armageddon and judgment day article about current events, William Gordenhttp://www.examiner.com/x-11190-Cleveland-Faith—Doubt-Examiner~y2009m9d29-The-Senators-armageddon-and-judgment-day
Some Christians See A “Road Map” to End Times, http://iviews.com/articles/Articles.asp?ref=LT0306-2007

BOOKS ON FUNDAMENTALISM AND EXTREMISM:

Fundamentalism and American Culture, George M. Marsden http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentalism-American-Culture-George-Marsden/dp/0195300475/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251739808&sr=1-1
Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Polities, Economies, and Militance (The Fundamentalism Project) , Martin E. Marty http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentalisms-State-Economies-Militance-Fundamentalism/dp/0226508846/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_c
Fundamentalisms Comprehended (The Fundamentalism Project), Martin E. Martyhttp://www.amazon.com/Fundamentalisms-Comprehended-Fundamentalism-Project-Martin/dp/0226508889/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b
Fundamentalisms Observed (The Fundamentalism Project) , Martin E. Martyhttp://www.amazon.com/Fundamentalisms-Observed-Fundamentalism-Project-Martin/dp/0226508781/ref=pd_sim_b_1
Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, Michelle Goldberghttp://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Coming-Rise-Christian-Nationalism/dp/0393329763/ref=pd_sim_b_7
On the Road to Armageddon: How Evangelicals Became Israel’s Best Friend, Timothy P. Weberhttp://www.amazon.com/Road-Armageddon-Evangelicals-Became-Israels/dp/0801031427/ref=pd_sim_b_2
The Politics of Apocalypse: The History and Influence of Christian Zionism, Dan Cohn-Sherbokhttp://www.amazon.com/Politics-Apocalypse-History-Influence-Christian/dp/1851684530/ref=pd_sim_b_3
Prophecy and Politics: Militant Evangelists on the Road to Nuclear War, Grace Halsellhttp://www.amazon.com/Prophecy-Politics-Militant-Evangelists-Nuclear/dp/0882082108
Racing Toward Armageddon: The Three Great Religions and the Plot to End the World, Michael Baegent http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061363189?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwfriendlyat-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0061363189
Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalisms around the World (The Fundamentalism Project), Almond, Appleby, Sivan http://www.amazon.com/Strong-Religion-Fundamentalisms-Fundamentalism-Project/dp/0226014983
Studies in Muslim Apocalyptic (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam), David Cookhttp://www.amazon.com/Studies-Muslim-Apocalyptic-Antiquity-Early/dp/0878501428
Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism,  George M. Marsdenhttp://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Fundamentalism-Evangelicalism-George-Marsden/dp/0802805396/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b
When Religion Becomes Evil: Five Warning Signs (Plus) (Paperback), Charles Kimballhttp://www.amazon.com/When-Religion-Becomes-Evil-Warning/dp/0061552011/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251739746&sr=1-1

BUDDHIST EXTREMISM:

see claim that all terrorists are Muslim ignores history - article collection

CHRISTIAN ZIONISM:

Biblical Prophecy and Christian Zionism, Gary Leupphttp://www.counterpunch.com/leupp05072005.html
Birth Pangs of a New Christian Zionismhttp://www.thenation.com/doc/20060814/new_christian_zionism
Christian Zionism: Terror in Jesus’ Namehttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/christian_zionism_terror_in_jesus_name1/
Christian Zionists: Mixing Prophecy and Politics http://csmonitor.com/2004/0707/p15s01-lire.html
Christian Zionists, Israel and the ‘ second coming’, Donald Wagnerhttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4930.htm
JOHN HAGEE Evangelist leads millions seeking ‘war with Islam’,  Alec Russellhttp://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/06/08/06/10058027.html  -  Hagee’s Armageddon Politics, Chip Berlet http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chip-berlet/pastor-hagees-armageddon_b_103161.html  - Hagee’s apocalyptic support of Israel, Ben Smithhttp://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10375.html
Holy Land churches condemn Christian Zionismhttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14789.htm
The Jerusalem Statement on Christian Zionism http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=94029
Jerusalem Countdown: Christian Zionists and the New Israeli Government, Bill Berkowitzhttp://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/religiousright/1204/jerusalem_countdown%3A_christian_zionists_and_the_new_israeli_government
Extremism in Israel Is Fueled By Growing Ultra-Orthodox Movement in the U.S. , Allan C. Brownfieldhttp://www.wrmea.com/backissues/010201/0101071.html
Understanding Christian Zionism Resource Pagehttp://www.publiceye.org/christian_right/zionism/coalition.html

DOMINIONISM:

Dominionism & Dominion Theology: The Theological Basis for American Theocracy
How george Bush Became the Head of the New Dominionist Church-State, Katherine Yuricahttp://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheDespoilingOfAmerica.htm 

EXTREMIST ORGANIZATIONS - CHRISTIAN:

