Christian Al-Quaida????

Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea

On March 22, 2007, the Burlington Township High School conducted a mock terror drill using Right Wing Christian Fundamentalists as the terrorists. The scenario revolved around a family attacking the school after their daughter was expelled for praying before class. Disturbed by the fictional scenario, many Christian students went home and complained to their parents.

In the mock terror drill, the gunmen, portrayed by two Burlington Township police detectives, were members of a right wing fundamentalist group called the "New Crusaders". This group supposedly didn't support the separation of church and state and had entered the school, shot some students and took over the school's media center because one of their daughters had been expelled for praying before class.

Many sources are highly irate about this mock terror drill, stating that using "Christian" fundamentalists, instead of Islamic terrorists, makes no sense. The school Superintendent, Chris Manno, worked with Burlington Township Police Department to come up with the strange scenario for the mock terror drill. "You perform as you practice," Superintendent Chris Manno said prior to the exercise. "We need to practice under conditions as real as possible in order to evaluate our procedures and plans so that they're as effective as possible." Considering the fact that prayer before class is protected by the Constitution, the basis of the scenario was completely unrealistic.

Is it really so unrealistic? Given that there is a group of Christians out there that subscribe to the heretical doctrines of dominion theology and Christian Reconstructionism (as led by Rousas Rushdoony, Gary North and others) and want to establish a Christian theocracy in America, given that there have been some so-called Christians who have advocated the murder of abortionists, and given that some of the militia-type groups in the United States claim to be Christian, is it really so unrealistic?