Christian Coalition http://www.au.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5492&abbr=cs_
Christian Embassy http://www.therevealer.org/archives/timely_002761.php
CHRISTIANS UNITED FOR ISRAEL: New Christian Zionism Lobby Hopes to Rival AIPAChttp://www.democracynow.org/2006/8/15/christians_united_for_israel_new_christian - Rapture Ready: The Unauthorized Christians United for Israel Tour, Max Blumenthalhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/rapture-ready-the-unautho_b_57826.html  -  CUFI, Bill Moyers http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10052007/profile.html  - CUFI, Right Webhttp://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Christians_United_for_Israel  - Christians United for Israel and Attacking Iran,  Dedrick Muhammad and Farrah Hassen http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5471
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power,  Jeff Sharlethttp://www.amazon.com/Family-Secret-Fundamentalism-Heart-American/dp/0060560053/ref=pd_sim_b_4
Concerned Christians Cult http://www.religioustolerance.org/dc_conc.htm
COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY - see also The FELLOWSHIP - Vast Right Wing Cabal?http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/council_020501.html  -  Council for National Policyhttp://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Council_for_National_Policy - CNPhttp://www.rsicc.org/Links/CouncilforNationalPolicy/  - Unoffcial Information Pagehttp://www.buildingequality.us/ifas/cnp/index.html  - What is the CNPhttp://www.seekgod.ca/cnp.htm  - One World Christian Organizationhttp://www.cephasministry.com/conp.html  - The Council for National Policyhttp://watch.pair.com/cnp.html  - CNP http://rightweb.irc-online.org/groupwatch/cnp.php  - George Bush and the CNP http://www.tylwythteg.com/enemies/Bush/bush9.html
The FAMILY - Exposed: ‘C Street’ and The Military, Chris Roddahttp://pubrecord.org/religion/3427/exposed-street-military/
The FELLOWSHIP - see also Council for National Policy - Fellowship: Showing Faith in Discretionhttp://www.toobeautiful.org/lat_020927.html  - Fellowship Finances Townhouse Where 6 Congressmen Live http://www.tennessean.com/government/archives/03/04/31786118.shtml  - The Fellowship http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=The_Fellowship  - Jesus Plus Nothinghttp://www.harpers.org/JesusPlusNothing.html?pg=1  - Meet The Familyhttp://www.alternet.org/print.html?StoryID=16167  - Records of The Fellowship Foundationhttp://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/GUIDES/459.htm#1  - American Theocracy in Actionhttp://shock-awe.info/archive/000355.php  - Smoke, Mirrors and Disinformationhttp://watch.pair.com/cult-scp4.html  - Undercover Among America’s Secret Theocratshttp://www.guerrillanews.com/counter_intelligence/doc1760.html  - Maine Governor Lived in Fellowship House http://www.mainecommons.org/overflow/13-baldacci.htm  - Neighbors Up In Arms Over Secret Enclave http://www.rickross.com/reference/general/general607.html  - Sidestepping Pluralism http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2002/004/7.26.html
Does John Baldacci belong to a secretive, powerful, conservative Christian group?,http://www.portlandphoenix.com/features/top/ts_multi/documents/02877355.asp  - Right Wing Affiliations of Bush Administration Officials http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=6190  - Our Feurher Who Art in Heaven http://www.myirony.com/index.php?p=231
American Family Association
Children of God
Christian Identity Group
Christians United for Israel (CUFI), a newly formed political organization that tells its members that supporting Israel’s expansionist policies is “a biblical imperative
Ku Klux Klan
Jack Chick Organization
Christian Coalition
Courageous Christians United
The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSA) was a radical Christian Identity organization formed in 1971 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Covenant,_The_Sword,_and_the_Arm_of_the_Lord
Elohim City
The Family or The Fellowship
Focus on the Family, James Dobson
Greater Ministries International
Hutaree militiahttp://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/hate_rhetoric_is_escalating_into_violence/0018003
Kingdom Identity Ministries
Legion of Christ http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/secretive-catholic-order-founded-by-accused-pedophile-under-fire/19398262?icid=main|htmlws-main-n|dl1|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aolnews.com%2Fworld%2Farticle%2Fsecretive-catholic-order-founded-by-accused-pedophile-under-fire%2F19398262
National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools
National Prayer Network
Operation Christmas Child an Islam Bashing Charity
Operation Save America
The Order was the most violent and notorious domestic terrorist group of the 1980shttp://www.nizkor.org/hweb/orgs/american/adl/paranoia-as-patriotism/the-order.html
Reclaim Oklahoma for Christ http://www.loonwatch.com/2010/03/a-christian-stealth-jihad-in-the-united-states/
Revival Fire Ministries and the military http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/Gates_Letter.pdf
Values Action Team
Westboro Baptist Church (Fred Phelps)

EXTREMIST ORGANIZATIONS - JEWISH:

B’Nai Elim ,
Gush Emunim underground and [2],
Haganah,
Irgun,
JDL,
Jewish Task Force, Kach and Kahane Chai,
Lehi group,
Settler Terror Groups, Temple Mount Faithful
Stern Gang
Zionist Action Group

EXTREMIST RELIGIOUS VIEWS AND STATEMENTS - CHRISTIAN:

see the TAM article collections on Alarming Statements, for Islamophobic and hateful or extremist religious views or statements by Christian clergy and leaders, see the article Christian Brotherly Love Difficult For Some To Attain.
Christian Extremism, Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsoodhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/christian_extremism/
Christian Extremists Within the U.S. Military - Myth or Reality?, Habib Siddiquihttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/christian_extremists_within_the_us_military_myth_or_reality/ Christian Evangelicals and U.S. Foreign Policy http://www.cfr.org/publication/11341/
Christian Fundamentalism, the Global Crusade and Muslims, Yoginder Sikandhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/christian_fundamentalism_the_global_crusade_and_muslims/ Christian Fundamentalism, Mark Robinsonhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/christian_fundamentalism/
Christian fundamentalists are driving Bush’s Middle East policy, George Monbiothttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/apr/20/usa.uselections2004/print
Christian Holy Warriors Set Sights on Iran, Bill Berkowitz http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35896
A Christian jihad?, Khaled Diabhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a_christian_jihad/
Christian Jihad, Deborah Caldwell http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Christianity/2001/11/Christian-Jihad.aspx
Christian Militancy Corrodes American ideal, Mary Ellen Schoonmakerhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/christian_militancy_corrodes_american_ideal/Christian Rage and Muslim Moderation, Christopher Dickey http://www.newsweek.com/id/129237
Christian Zionism: An Egregious Threat to U.S. - Middle East Understanding, Council for the National Interesthttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/christian_zionism_an_egregious_threat_to_us_middle_east_understanding/ Christian Zionism: Terror in Jesus’ Name, Yoginder Sikandhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/christian_zionism_terror_in_jesus_name1/Christianity and War: Readings in the Age of Empire, Doug Bandow http://original.antiwar.com/doug-bandow/2008/05/02/christianity-and-war/
Christianity and the War, Laurence M. Vance http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance81.html
Stephen Colbert on Jesus rifles and Bible Grenades (video) http://rackjite.com/archives/4449-Stephen-Colbert-on-Jesus-rifles-and-Bible-Grenades.html
The Crusaders : “The Christian Taliban Is Running the Department of Defense”, Robert Koehlerhttp://www.truthout.org/article/robert-koehler-the-christian-taliban-is-running-department-defense
Dear Rightwing Catholic Islamophobes: Pope Francis just washed the feet of a Poor Muslim, Juan Colehttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/dear-rightwing-catholic-islamophobes-pope-francis-just-washed-the-feet-of-a
Do Bible Verses on Rifle Scopes Represent Christianity?, Sheila Musajihttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/bible_verses_on_rifle_scopes
Dove World Outreach Christian Center “Hate to the World”, “Burn a Qur’an”, Sheila Musajihttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/dove_world_outreach_christian_center_christmas_message_hate_to_the_wor
Eat, pray, hate: America’s own Taliban, Christopher Dickeyhttp://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/08/eat-pray-hate.html?from=rss
Extremist Christians Produce Anti-Muslim Film Blame Jews, Sheila Musajihttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/christians-produce-anti-muslim-film-blame-jews
The Evangelical Challenge: A New Face of Western Imperialism, Yoginder Sikandhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/christian_muslim_relations_part_4_the_evangelical_challenge_a_new_face_of_w/ Evangelical Christian missionaries embedded with American combat troops in Afghanistan, Mikey Weinsteinhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/evangelical_christian_missionaries_embedded_with_american_combat_troops_in_/ Evangelicals on the War Path, Yoginder Sikandhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/christian_muslim_relations_part_2_evangelicals_on_the_war_path/ Evangelist leads millions seeking ‘war with Islam’, Alec Russellhttp://gulfnews.com/news/world/usa/evangelist-leads-millions-seeking-war-with-islam-1.248744
Evangelizing Muslims and Jews: the New Crusade article collectionhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/evangelizing_muslims_and_jews_the_new_crusade/ The Faith of George W. Bush: Christian Supremacy, American Imperialism and Global Disaster, Yoginder Sikandhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_faith_of_george_w_bush_christian_supremacy_american_imperialism_and_glo/ For God and Our Father Abraham: Towards a More Inclusive Witness for Jews, Christians, and Muslims, D. Jason Berggrenhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/for_god_and_our_father_abraham_towards_a_more_inclusive_witness_for_jews_ch/
Free speech to counter hate speech - Dove World Outreach Center tee-shirt incident, Sheila Musajihttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/free_speech2/
Fulfilling Pamela Geller’s Request (to see hate speech from Jewish or Christian clergy equivalent to that of some Muslims) http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/pamela-gellers-request
Fundamentalist Christians and the War on Islam, Timothy Gattohttp://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_timothy__071209_fundamentalist_chris.htm
Fundamentalist Christian Anti-Islamic Movements in Germany: “Islamophobic – and Proud of It”, Claudia Mende http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/anti-islamic_movements_in_germany_islamophobic_and_proud_of_it
Hutaree Christian Militia, Not an Isolated Phenomena, Sheila Musajihttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/hutaree_christian_militia_not_an_isolated_phenomena
Is Boko Haram the Problem in Nigeria?, Ilishahttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/is-boko-haram-the-problem-in-nigeria
Is the Christian Right a Fascist Movement?, John W. Whiteheadhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/is_the_christian_right_a_fascist_movement/Jesus killed Mohammed: The crusade for a Christian military, Jeff Sharlethttp://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/05/0082488
The Return of Christian Terrorism, Mark Juergensmeyerhttp://religiondispatches.org/archive/religionandtheology/2432/the_return_of_christian_terrorism________/
Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, Michelle Goldberghttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13017.htm
Left Behind, ‘Convert or die’ game http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/12/12/MNG8TMU1KQ1.DTL
Missionaries’ war for souls raises Iraq tensionhttp://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/24/1079939714048.html
Muslim Violence, Christian Non-Violence: People in Glass Houses Should Not Throw Words, Sheila Musajihttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/muslim_violence_christian_non_violence_people_in_glass_houses_should_not_th/ The Neo-Crusaders, Neal AbuNabhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_neo_crusaders/
Not so fast, Christian soldiers, Mikey Weinstein and Reza Aslanhttp://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-oe-aslan22aug22,1,2971273.story?coll=la-news-a_section&ctrack=5&cset=true
Onward Christian Soldiers, Max Blumenthalhttp://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/04/15/in_touch/index.html
One Church’s Reasons to Hate Islam, Challenged by an Expert, Damien Cavehttp://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/one-churchs-reasons-to-hate-islam-challenged-by-an-expert/
The Public Face of Christian Evangelical Bigotry, Muqtedar Khan, Ph.D.http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_public_face_of_christian_evangelical_bigotry/ Relative Violence in Islam and Christianity, Nick Gierhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/relative_violence_in_islam_and_christianity/Soldiers inAfghanistan given Bibles, told to “hunt people for Jesus”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/04/soldiers-in-afghanistan-g_n_195674.html
Sticks and Stones May Provoke Others to Break My Bones, James Zogbyhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/sticks_and_stones_may_provoke_others_to_break_my_bones
Taking the Prince of Peace Seriously, Thomas E. Woods, Jr.http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods107.html
The Tenth Crusade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Crusade
Video Proves Proselytization Rampant at U.S. Military Bases, Mikey Weinsteinhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/video_proves_proselytization_rampant_at_us_military_bases/ The war against Islam, James Carrollhttp://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/06/07/the_war_against_islam/ Witness for Jesus in Afghanistan http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22544.htm
Violence in Christian Theology http://www.crosscurrents.org/weaver0701.htm
The War of Jesus and Allah, Neal AbuNabhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_war_of_jesus_and_allah/
Who’s taking the blame for Christian violence? http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0726-32.htm

EXTREMIST RELIGIOUS VIEWS AND STATEMENTS - JEWISH:

See the article Jewish “Ahavah shel achvah” Brotherly Love is Difficult for Some to Attain for Islamophobic, and hateful or extremist religious views or statements by Jewish clergy and leaders. 

FUNDAMENTALISM:

[1] (Ali Ansari), 
Accounting for Fundamentalisms: The Dynamic Character of Movements (The Fundamentalism Project), Martin E. Marty http://www.amazon.com/Accounting-Fundamentalisms-Character-Movements-Fundamentalism/dp/0226508862/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b 
Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, David Hirst http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040216&s=hirst 
The Clash of the Fundamentalists, Anisa Abd el Fattahhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_clash_of_the_fundamentalists/  2007
Fundamentalism and Terrorism, Asghar Ali Engineerhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/fundamentalism_and_terrorism/ 2003 
Fundamentalist Christians and the War on Islam, Timothy Gattohttp://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_timothy__071209_fundamentalist_chris.htm 2007
Fundamentalism and Islam, Shahid Akhtarhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/fundamentalism_and_islam/  2007
Fundamentals and Fundamentalism: A Parting of the Ways in Islam, Shaykh Ahmed Abdur Rashidhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/fundamentals_and_fundamentalism_a_parting_of_the_ways_in_islam/  2002
Fundamentals of Fundamentalism, Ziauddin Ahmedhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/fundamentals_of_fundamentalism/ 2007 
Fundamentalism and Violence, Dr. Khalid Sohailhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/fundamentalism_and_violence/ 2007
Fundamentalism, Corporations & Globalization, John M. Kelleyhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/fundamentalism_corporations_globalization/  2005
Israel’s Dangerous Fundamentalists, Ian S. Lustickhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/israels_dangerous_fundamentalists/  2005
Neo Fundamentalism, Olivier Roy http://www.ssrc.org/sept11/essays/roy.htm 
SOME FUNDAMENTALISTS ACHE FOR ARMAGEDDON, Allan C. Brownfeldhttp://www.iraqwar.org/fundamentalists.htm 1987 The ties between Christian fundamentalism in the United States and Jewish fundamentalism in Israel are growing rapidly, with potentially serious consequences for U.S.-Middle East policy and for the people of that troubled region. 
This Is A Religious War, Andrew Sullivan http://www.4religious-right.info/Fundamentalism_NewYorktijmes_Mag.html 
The Unannounced Reason Behind American Fundamentalism’s Support for the State of Israel, Gary Northhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_unannounced_reason_behind_american_fundamentalisms_support_for_the_stat/  2002
US Christian fundamentalists are driving Bush’s Middle East policy, George Monbiothttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/apr/20/usa.uselections2004/print  2004

HINDU EXTREMISM:

- Anti-Christian violence in India see Claim that all Terrorists are Muslims Ignores History for a long list of Hindu terrorism
-Hindu Terrorism - Just The Tip Won’t Do: Expose The Whole Iceberg, By Kavita Krishnanhttp://www.countercurrents.org/krishna291008.htm 

HOLY WAR/ CRUSADES - MILITARY & RELIGION - U.S:

- America as a Jihad State: Middle Eastern Perceptions of American Theopolitics, Abdal Hakim Muradhttp://acommonword.com/en/a-common-word/11-new-fruits-of-a-common-word/296-america-as-a-jihad-state-middle-eastern-perceptions-of-modern-american-theopolitics.html
- Christian fundamentalist leader calls for global war, Yoginder Sikand
http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/through_the_looking_glass_american_christian_fundamentalist_leader_calls_fo/
- Bible Thumping War Drums, Les Payne http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0309-01.htm
- Dobson, Armageddon, and Foreign Policy, Andrew Sullivanhttp://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/05/dobson_armagedd.html
- Documents from Rumsfeld Pentagon mixing religion and warhttp://men.style.com/gq/features/topsecret
- Evangelism and the military http://mojoey.blogspot.com/2007/08/evangelism-in-military.html
- Evangelizing Muslims (and Jews)- New Crusade - article collectionhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/evangelizing_muslims_and_jews_the_new_crusade/
- God’s basic training comes under fire http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,158531,00.html
- Military Evangelism Deeper, Wider Than First Thought,  Jason Leopoldhttp://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/122207Leopold.shtml
- Not so fast, Christian soldiers, Mikey Weinstein and Reza Aslanhttp://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-oe-aslan22aug22,1,2971273.story?coll=la-news-a_section&ctrack=5&cset=true
-  Video, Report Details Evangelism at Highest Levels of US Military, Jason Leopoldhttp://www.nonesoblind.org/blog/?p=804
- Inquiry Sought Over Evangelical Video http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/10/AR2006121000883.html
- Jesus killed Mohammed: The crusade for a Christian military, Jeff Sharlethttp://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/05/0082488
- America’s Holy Warriors, Chris Hedges,http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20061231_chris_hedges_americas_holy_warriors/
- Christian Extremists Within the U.S. Military - Myth or Reality?, Habib Siddiquihttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/christian_extremists_within_the_us_military_myth_or_reality/  2009
- Christian Embassy video http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=45a_1197982712
- Caught on Tape: Military Officials at Bagram Urge U.S. Soldiers to Evangelize in Afghanistanhttp://www.alternet.org/blogs/waroniraq/139686/caught_on_tape:_military_officials_at_bagram_urge_u.s._soldiers_to_evangelize_in_afghanistan/
- This week in God, Evangelism and the U.S. Militaryhttp://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_05/018101.php
- “Spiritual Warfare” in the Military http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_fundamentalist_051309
- Group Trains Air Force Cadets to Proselytize http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/11/AR2005111101650.html
- Report urges action against Gen. Boykin for religious speecheshttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/04/politics/04boykin.html?_r=2
- Infiltrating the U.S. Military: Gen. Boykin’s “Kingdom Warriors” On the Road to Abu Ghraib and Beyond, Katherine Yuricahttp://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/InfiltratingTheUSMilitaryGenBoykinsWarriors.html
- General Casts War in Religious Terms http://articles.latimes.com/2003/oct/16/nation/na-general16
- Faith Force Multipliers http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1006030,00.html
- Afghanistan “hunt people for Jesus” videohttp://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/Media_video/al_jazeera/index.html
- Crusaders At the Gates http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/05/12/news-arellano2.php
- The Crusaders : “The Christian Taliban Is Running the Department of Defense”, Robert Koehlerhttp://www.truthout.org/article/robert-koehler-the-christian-taliban-is-running-department-defense
Conspiracy Theorist Military Chaplains Promote Anti-American Militia Activity, Chris Roddahttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-rodda
Christian Fundamentalism, the Global Crusade and Muslims , Yoginder Sikandhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/christian_fundamentalism_the_global_crusade_and_muslims/ 2008
Soldiers inAfghanistan given Bibles, told to “hunt people for Jesus”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/04/soldiers-in-afghanistan-g_n_195674.html
Tenth Crusade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Crusade

HOLY WAR/ MILHEMET MITZVAH - MILITARY & RELIGION - ISRAEL:

(Hebrew: מלחמת מצווה, “commandment war”) refers to a war that is both obligatory for all Jews (men and women) and limited to territory within the borders of the land of Israel. The geographical limits of Israel, and therefore of this religious war, are detailed in the Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible, especially Numbers 34:1-15 and Ezekiel 47:13-20.
A Religious War in Israel’s Army http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/weekinreview/22BRONNER.html?_r=1  and http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/22/a-religious-war-heats-up_n_177715.html
An Army of Extremists: How some military rabbis are trying to radicalize Israeli soldiers, Christopher Hitchens http://www.slate.com/id/2214440?wpisrc=newsletter
An IDF Jihad?, Jonathan Cook http://www.counterpunch.org/cook02042009.html
Religious right in the Israeli army issues extremist pamphlet to soldiershttp://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2009/07/09/Religious-groups-infiltrate-Israeli-army/UPI-90541247167273/
Israeli army “subcontracted” by extremist settlers, Jonathan Cook http://www.ceia-sc.org/page3/page64/page64.html
Israeli army commander explained the mission of the military as “We are the Jewish people. We came to this land by a miracle. God brought us back to this land and now we need to fight to expel the Gentiles who are interfering with our conquest of this holy land.”http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/11063-religious-fundamentalism-in-israel.html
Israeli Soldiers Say Army Rabbis Framed Gaza as Religious Warhttp://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/03/21
The rise of Israel’s military rabbis – theocracy with guns?http://eideard.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/the-rise-of-israel%E2%80%99s-military-rabbis-%E2%80%93-theocracy-with-guns/
Rabbi Yisrael Rosen said “All of the Palestinians must be killed; men, women, infants, and even their beasts.” He is director of the Tsomet Institute, a long-established religious institute attended by students and soldiers in the Israeli settlements of the West Bank.http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/892/re72.htm
Abraham Yoffe, a former Israeli Army general and a founder of the Movement for the Whole Land of Israel, ’‘the will of the people is expressed in war. That is the whole Torah.’‘ http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/23/books/israel-s-other-war.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
Vatican teaching Hezbollah how to kill Jews, says pamphlet for IDF troopshttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1101158.html

HONOR CRIMES & KILLINGS:

CHRISTIAN, HINDU, SIKH, MUSLIM, JEWISH etc. (cultural, not religious phenomenon)
- Rabbi Shlomo Arar - His wife, daughter and son were arrested by Tel Aviv police after they allegedly kidnapped a 17-year-old religious youth whom the rabbi’s daughter was dating (honor crime)http://jewishwhistleblower.blogspot.com/2005/05/son-wife-and-daughter-of-israeli.html
- Rabbi Fred J. Neulander of New York arrested for murdering his wifehttp://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9503E0DA1730F93BA2575AC0A96E958260
- Hindu and Sikh Honor Killings http://www.lehigh.edu/~amsp/2004/10/githa-hariharan-honor-killings-still.html
- Hindu Honor Killings http://dcubed.blogspot.com/2005/10/question-of-dishonour.html
- In June of 2005 a Christian Palestinian girl was killed by her family for wanting to marry a Muslim boy
- In October of 2003, a Sikh girl from Vancouver, B.C. was killed on the orders of her mother and uncle because she had run away to marry a man of her own choice.  In August of 2006 a young Sikh couple were both killed for eloping.
- Jewish Honor Killing of Rabbi’s Daughter http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1399287/posts
- One out of 10 British Asians interviewed in a poll of 500 Hindus, Sikhs, Christians and Muslims surveyed by the BBC’s Asian Network radio said they would condone the murder of someone who disrespected their family’s honour.
- Palestinian Christian Honor Killinghttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4522465.stm
- Sikh Honor Killing http://cities.expressindia.com/archivefullstory.php?newsid=152067&creation_date=2005-10-08

RAPTURE:

Behold the Rapture http://www.economist.com/World/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1291227
Rapture Factor, Deborah Caldwell http://www.beliefnet.com/story/106/story_10687_1.html - Behold the Rapture http://www.economist.com/World/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1291227 - Foreign Policy of 20 Million Would Be Immortals by Gary North http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north188.html
Reckoning with the God Squad, Bill Moyers http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Moyers/God_Squad.html
Forcing God’s Hand: Why Millions Pray for a Quick Rapture ... and Destruction of Planet Earth, Grace Halsell http://www.amazon.com/Forcing-Gods-Hand-Millions-Destruction/dp/1590080157/ref=pd_sim_b_1
The Foreign Policy of 20 Million Would-Be Immortals, Gary Northhttp://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north188.html
LEFT BEHIND Book Series:  Review of the “Left Behind” Tribulation Novels: Turner Diaries Lite,  Edmund D. Cohen http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/cohen_21_2.html  -  Review by Douglas Winterhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/books/reviews/leftbehind0912.htm  -  Left Behind Review from Lutheran Witness http://www.lcms.org/pages/internal.asp?NavID=14739  - -Armageddon Fiction Grips the U.S. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2670591.stm  -  -Bad Fiction, Bad Faith http://christianity.about.com/cs/adultchristianity/a/leftbehind.htm  - Christian Bookstore Won’t Stock Latest Left Behind Book http://www.beliefnet.com/story/144/story_14412_1.html  - Fundamentally Unsound http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/07/29/left_behind/  - Jesus and Jihad http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/4/5291  -Left Your Brain Behind?http://www.ship-of-fools.com/Features/frameit.htm?0703/left_behind.html  - Lights, Camera, Christians http://www.thedailypage.com/going-out/movies/reviews/movieReview.php?intReviewID=276  - The 12th Coming of Less Than Glorious Fictionhttp://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.asp?ref=/comment/olson200404020904.asp  - Rise of the Righteous Army http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/05/60minutes/main598218.shtml

Regent University and the Bush Administrationhttp://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/04/08/scandal_p

uts_spotlight_on_christian_law_school/?page=1 

RED HEIFER:

Red Heifer: How Religious Nutballs Could Start WWIII, Justin Raimondohttp://www.antiwar.com/justin/j041502.html - Red Heifer and the Third Templehttp://www.nationalreview.com/dreher/dreher040502.asp - Red Heifer, Holy Cow?, Chuck Misslerhttp://www.khouse.org/articles/prophetic/19970701-15.html - Red Heifer Born in Israelhttp://www.templeinstitute.org/current-events/RedHeifer/ - Red Heifer Cloninghttp://www.yfiles.com/ashes1.html - Red Heifer Mystery http://www.templemount.org/heifer.html - Red Heifer Days http://www.nationalreview.com/dreher/dreher041102.asp  - Messianic Jews & the Red Heifer, http://middleeastinfo.org/article475.html

RELIGION AND EXTREMISM - GENERAL:

- Karen Armstrong: How Religious Movements Prolong the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Carlton Cobb, CNI Staff Member,http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/karen_armstrong_how_religious_movements_prolong_the_arab_israeli_conflict/
- Faith Based Violence and Religious Zealotry, Salim Muwwakil,http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/2002sept_comments.php?id=101_0_14_0_C
- Has Anybody Seen My Old Friend God?, Sheila Samples http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=16582
- Hating in the Name of God, Benjamin Radfordhttp://www.secularhumanism.org/library/aah/radford_10_3.htm
- Holocaust Deniers and the Iraq Study Group http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story-122006122942.htm
- Religion and the War Against Evil, Harvey Cox http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011224&s=cox&c=1
- Inexcusable Tolerance for Religious Extremism in America, Fedwa Wazwaz,http://www.counterpunch.org/wazwaz1010.html
- Intra and Inter-Religious Hate and Violence, Linda Woolf & Michael Heilsizer,http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/againsthate/Journal2/GHS106.PDF
- Is the Solution the Problem, Neale Walsch,http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/index.cfm/action/tikkun/issue/tik0307/article/030712d.html
- Religion and Logic Often Go Their Separate Ways, Raff Ellis http://yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1796&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
- Religious Bigotry Then and Now, Gary Leupp http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp1209.html
- Religious Extremism http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week506/perspectives.html
- Religious Insanity Runs Rampant, Wayne Madsenhttp://www.counterpunch.org/madsen10222003.html
- Religious Persecution in Europe: Focus on Muslims, Muslim Women’s League,http://www.mwlusa.org/presentations/speech_persec.html
- Religious Terrorism -http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/claim_that_all_terrorists_are_muslims_ignores_history/0012587
- Todays Special on the Menu of Hate, John Liechty, http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0711-07.htm
- VIDEO: How Religious are Religious Extremists - part 1 http://youtube.com/watch?v=R0dM5_fsHmQ
Which is the extremist threat in America: Muslims or Islamophobes, Shahed Amanullah,http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/which_is_the_extremist_threat_in_america_muslims_or_islamophobes/
- Violence in the name of God

RELIGIOUS RIGHT:

- Political Mobilization of the New Christian Right http://are.as.wvu.edu/lebeau1.htm
- Religious Right FAQ http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/rr/blfaq_rr_index.htm
- Religious Right and the Old South http://www.sullivan-county.com/nf0/fundienazis/right_south.htm
- Religious Right Relishing Road Maps Collapse http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=16028
- Religious Right - Roots, Eqbal Ahmedhttp://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Library/9803/eqbal_ahmad/eqbal_roots_religious.html
- Religious Right Wants America, John Swomley http://archive.aclu.org/issues/religion/relig3.html
- Pat Robertson http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/rr/blfaq_rr_robert_index.htm
-  Schroeder Suspicious of Bush’s Religious Emphasis http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusintl/ap10-21-151848.asp?reg=europe&vts=102120061539
- This Is A Religious War, Andrew Sullivan http://www.4religious-right.info/Fundamentalism_NewYorktijmes_Mag.html
- Chris Turgeon, A Killing in God’s Name
- U.S. Hires Christian Extremists to Produce Arabic News Program,http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15801
- VIDEO: Jesus Camp Documentary Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_EKHK1C2IE
- VIDEO: Robin Myers on the Christian Right http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLhHzbnHAOM
- Violence in Christian Theology http://www.crosscurrents.org/weaver0701.htm
- The War of Jesus and Allah, Neal AbuNabhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_war_of_jesus_and_allah/
- Who’s taking the blame for Christian violence? http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0726-32.htm
- Violence in Christian Theology, J. Denny Weaver

SANTERIA EXTREMISM:

- Exorcism kills teenage girl http://www.meta-religion.com/New_religious_groups/crime_religion/VoodooSan/vivian_miranda.htm

SEPARATION OF CHURCH & STATE/ DEMOCRACY OR THEOCRACY? - AMERICA - CHRISTIANS:

SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE - article collectionhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/separation_of_church_and_state/
America: A Christian Nation?:  [1]
American Family Association Asks Supporters to Make Bible Only Book Allowed for Swearing Inhttp://www.afa.net/aa112806_2.asp
American Theocracy, Who is Trying to Turn America Into a Theocracy? http://www.brucegourley.com/christiannation/theocracy.htm
AU Asks Congress to Remove Extremists from Faith-Based Summit’s Religious Advisory Committee,http://www.commondreams.org/news2001/0417-11.htm
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, Chris Hedgeshttp://www.amazon.com/American-Fascists-Christian-Right-America/dp/B001O9CBAI/ref=pd_sim_b_7
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century, Kevin Phillips http://www.amazon.com/American-Theocracy-Politics-Religion-Borrowed/dp/067003486X
GEORGE BUSH:  - Bush and Religion: Anti-Christian, Polarizing and Ugly, Jim Lowerhttp://www.opednews.com/lower031504_bush_religion.htm  - Bush Campaign Requests Church Rosters for campaign purposes http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/elections/article.adp?id=20040701193109990003  - Bush Goes to War With Modernity, Sidney Blumenthalhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1161399,00.html  - Bush Puts God On His Side, Tim Carver http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2921345.stm  - Bush Says God Chose Him to Lead This Nation, Paul Harris http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1076026,00.html  - Bush Sees Terror War as Religious http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37676  - Bush Talking More About Religion http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/02/18/bush.faith/  - Bush the Evangelist http://bushwatch.org/evangelist.htm  - Bush’s Religious Beliefshttp://www.tylwythteg.com/enemies/Bush/bush19.html  - Bush’s Christian Nation, Chris Mooneyhttp://www.prospect.org/print/V14/6/mooney-c.html  - Bush’s Crusade, Robert Parryhttp://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/092501a.html  - Bush’s Crusade: Where Is It Headed?http://www.rosbaltnews.com/2002/10/12/50212.html  - Bush’s Crusade on Common Sense, David Soriano http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/08/13_crusade.html  - Bush’s Crusade Mentality Creates Unease http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/5341245.htm  - Bush’s Theology: Does President Believe He Has Divine Mandate?, Deborah Caldwellhttp://pewforum.org/news/display.php?NewsID=1994  - Bush: God told me to invade Iraq, Rupert Cornwell http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bush-god-told-me-to-invade-iraq-509925.html  - Bush White House checked with rapture Christians before latest Israel move, Rick Perlstein http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-05-11/news/the-jesus-landing-pad/  - Bush’s Religious Language, Juan Stam http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20031222&s=stam  - Bush’s Armageddon Obsession, Revisited, Michael Ortiz Hill http://www.counterpunch.org/hill01042003.html  - Bush’s Religious Language, Juan Stam http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20031222&s=stam - The Faith of George W. Bush: Christian Supremacy, American Imperialism and Global Disasterhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_faith_of_george_w_bush_christian_supremacy_american_imperialism_and_glo/
Christian Evangelicals and U.S. Foreign Policy http://www.cfr.org/publication/11341/
Christian Nationalism http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/5/11/151212/239
Culture, Religion, Apocalypse, and Middle East Foreign Policy, Chip Berlet & Nikhil Azizhttp://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/articles/display/Culture_Religion_Apocalypse_and_Middle_East_Foreign_Policy
Dangerous Religion: Theology of Empire, Jim Wallace http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj0309&article=030910
DeLay Says Judea and Samaria (West Bank) Belong to Israelhttp://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002/04/24/aipac.htm
How the GOP Became ‘God’s Own Party’ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/01/AR2006040100004_pf.html
Inhofe’s Pro Apocolypse Foreign Policy http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5489
Israeli Children Sign Missiles With Love
The Four Fundamentalisms and the Threat to Sustainable Democracy, Robert Jensenhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_four_fundamentalisms_and_the_threat_to_sustainable_democracy/  2006
The New American Theocracy, Paul Kurtz http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Secular-Philosophies/The-New-American-Theocracy.aspx
Of God and Man In the Oval Office, Fritz Ritsch http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A19122-2003Feb28̬Found=true
On a Mission From God’: The Religious Right and the Emerging American Theocracy, Maureen Farrellhttp://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/03/far04007.html
The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party http://www.theocracywatch.org/

SEPARATION OF CHURCH & STATE/ DEMOCRACY OR THEOCRACY? -  ISRAEL - JEWS:

See the article Jewish “Ahavah shel achvah” Brotherly Love is Difficult for Some to Attain for Islamophobic, and hateful or extremist religious views or statements by Jewish clergy and political leaders.
A new law in Israel makes it a crime to commemorate what Palestinians call the “Nakba”, the “catastrophe” of their dispossession by the creation of the Zionist state in 1948.http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/2010/02/new-israeli-law-forbids-palestinians-from-mourning-or-showing-signs-of-sadness/
Israeli Law Barring Palestinian Spouses from Citizenship http://www.adc.org/index.php?id=2065
Arab Ban Proposed in Jewish Areas http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2115857.stm
IDF Tee-shirts Dead Palestinian babies and bombed mosques - IDF fashion 2009http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072466.html
IDF troops film themselves humiliating bound Palestinianhttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1035088.html
Israel, Mixed Marriages in a Jewish State http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=24811
Israel denies entry to Muslim wife of Jewish Iranian immigranthttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/848044.html
Israel is NOT and Never was a Democracy, Eileen Fleminghttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/israel_is_not_and_never_was_a_democracy/
Israeli Passport Stamp Limits Bearers to Palestinian Authority Territories, Sheila Musajihttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/israeli_passport_stamp_limits_bearers_to_palestinian_authority_territories/
Israel and theocracy http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Politics/theocracy.html
Israel Bans Family Reunification for Spouses of Arab Israeli Citizenshttp://www.islamonline.net/english/Views/2003/09/article01.shtml
Israel: New Israeli Cabinet Minister Calls for Total Segregationhttp://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2006/11/05/2242720-ap.html
Israeli Democracy, For Jews Only? http://www.counterpunch.org/karkar04252007.html
Israel’s Dangerous Fundamentalists, Ian Lustickhttp://www.geocities.com/alabasters_archive/dangerous_fundamentalists.html
Israel’s Democracy Dilemma, http://www.amconmag.com/11_3_03/feature.html
Israel’s Democracy On Trial, http://www.rnw.nl/hotspots/html/isr021230.html
Israel’s Foes as ‘Beasts and Insects’ http://www.counterpunch.org/dasgupta07292006.html
Israel’s Discriminatory Practices Rooted in Jewish Law (halakha), Israel Shahakhttp://wrmea.com/Washington-Report_org/www/backissues/0795/9507018.htm
Israeli Democracy: Fact or Fiction? William Cook http://www.counterpunch.org/cook01252003.html
Israel Discovers That Democracy Is Not an Israeli Valuehttp://electronicintifada.net/v2/article1512.shtml
Israeli Housing Minister: “Spread of Arab population must be stopped”http://mondoweiss.net/2009/07/what-are-those-values-that-the-us-and-israel-share-again.html
Israel’s ‘Modesty Buses’ for orthodox women http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6584661.stm and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6584661.stm - ‘Modesty patrols’ in Haredim neighbourhoods have started a vigilante movement that targets those who fail to live up to their moral lawshttp://www.jkcook.net/Articles2/0330.htm
Israeli Expert Says No Peace Possible With Muslim World Everhttp://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3304024,00.html
Jewish & Muslim Religious Extremists Threaten Peace, Allan Brownfeldhttp://www.wrmea.com/backissues/0199/9901078.html
Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, David Hirst http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040216&s=hirst
Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Israel Shahak http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/jewhis1.htm
Rabbi Meir Kahane founder of Kach and Kahane Chai terrorist organizations still won a seat on the Israeli Knesset http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/kahane.html  His suporters praised the Gaza massacre http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2005-08/18/article01.shtml and called the killings at Bein Hanoun in Gaza in which 18 Palestinians were killed “holy”. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3326400,00.html
Let’s face the facts, Israel is a semi-theocracy , Gideon Levyhttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1134047.html
Rabbi Dov Lior, Top Yesha rabbi issues a halakhic ruling saying that Jewish law forbids renting houses to Arabs or employing them http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/966208.html
Rabbi Yona Metzger wants to move the Gazans to Sinai.  This would amount to ethnic cleansing. http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/a_chief_rabbi_with_a_brilliant_idea_and_a_holy_place_envy/
Olmert Says Israel’s Goal Is to Ensure a Jewish Majority http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3248515,00.html
Ariel Sharon: Messenger of Messianic Apocalypsehttp://www.beliefnet.com/story/56/story_5673_1.html

SIKH EXTREMISM:

- India Babar Khalsa - Sikh
- India Dal Khalsa - Sikh
- India Khalistan Zindabad Force - Sikh
- Terrorists bring down Air India flight 182 - Sikh

TEMPLE MOUNT MOVEMENT TO REBUILD THIRD TEMPLE:

- Temple Mount Faithful Movement http://www.templemountfaithful.org/Events/pesach2003.htm - Struggle for the Temple Mount, http://www.meforum.org/article/10 - Trouble on the Temple Mounthttp://www.prospect.org/print/V12/2/platt-l.html - Rebuilding the Jewish Temple in Christian Zionismhttp://www.virginiawater.co.uk/christchurch/articles/temple.htm - Temple in Jerusalemhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Temple
Temple Mount Faithful, Jewish Extremists Try to Lay Cornerstone for ‘Third Temple’ at Temple Mounthttp://www.mt.net/~watcher/cornerstone.html  -  Temple Mount Israel’s Security Minister has warned that right-wing Jews are intending to attack the Temple Mount, the most religiously sensitive site in the Middle East. 

TERRORISM, VIOLENCE, AND EXTREMIST ACTIONS BY CHRISTIANS, JEWS, BUDDHISTS, SIKHS, HINDUS, etc.:

see the article collection Claim that all terrorists are Muslims ignores history

WMD’s - Israel PM Admits That Israel Has Nuclear Weapons and the U.S. is aware of this.  - VIDEO:Israel’s Secret Nuclear Weapons

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ADDITIONAL ARTICLES THAT HAVE NOT YET BEEN PUT INTO CATEGORIES:

Abraham’s Tomb [1]
AFDI/SIOA/SIOE/SION/EDL/BF Leadership: Arrests & Scandals, Sheila Musajihttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/afdi-sion-sioa-sioe-board-members
Anti-Arab racism and incitement in Israel, Ali Abunimah http://imeu.net/news/article008265.shtml
Anti-Jewish, Anti-Gay Comic Book Distributed By U.S. Military Chaplains?, Bruce Wilsonhttp://www.talk2action.org/story/2013/1/6/232210/2079/

Christian Extremist Zealots on the Loose http://thesouthsucks.blogspot.com/2006/06/christian-extremist-zealots-on-loose.html
Christian Holy Warriors Set Sights on Iran http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35896
Christian Right and Islamo Fascism http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20060814&articleId=2955
Christian fundamentalism, Mark Robinsonhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/christian_fundamentalism/ 2007
Christian Extremism, Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsoodhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/christian_extremism/  2002
Christian Right, Grant Wacker http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/tserve/twenty/tkeyinfo/chr_rght.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_right
Rachel Corie film muzzled by Jewish Film Festival sponsorshttp://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/26/757582/-Muzzling-Jewish-Dissent.-Art-as-a-tool-of-liberation.-
Covert Kingdom, Joe Bageant http://www.counterpunch.org/bageant05252004.html
Direst of Predictions for War in Iraq http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A58894-2003Mar7̬Found=true
Evangelical Group Awards Islamophobic Pastor With Reward for Faithfulness to Scripturehttp://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=24867
Evangelicals Financing Immigrant Settlements in Israel http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/07/10/MN17001.DTL
Evangelicals and Jews Together, Rod Dreher http://www.nationalreview.com/dreher/dreher040502.asp
Evangelicals Stir New Animosity Towards Islam,http://natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2003b/060603/060603t.htm
Jerry Falwell’s Folly http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/vance6.html
God Is Starting to Scare Me, Jack Ballinger http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Mar04/Ballinger0311.htm
God Save America, John Sutherland http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1208414,00.html
Gov. Bush Spreads Religion in Florida Prisons http://blog.au.org/2004/04/captive_audienc.html
The God Squad, Christopher Hitchens http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020415/hitchens
Gog and Magog: the False Prophetic Underpinnings for Warhttp://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/40437
How religious movements prolong the Israel-Palestine controversyhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/karen_armstrong_how_religious_movements_prolong_the_arab_israeli_conflict/
Hudna or Apocalypse: A Tipping Point for Palestine?, Dr. Robert D. Cranehttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/hudna_or_apocalypse_a_tipping_point_for_palestine/  2007
Influence of the Christian Right, Steven Zunes http://www.iviews.com/Articles/articles.asp?ref=FF0406-2367
Interfaith Dialogue Issues - article collectionhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/interfaith_dialogue_issues/
Intolerance and the Christian Right, Bishop Shelby Spong http://www.sullivan-county.com/identity/intol_right.htm
“Judaeo-Christian” Values? http://www.notinkansas.us/monkeys.html
Keep Cal Thomas Away From Your Kids, Ahmed Amr http://www.mediamonitors.net/amr41.html
MEDIA - How evangelical Christians are creating an alternative universe of faith-based news,  Mariah Blake http://www.theocracywatch.org/station_cjr_may_05.htm
Muslim and Jewish Religious Extremists Threaten Peacehttp://www.wrmea.com/backissues/0199/9901078.html
Neo-Cons and Zionist Christianity, Jaafar Hadi Hassan, http://english.daralhayat.com/opinion/10-2003/Article-20031024-6de97812-c0a8-01ed-002a-cc146034f838/story.html
New Radical Religious Right http://www.buildingequality.us/ifas/fw/9011/newright.html
New scrutiny of role of religion in Bush’s policies, Jane Lampmanhttp://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0317/p01s01-uspo.html
Nigeria’s Latest Flashpoint: Religion http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/652118.stm
The War of Jesus and Allahhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_war_of_jesus_and_allah/
Our Evangelist President http://www.thenation.com/edcut/index.mhtml?pid=597
Oxygen for Radical Islam’s Fire, Zuhdi Jasserhttp://www.azcentral.com/specials/special08/columns/articles/0204jasser0204thomas.html
On the Road to Armageddon - How evangelicals became Israel’s best friendhttp://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Christianity/End-Times/On-The-Road-To-Armageddon.aspx
Radical Religious Right http://atheism.about.com/library/weekly/aa020399.htm
Regent University and the Bush Administrationhttp://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/04/08/scandal_puts_spotlight_on_christian_law_school/?page=1
Sacralisation of the Middle East Conflict, Joseph Croitoruhttp://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/sacralisation_of_the_middle_east_conflict/  2009
There is no tomorrow, Bill Moyers http://www.spinwatch.org/latest-news-mainmenu-10/150-climate-change/668-there-is-no-tomorrow